Games like Nova Lands
If Nova Lands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Satisfactory, Forager and Outpath — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Nova Lands is a strategy and simulation game set across multiple islands where players build automated production chains. The core loop involves exploring the environment, gathering resources, and designing factory layouts that operate without time pressure. Players unlock blueprints that enable unlimited crafting possibilities once acquired, while logistics drones automate the transport of materials between production facilities. Spaceship upgrades extend the progression system, giving players continued goals throughout the long campaign. Reviewers highlight the automation optimization as deeply satisfying, while players describe the overall experience as atmospheric and relaxing. The pixel art style and open-world island setting provide a charming backdrop for the resource management and base-building mechanics. Available for $19.99, the game runs verified on Steam Deck and holds a 90% positive rating from over 1100 Steam reviews.
About Nova Lands: Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Players who liked Nova Lands also play
Steam players who put hours into Nova Lands also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Nova Lands.
Top pick for Nova Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Forager
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Nova Lands.
Second-strongest match for Nova Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Outpath
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nova Lands.
Third-strongest match for Nova Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Nova Lands.
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Nova Lands.
Ranked #4 for Nova Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Atrio: The Dark Wild
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nova Lands.
Ranked #5 for Nova Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Nova Lands.
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
TerraTech Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Nova Lands.
Ranked #6 for Nova Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Eden Crafters
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Nova Lands.
Ranked #7 for Nova Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Chocolate Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Nova Lands.
Ranked #8 for Nova Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Nova Lands
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Nova Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Nova Lands.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Nova Lands.
Reviewers of Nova Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Forager
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Nova Lands.
Reviewers of Nova Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Tinkerlands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nova Lands.
Reviewers of Nova Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands.
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nova Lands.
Reviewers of Nova Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Vexlands
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Nova Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
Vexlands is a realm of surprises. Every newly opened space brings a surprise: loot, resources, dungeons, monsters and disasters! Build your village where you craft new equipment before you explore uncharted areas, and find relics that explain who came before and why these lands are cursed.
Outpath
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nova Lands.
Reviewers of Nova Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Nova Lands.
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nova Lands.
Reviewers of Nova Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Nova Lands.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nova Lands at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Nova Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nova Lands.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nova Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nova Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nova Lands.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Nova Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nova Lands.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Nova Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nova Lands.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Nova Lands.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nova Lands.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nova Lands.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nova Lands.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nova Lands.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from BEHEMUTT
Other recommendable Steam games by BEHEMUTT, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Mana Spark
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Nova Lands.
Another title from BEHEMUTT, the studio behind Nova Lands. Shares Indie with Nova Lands.
A challenging action RPG with deep souls-like combat and rogue-like elements. Explore a dreadful dungeon and fight smart enemies that will plan and collaborate between themselves to defeat you.
Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Nova Lands.
Another title from BEHEMUTT, the studio behind Nova Lands. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands.
Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission is a prologue chapter of the main game, Nova Lands. Learn your way around the planet you've landed on, build your base, and automate it with your helpful bots!
Fourleaf Fields
WHY THIS
Another title from BEHEMUTT, the studio behind Nova Lands. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
Welcome to the tiny world of Fourleaf Fields, a cozy farming life sim where you're no bigger than a carrot. Grow towering crops, care for tiny farm bugs, and uncover a web of secrets fueled by gossip - solo or online with friends!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Nova Lands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Forager
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Nova Lands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Nova Lands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Frequently asked about Nova Lands
- Is Nova Lands verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Nova Lands is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Nova Lands cost?
- Nova Lands is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Nova Lands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nova Lands are Satisfactory, Forager, Outpath.
- Who developed Nova Lands?
- Nova Lands was developed by BEHEMUTT and published by HypeTrain Digital.
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