Lost Nova similar games & best alternatives

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Lost Nova

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

Should you play it?

Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!

What works

  • Charming art style and music
  • Relaxing and wholesome gameplay
  • Engaging characters and story
  • Accessible and simple mechanics
  • Meaningful themes about self-care

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Some grindy achievements
  • Limited post-game content
  • Minor bugs reported
  • Lack of replayability for some players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Smushi Come Home

  • FixFox

  • Potion Permit

  • Little Witch in the Woods

  • Cozy Caravan

  • A Short Hike

Less intimate

Games that feels like Lost Nova but with less focus on close relationships

  • Rain on Your Parade

  • Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition

  • Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

  • Evoland Legendary Edition

  • Super Lucky's Tale

  • Promenade

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Lost Nova but with less of a community feel

  • Garden of the Sea (VR)

  • Wytchwood

  • Under The Island

  • Night Reverie: Prologue

  • Mika and The Witch's Mountain

  • Haven Park

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Lost Nova. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Lost Nova. These titles are not in What to play next.

Lost Nova: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fellowship, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Thrill.

Last update: 21/08/2026