The Game Census
Nova Lands cover art

Nova Lands

BEHEMUTT · HypeTrain Digital · 2023-06-22

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jun 22, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Jun 22, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 22, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 22, 2023 (Xbox One)

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!

Nova Lands is an Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2023, priced at $19.99, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (89% of 3532 reviews).

32
playing now
89%
positive of 3.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
3
Nexus mods (27 downloads)
4.08★
PlayStation Store rating (212 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

32 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Nova Lands trailer thumbnail

Nova Lands - Launch Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 32 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 147 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~18/week).
  • · Review velocity down 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (582 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 29,019 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 71k–159k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,532 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.99-50%
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.79 at Fanatical (2024-11-09) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $23.56 · on sale 196 of 223 observed days · $3.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
53853820232026Week of 2023-06-01: 538 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 374 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

48102026-09-15 15:00 — 44 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 19 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 12 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 39 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 34 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 16 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 23 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 19 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 23 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 37 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 20 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 11 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 16 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 30 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 21 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 30 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 43 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 24 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 22 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 48 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 26 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 23 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 37 players2026-10-15 06:00 — 32 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.5k30Jun 2023Aug 2026Jun 2023 — avg 1,538 · peak 2,799Jul 2023 — avg 520 · peak 1,446Aug 2023 — avg 142 · peak 369Sep 2023 — avg 55 · peak 119Oct 2023 — avg 110 · peak 282Nov 2023 — avg 54 · peak 149Dec 2023 — avg 319 · peak 942Jan 2024 — avg 196 · peak 464Feb 2024 — avg 61 · peak 149Mar 2024 — avg 96 · peak 203Apr 2024 — avg 54 · peak 172May 2024 — avg 64 · peak 179Jun 2024 — avg 38 · peak 103Jul 2024 — avg 106 · peak 358Aug 2024 — avg 44 · peak 119Sep 2024 — avg 42 · peak 83Oct 2024 — avg 106 · peak 286Nov 2024 — avg 35 · peak 81Dec 2024 — avg 60 · peak 109Jan 2025 — avg 52 · peak 108Feb 2025 — avg 34 · peak 88Mar 2025 — avg 52 · peak 115Apr 2025 — avg 212 · peak 423May 2025 — avg 162 · peak 391Jun 2025 — avg 140 · peak 486Jul 2025 — avg 93 · peak 188Aug 2025 — avg 79 · peak 168Sep 2025 — avg 49 · peak 121Oct 2025 — avg 47 · peak 99Nov 2025 — avg 47 · peak 101Dec 2025 — avg 41 · peak 87Jan 2026 — avg 56 · peak 106Feb 2026 — avg 42 · peak 101Mar 2026 — avg 38 · peak 90Apr 2026 — avg 46 · peak 164May 2026 — avg 40 · peak 96Jun 2026 — avg 37 · peak 85Jul 2026 — avg 46 · peak 98Aug 2026 — avg 30 · peak 89
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$23.52$7.392023-06-022026-10-152023-06-02 — best price $19.992023-08-21 — best price $19.992023-11-17 — best price $14.692023-12-20 — best price $19.992024-01-23 — best price $14.692024-02-24 — best price $19.992024-03-20 — best price $13.992024-05-02 — best price $10.722024-05-31 — best price $15.892024-06-29 — best price $13.992024-08-14 — best price $13.992024-09-23 — best price $19.992024-10-13 — best price $10.792024-11-05 — best price $19.992024-12-05 — best price $8.992025-01-23 — best price $10.992025-03-21 — best price $9.792025-04-19 — best price $9.212025-05-26 — best price $10.992025-06-15 — best price $19.992025-07-24 — best price $9.992025-08-30 — best price $14.842025-10-01 — best price $9.792025-11-15 — best price $9.092025-12-18 — best price $7.422026-02-14 — best price $14.692026-03-27 — best price $14.692026-04-27 — best price $7.432026-05-14 — best price $7.432026-06-01 — best price $9.992026-06-17 — best price $9.992026-07-07 — best price $11.442026-07-24 — best price $8.232026-08-11 — best price $23.082026-08-28 — best price $19.992026-09-12 — best price $19.992026-09-27 — best price $9.992026-10-12 — best price $9.992026-10-15 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
84%
earned "The Automation Starts"
35.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

15 supported languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, French, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Turkish…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-06-22 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,03725%24
Xbox One (Xbox)19128%24
PS4 (PlayStation)18452%25
PS4 (PlayStation)12341%25
Switch (Nintendo)130%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DRobotsSandboxBuildingCraftingStrategySurvivalAdventureAutomationOpen World

Census log

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

Players also track

Star Control®: OriginsMiscreatedRising WorldSurvivalistThe Long Journey HomeSol 0: Mars ColonizationForce of NatureDude Simulator

Similarity via IGDB.

Official site ↗Discord ↗Reddit ↗