Nova Lands
Worth it · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 18.9h
- Value
- $1.06/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 7600 GS (512 MB) or equivalent, 850 MB of storage. Windows only.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. 29 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 45 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Satisfactory ($27.99, scores 98) beats it on value, while it beats Eden Crafters ($19.99, scores 61).
Of the 538 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 113 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
84% start to 13% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
17 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 09:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Honestly if you're looking for a quick bit of fun with an factory/survival game there's better options. I played through a large part of this game but I couldn't shake the feeling of this being unfinished despite it seemingly no longer getting updates. The game at its core is interesting enough but some parts of the game are incredibly slow to progress through and some of the game feels just generally rough around...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Nova Lands scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1501610/nova-landsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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