Lost Nova
Fair · Action · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.5h 6.6h to 100%
- Value
- $4.28/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 428 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.86 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512MB, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
24 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Carto ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats LOST EMBER ($29.99, scores 47).
More about Lost Nova
Of the 236 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
83% 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
What players say
Lost Nova was a super pleasant suprise. I went in thinking this would be a typical craft and mine colonist type game and I was totally wrong! This game is CHARMING! While yes the main mechanic is mining and farming the environments to upgrade things, helping others on quests and ultimately fixing your spaceship, The mechanics of how you do this while exploring the world are super organic and enjoyable. The game has...
2 more reviews
Shorter game (~4 hours and it looks like there's a good amount of postgame content) that I really enjoyed! Generally chill gameplay with great characters
This is a crafting game with all the boring and stressful parts stripped away. There's no cumbersome inventory management. There's no annoying monsters. There's just chill music, loveable characters, and oodles of charm-- all wrapped up in the most adorable art style. I only spent 6 hours on this game-- and two of those were finishing up achievements. In such a short time, the game managed to make me fall in love...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Lost Nova scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1603410/lost-novaReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.