Games like Nova Lands

Miss the retro and relaxing pull of Nova Lands? These games are worth a look next.

Prospector
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!
Also in Survival crafting · Retro, Relaxing, Mysterious
64% of 112 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
AutoForge
A 2D automation sandbox where the factory runs on Mana and the factory worker is a golem. Build production lines, farm, tame monsters, dig for ore and unlock the world region by region, all while a very persistent defense system tries to take your resources back. Thoughtful building, gentle pixel art, and a mystery about your missing masters.
Also in Survival crafting · Retro, Relaxing, Colorful
86% of 445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
Automation Empire
Build a planet-wide industrial network from nothing: mines, farms, factories, and the trains, trucks and drones that feed them. Automation Empire is a gentle, low-pressure factory sim about untangling bottlenecks and watching your machine hum. Seven planets, one goal: efficiency.
Relaxing
65% of 2,585 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$29.99
Sandustry
Sandustry is a factory game where every pixel is stuff you can mine, spill, melt, burn, or blow up. You start sifting gold from wet sand and end up plumbing steam, lava, seeds, and ice across a fully destructible planet, hunting artifacts left by an ancient civilization.
Also in Survival crafting · Relaxing, Mysterious
97% of 5,720 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 981$19.99
FOUNDRY
A first-person factory builder in an infinite voxel world. Mine, automate and optimize robot production from deep underground to the sky, sell through interplanetary trade, and do it all at your own pace: nothing here wants to eat you. Play solo or build together in co-op.
Also in Survival crafting · Relaxing
82% of 3,334 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 206$29.99
Nightwater
Nightwater drops you on an island floating in a sea of starlight, where you turn sticks and stones into a working factory, manifest new biomes into existence and push through the ages toward a Lighthouse with a secret. A gentle, puzzling take on the factory game, made for unwinding rather than optimizing.
Also in Survival crafting · Relaxing, Mysterious
83% of 168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Satisfactory
Satisfactory is a first-person factory builder set on a 30 square kilometre alien planet. You harvest resources, raise multi-story factories, and automate trucks and trains, with belts and pipes carrying goods and liquids. It is easy to pick up, relaxed in pace, and built around solving logistics problems, alone or with friends in co-op.
Also in Survival crafting · Relaxing
97% of 237,577 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25,001$39.99
Terrafactor
You have one job — feed The Hole. Harvest the land with your hands. Then build machines to do it for you. Craft more advanced technology... then feed it to The Hole.
Also in Survival crafting · Retro, Relaxing
90% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Captain of Industry
Start with a ship, a crew and an empty island, and end with rockets and a space station. Captain of Industry is a factory builder about mining, reshaping land, farming, keeping people alive, and chaining refineries and assembly lines all the way to nuclear power.
Relaxing
90% of 11,276 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,665$34.99
Kubifaktorium
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Relaxing, Colorful
79% of 728 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Evospace
Evospace is a first-person factory and automation game on a procedurally generated voxel world. Mine, refine and build production chains that grow from stone smelters to fusion and teleportation, with no enemies to interrupt you. Shape the land freely, automate everything, and finish by opening a portal to another world.
Also in Survival crafting · Relaxing
83% of 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99
Astro Colony
Astro Colony is a relaxed automation game in an endless procedurally generated universe. Build conveyor networks, move and dock your stations, recruit astronauts and research new tech, alone or with friends. No timers, no punishing failure: just you, a growing colony and a galaxy of voxel planets to strip for parts.
Relaxing
80% of 2,447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 83$19.99

Cheaper than Nova Lands

Prospector

Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game.

$14.99

Nightwater

Build a gentle automation sandbox on a floating island, at your own pace, with a quiet mystery waiting at the end.

$14.99

Terrafactor

You have one job — feed The Hole. Harvest the land with your hands. Then build machines to do it for you.

$14.99

Factory Town

Grow a village in the wilderness and let belts, rails and airships do the hauling while your townsfolk get happier.

$4.99

ReFactory

Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an…

$11.99

Evospace

Mine, refine and build production chains that grow from simple smelters to fusion power, then open a portal to another world.

$14.99

Starground

Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends.

$10.49

Widget Inc.

Turn a handful of Widgets into an automated, country-spanning production line, one calm tier at a time.

$4.99

The Crust

Build a lunar colony Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, keep your colonists fed and…

$19.19

Boppio

Boppio is a game about obtaining materials, constructing buildings, and assembling a spaceship to return home.

$9.99

Outpath

Outpath is a first-person sandbox about gathering, crafting and building your way from one small island to a whole scattered world.

$14.99

Mob Factory

Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer.

$14.99

Hidden gems like Nova Lands

Modulus: Factory Automation

Cut, paint and stamp voxel modules, then belt them across sky islands into production systems that work exactly the way you want.

$24.99

Sandustry

Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.

$19.99

Factory Town 2: Paradise

Grow a sunny island village into a bustling metropolis, one belt, train and zipline at a time, with no timers and no way to lose.

$19.99

Forage Wizard

Tap trees for wood, brew potions in your pixel workshop, and let your base slowly do the work for you.

$6.99

Star Birds

Star Birds is a relaxed factory game on asteroids. Scan rocks, mine ice and stranger things, and link it all with hand-drawn pipes while your…

$19.99

Nightwater

Build a gentle automation sandbox on a floating island, at your own pace, with a quiet mystery waiting at the end.

$14.99

Eden Crafters

Eden Crafters hands you a hostile planet and one job: make it livable.

$19.99

Plan B: Terraform

Turn frozen wasteland into green, living terrain by moving water, resources and people across a calm hex-grid planet.

$11.99

Astro Colony

Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.

$19.99

Star Ores Inc.

Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine.

$17.99

Havendock

Turn a lonely raft into a cozy ocean colony, fishing debris from the waves and automating your way up to submarines and a rocket.

$19.99

Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure

Build workshops in a colorful fantasy world and let your Sparks haul, craft and multiply while you untangle their traffic at your own pace.

$29.99

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