Nova Lands Review: Adding Adorableness to Base Building 🚀✨

Dear Cozy Friends,

I apologize for going silent for the last month and a half. My human life has been hectic, to say the least. I’ve also been sick, busy with other responsibilities, and haven’t made time to play my cozy little games, and in turn, share with you my cozy little adventures.

With that said, you can look forward to a few posts about Nova Lands – a review, as well as a guide, and an introduction to a new MMO I’ve been excited about – Lost Ark.

Without further ado, here’s a review of Nova Lands:

To start, Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game designed around this super adorable pixel space themed universe. In this game, you’re a cute little explorer who has just landed on a remote planet, and it’s your job to bring industry and grow your community amongst the stars! 🚀✨

As you progress through the game, you’ll be able to build yourself your own little rocket ship, which will take you to the space station. It’s up to you to bring this once thriving intergalactic marketplace back to life! “End game” involves crafting difficult items, shipping them off to be sold, and further growing and developing the space station. Meet cute characters with adorable art along the way!

What makes this title different from others in this genre is it really is designed to be casual, relaxing experience. If you’ve played other automation, factory building or management type games, you may recall that they can be quite stressful and overwhelming. Unlike other titles, such as Satisfactory, Nova Lands isn’t as expansive, and therefore, likely much less stressful. It does not require a ton of strategy to master.

Beyond factory building, there is a lot more to be done in Nova Lands. As you continue to unlock other biomes and explore the planet, you’ll discover monuments and their guardians. These are tough bosses to overcome. Here’s the interesting thing about that, though – you don’t have to fight them. You can, instead, befriend these guardians. How adorable is that?!

There is some combat in this game, but there are ways to develop your gaming experience to avoid as much combat as possible. As you unlock skills each level, you can make certain animals docile, as well as craft fighter bots to do the combat for you. Along with befriending the guardians, you can nearly skip most combat available in this game if you choose to.

If collectathons are your thing (games that involve creature collecting, or some kind of collection/museum activity) there is a bit of that too in Nova Lands!

Overall, I think Nova Lands is a great introduction to the factory building and automation genre, especially if you haven’t tried them before. If you have, but you find those games kind of stressful or challenging, I recommend starting here. This is a great game to learn the genre! Also ALIENS! And space travel! I love aliens and space travel!

If you decide to give Nova Lands a try, or have played it before, I’d love to hear what you think in the comments.

Also, I’d like to note that the game is on sale right now for $13.99, and ends March 21.

Over and out! – Cozy Bear