Games like Stella Nova
If Stella Nova is your kind of game, the closest matches are Coasteroid, Mountainhall and Corsair Cove — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Stella Nova: Build modular space stations, manage citizen crews, and master a deep crafting chain in a procedurally generated solar system with real orbital physics. Mine asteroids, smelt alloys, manufacture components, and expand across the planets!
Players who liked Stella Nova also play
Steam players who put hours into Stella Nova also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Coasteroid
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Top pick for Stella Nova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stella Nova.
Build stellar rollercoasters across alien worlds, carve tunnels through planets, and launch trains into orbit. Customize every track element, scenery decoration, and environment before subjecting riders to the forces of the universe! The galaxy is your theme park!
Mountainhall
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Second-strongest match for Stella Nova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stella Nova.
The dwarves have chosen you. Will you lead them? A new land, a new start, and a mountain waiting to become a home. Dig it out from the inside, lead a colony of dwarves with lives of their own, and stand with them when the goblins come. Build a settlement, a fortress, a Mountainhall.
Corsair Cove
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Stella Nova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stella Nova.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Colony Break
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Ranked #4 for Stella Nova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Stella Nova.
Your people are the power, and the problem. Build, manage, and defend humanity's future on a hostile planet. The greatest danger is not what hunts you, but what changes you. Will your colony survive, or will it break itself apart?
StrategySteam ↗Thveit
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Ranked #5 for Stella Nova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stella Nova.
Thveit is a cozy Norse settlement builder where changing seasons, ancient beliefs, and folklore creatures shape the fate of your settlements. Guide your settlers, manage resources, and grow a thriving community as humans and mythical beings learn to live side by side.
TOWERPUNK
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Ranked #6 for Stella Nova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stella Nova.
Build and manage a cyberpunk megatower. You are the tower's machine-mind, stacking thousands of residents into one dynamic system. Balance resources, transit, and production chains across five social strata. Define your corporate identity and decide what kind of intelligence rules from the top.
Beyond These Stars
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Ranked #7 for Stella Nova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stella Nova.
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
CivDle
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Ranked #8 for Stella Nova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stella Nova.
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stella Nova.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stella Nova.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Stella Nova.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stella Nova.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stella Nova.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stella Nova.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about Stella Nova
- What games are most similar to Stella Nova?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stella Nova are Coasteroid, Mountainhall, Corsair Cove.
- Who developed Stella Nova?
- Stella Nova was developed by Dave and published by also Dave.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Stella Nova.
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