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Nova-111 cover art

Nova-111

Funktronic Labs · 2015-08-25

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 25, 2015 (PlayStation 4), Aug 25, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 25, 2015 (Mac), Sep 24, 2015 (Wii U), Jan 13, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 28, 2015 (Xbox One)

Pilot your trusty orange vessel in this quirky sci-fi strategy game that cleverly mixes turn-based and real-time gameplay. Your mission: fix space-time and recover all the scientists lost in the aftermath of the Universe's Greatest Science Experiment.

Nova-111 is a 2015 Action, Adventure, Indie, and Strategy game priced at $4.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (77% of 183 reviews).

0
playing now
77%
positive of 183 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
74/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
3.65★
PlayStation Store rating (4,162 ratings)
5.5h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Nova-111 is a 2015 science fiction turn-based strategy / puzzle video game developed by Funktronic Labs and published by Curve Digital. It was released for macOS, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and the Wii U in August and September 2015. A port for the Nintendo Switch was released in January 2022 and was published by No Gravity Games.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 30% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.6k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 183 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$3.00-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.24 at Steam (2018-12-20) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 3 of 9 observed days · $1.76 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520152026Week of 2015-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.242015-08-252026-10-112015-08-25 — best price $11.992015-09-22 — best price $14.992015-12-01 — best price $14.992016-01-29 — best price $14.992016-02-12 — best price $7.992016-05-08 — best price $3.742016-06-23 — best price $3.742016-07-09 — best price $14.992016-07-18 — best price $8.992016-11-23 — best price $2.242017-01-02 — best price $8.992017-05-25 — best price $14.992017-09-21 — best price $14.992017-11-22 — best price $2.242018-01-11 — best price $3.742018-05-10 — best price $3.742018-08-30 — best price $7.492018-11-15 — best price $7.492018-12-11 — best price $4.992019-01-24 — best price $4.992019-05-23 — best price $4.992019-09-12 — best price $4.992019-12-03 — best price $4.992020-01-10 — best price $2.492020-01-27 — best price $4.992020-07-09 — best price $4.992020-11-02 — best price $4.992020-12-22 — best price $2.492021-06-24 — best price $1.242021-10-28 — best price $1.242021-12-22 — best price $2.492022-06-23 — best price $2.492022-11-23 — best price $2.242023-06-29 — best price $2.492023-12-22 — best price $3.242024-06-27 — best price $2.492024-12-19 — best price $1.242025-12-18 — best price $2.492026-09-13 — best price $9.992026-10-11 — best price $3.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1402026-06-02 — 1 pageviews2026-06-06 — 5 pageviews2026-06-10 — 6 pageviews2026-06-14 — 3 pageviews2026-06-18 — 5 pageviews2026-06-22 — 14 pageviews2026-06-26 — 7 pageviews2026-06-30 — 7 pageviews2026-07-04 — 4 pageviews2026-07-08 — 11 pageviews2026-07-12 — 2 pageviews2026-07-16 — 6 pageviews2026-07-20 — 6 pageviews2026-07-24 — 6 pageviews2026-07-28 — 2 pageviews2026-08-01 — 2 pageviews2026-08-05 — 5 pageviews2026-08-09 — 9 pageviews2026-08-13 — 4 pageviews2026-08-17 — 6 pageviews2026-08-21 — 6 pageviews2026-08-25 — 8 pageviews2026-08-29 — 10 pageviews2026-09-02 — 2 pageviews2026-09-06 — 9 pageviews2026-09-10 — 3 pageviews2026-09-14 — 5 pageviews2026-09-18 — 7 pageviews2026-09-22 — 4 pageviews2026-09-26 — 9 pageviews2026-09-30 — 5 pageviews2026-10-04 — 4 pageviews2026-10-08 — 1 pageviews2026-10-12 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
19.6%
earned "Enemy Infighting"
2.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2015-09-01 (Steam store data)

Player tags

RTSPuzzleSci-fiAction RTSRogue-likeExplorationSingleplayerSide ScrollerDungeon CrawlerMystery Dungeon

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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