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Nova Lands
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!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
54 of the 71 reviews raise this.
“Satisfactory but for a potato”
9 of the 71 reviews raise this.
“#Beaten - 60 Hours Baby's first factorio. Pros: - A satisfying upgrade path and tech tree - Always something else to build Cons: - Last 30 hours was just me waiting to have stuff finish building Neutral - You have…”
“Probably one of my favorite games. The first playthrough can feel a little overwhelming, but I restarted and with my knowledge of the basics started scaling stuff immediately when something new unlocked. The progression…”
“This was my first automation game, completed it and got every achievement and challenge. I think it might be a bit on the simpler side for someone who tried other games of this genre, but in my case, it was a…”
8 of the 71 reviews raise this.
“An original take on the automation genre. Nova Lands is a mix between a little bit of resource gathering and crafting, a lot of automatic production setup, and some anecdotal fighting. It's nothing brand new and…”
“#Beaten - 60 Hours Baby's first factorio. Pros: - A satisfying upgrade path and tech tree - Always something else to build Cons: - Last 30 hours was just me waiting to have stuff finish building Neutral - You have…”
“Good game. 100% within a week, good for those who enjoy building factories but casually.”
7 of the 71 reviews raise this.
“This game has the sauce. Cute, charming, cozy, simple, complex? entertaining and addictive. I love automation games, and I can easily say this one stands among the GOATs (yes, really). Would love it if the QoL features…”
“An original take on the automation genre. Nova Lands is a mix between a little bit of resource gathering and crafting, a lot of automatic production setup, and some anecdotal fighting. It's nothing brand new and…”
5 of the 71 reviews raise this.
“This was my first automation game, completed it and got every achievement and challenge. I think it might be a bit on the simpler side for someone who tried other games of this genre, but in my case, it was a…”
“Nova Lands is a survival sandbox game with really cute art style and a really honest take on the genre. The game doesn't seek to be revolutionary, but have every aspect in the right mind and place to make it worth your…”
“u may see the grafics and say "its not cute" or "it seems ungly/boring" , boy . Its not the truthhh. I love it”
25 of the 71 reviews raise this · 21 of them still recommend the game.
“Great game. The end game was kinda grindy though. Made me sit and wait for awhile because I needed a specific item. But everything else about the game was great. It was pretty addicting getting more and more upgrades…”
9 of the 71 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“"Hey Forager, can I copy your homework?" "Sure, but my homework isn't really even mine, i just copied it from the guys sitting around me."”
“Steam still can't accept offline playtime before making a review, so.. I just let the title screen run for 5 more minutes in order to say: Cute, but extremely simplistic and limited with few options, limited land, and…”
“I believe the idea of this game is very very cute. However it is incredibly lacking in diversity. for a $20 game this game needs about 5x more content. I believe the value of this game is between $5 and $8. I don't…”
5 of the 71 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“I believe the idea of this game is very very cute. However it is incredibly lacking in diversity. for a $20 game this game needs about 5x more content. I believe the value of this game is between $5 and $8. I don't…”
5 of the 71 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Strong start, poor finish I really enjoyed this game in the beginning, but around halfway through I had done everything, and there was nothing left but waiting for my machines to produce the items I needed in order to…”
“Steam still can't accept offline playtime before making a review, so.. I just let the title screen run for 5 more minutes in order to say: Cute, but extremely simplistic and limited with few options, limited land, and…”
“I believe the idea of this game is very very cute. However it is incredibly lacking in diversity. for a $20 game this game needs about 5x more content. I believe the value of this game is between $5 and $8. I don't…”
3 of the 71 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
Counted across 71 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 89.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“I would describe it as forager with automation. Had a lot of fun playing it, towards the end it becomes quite a bit grindy to get the 100% done. Automation works well enough, even though sometimes I wished for a bit more. The riddles were easy enough and there is def. enough…”
— a player, Steam review · 27 hrs played“Like another review on here said and I kind of disregarded when purchasing: The endgame does very much fall apart. Buy this on sale, there's a lot of charm and fun here. +You get a very enjoyable ~20 hours of gameplay and an "ending". +You can very easily get all but three…”
— a player, Steam review · 44 hrs played“It's a fun little game, but the "end game" kinda falls apart. Feels very tacked on. Still a fun romp and not terribly expensive. I do dislike that there's an "idle to increase production speed" mechanic. To me that seems like the game just needs a core speed boost instead. But…”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Automation · Base-Building · Sandbox · Adventure · Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Pixel Graphics · Resource Management · Open World · Robots · Crafting · Strategy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Portuguese - Brazil, French, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, German, Korean, Traditional Chinese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 24 |
| Official site | https://novalandsgame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Win 7 or later Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 (2*1866) or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce 7600 GS (512 MB) or equivalent Storage: 850 MB available space