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No Man's Sky

Original title: No Man's Sky - August 9, 2016
No Man's Sky
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Director:David Ream
Studio:Hello Games
Stars:Rutger Hauer
Soundtrack:No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe — 65daysofstatic (2016); tracks include 'Monolith', 'Supermoon', 'Asimov' and 'Heliosphere', and the band's material also drives the game's generative music engine
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The Game Awards
Game
The Game Awards − Most Anticipated Game
Winner
2015
Award
Game
British Academy Games Award for British Game
Nominee
2017

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Game Details
DeveloperIGDB
Hello Games
Publisher
Hello Games
Studio
Hello Games
Genres
Adventure, Indie, Action, RPG, Simulation, Massively Multiplayer
Platforms
PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Release Date
August 9, 2016
Metacritic ScoreMetacritic
71
Game Engine
Proprietary (Hello Games in-house engine)

No Man's Sky is a space action-adventure survival game developed by Hello Games. The overall visual style of the game is inspired by various science fiction books. Demoscene also served as a source of inspiration for the developers. The main feature that the game revolves around is the procedural generation. Each planet you visit is generated from scratch. The information about the planets and their inhabitants is dynamically updated so every player can discover a new species or planet and give it a name. No Man's Sky gameplay implies the exploration of space and planets some of which are inhabited with extra-terrestrial life, gathering resources, space battles, maintaining and upgrading the player's ship and completing bounty hunting missions. The main objective is to reach the center of the galaxy. On release, it was stated that the game is in fact multiplayer, but the size of its world is so big that the probability of meeting another player is extremely small. It turned out that it is impossible to meet any other player due to the extremely limited multiplayer aspect. As of 2018, Hello Games released the fourth major update which included the full multiplayer experience.

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Last updated: 10.07.2026
Business
Budget
Not disclosed
RevenueEstimated
10M+ copies sold
widely reported at 10 million+ across PC/PlayStation/Xbox/Switch; a landmark redemption story after a rocky 2016 launch, still supported with major free updates a decade on
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10M+ units widely reported. Estimated gross ~$300-600M (10M × ~$60 MSRP; toward ~$300M after discounts); estimate. Hello Games' FY2022 accounts reported ~£39.7M (~$48M) revenue that year. No development budget disclosed.

Time to Beat
Main Story31h
Main + Extras62h
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Language
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English
French
Italian
German
Spanish (Spain)
Dutch
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Content Rating
ESRB Teen
System Requirements
Minimum
OS:Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions)
CPU:Intel Core i3
RAM:8 GB RAM
GPU:nVidia GTX 480, AMD Radeon 7870
Storage:10 GB available space
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Data aggregated from 4 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Wikidata, Metacritic
Last updated: 10.07.2026