Single-player games like Nova Lands
Below are 16 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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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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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!
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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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Atrio: The Dark Wild
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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TerraTech Worlds
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
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Eden Crafters
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Chocolate Factory
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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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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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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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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Vexlands
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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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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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.
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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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Fourleaf Fields
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!