Single-player games like Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission, 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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Nova Lands
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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The Maker Way
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
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FluxWerks
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Build, automate, manage heat and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early mining technologies to quantum computing.
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Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Prospector: The First Contract
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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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World Crafter TD: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!
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Prospector
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission.
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
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Slime Rancher
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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shapez
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Forager
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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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Mana Spark
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Fourleaf Fields
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!