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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Quest Industries
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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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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Moose Builders
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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FluxWerks
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Island Beekeeper
Single-player alternative to Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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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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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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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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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!