Single-player games like Nova Lands
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Nova Lands, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Forager
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Outpath
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
- 3
Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Tinkerlands
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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AutoForge
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Nova Lands.
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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The Planet Crafter
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nova Lands.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Aground
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nova Lands.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nova Lands.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Moonlighter
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands.
Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.
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Craft The World
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands.
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
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Mana Spark
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.