Games like Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission
If Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission is your kind of game, the closest matches are Quest Industries, Nova Lands and Moose Builders — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive automation gameplay, chill and cozy. 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 →About Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission: 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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Quest Industries
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Top pick for Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Mine resources, build a factory, hire goblins, launch a space rocket. A short and satisfying factory builder about turning a one-goblin operation into a sprawling industrial empire.
Nova Lands
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Shares a chill mood with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Second-strongest match for Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
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!
Moose Builders
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Third-strongest match for Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels to power them. Research new machines to automate everything in multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends to survive in the desert and turn it into a solar farm.
FluxWerks
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Ranked #4 for Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Island Beekeeper
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Ranked #5 for Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Satisfactory
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Shares base building with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Ranked #6 for Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
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!
Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
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Shares base building, crafting and a relaxing mood with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Ranked #7 for Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Prospector: The First Contract
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Shares automation chains, base building and a chill mood with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Ranked #8 for Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
As the Prospector in this Prologue chapter, you will be taking on your first contract. Explore new planets, gather resources, build your fully automated base, and ship materials to distant colonies.
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Slime Rancher
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Shares resource management and a cozy mood with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Reviewers of Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
shapez
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Shares a relaxing mood with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Reviewers of Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Forager
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Shares crafting and a chill mood with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Reviewers of Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
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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Nova Lands
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Shares a chill mood with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Another title from BEHEMUTT, the studio behind Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
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!
Mana Spark
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Shares a whimsical mood with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Another title from BEHEMUTT, the studio behind Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission. Shares Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
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.
Fourleaf Fields
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Another title from BEHEMUTT, the studio behind Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
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.
Nova Lands
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
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!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
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!
Prospector: The First Contract
WHY THIS
Shares automation chains, base building and a chill mood with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
As the Prospector in this Prologue chapter, you will be taking on your first contract. Explore new planets, gather resources, build your fully automated base, and ship materials to distant colonies.
Frequently asked about Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission
- Does Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission run on Steam Deck?
- Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission free to play?
- Yes — Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission are Quest Industries, Nova Lands, Moose Builders.
- Who developed Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission?
- Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission was developed by BEHEMUTT and published by HypeTrain Digital.
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