Top 15 Escape Velocity Nova Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

The player starts as a freelance space pilot in a shuttlecraft, out to make a penny in the vast and unforgiving galaxy. There are many ways to play Nova; for example, a starting player seeking funds can become a trader or courier, delivering cargo between worlds; become a pirate or bounty hunter, attacking and disabling ships to steal their money, cargo, or the ships themselves; become involved in one of the main storylines; or even conquer the galaxy by subjugating worlds.

1. Endless Sky

Endless Sky Explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers, or completing missions. Use your earnings to buy a better ship or to upgrade the weapons and engines on your current one. Blow up pirates. Take sides in a civil war. Or leave human space behind and hope to find......

2. Transcendence

Transcendence A 2D space exploration, combat and trading game of epic proportions! Get ready to battle pirates, trade goods with a variety of civilizations some human some not and fulfill the destiny that the Domina has laid out for you. The journey will be dangerous but with your trusty ship and......

3. The Dead Linger

The Dead Linger The Dead Linger is a sandbox zombie game, the world is randomly generated as you move in to it.......

4. SwordCraft

SwordCraft Building, Crafting, RETRO Sandbox RPG!SwordCraft is a 2D building game in the style of Minecraft, Junk Jack, Blockheads or Terraria.The game is currently in early Alpha testing.Content is continuously being added.......

5. Dig or Die

Dig or Die Crash land on an hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it.You are a representative of the CRAFT & Co company. You are selling automated fabrication tools across the galaxy when your spacecraft crashes into a hostile planet. Use......

6. Platinum Arts Sandbox

Platinum Arts Sandbox Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker is an open source free game maker, free RPG Maker, free sidescroller maker, free Machinima creator, and game design tool that makes it easy for kids and adults to create video games, maps and worlds.......

7. Geared

Geared Geared is a side-scrolling RPG with real-time strategy elements. Geared is all about building, crafting and exploring. We built Geared fully from the ground up for android and iOS, with easy controls and light specs. In Geared, you take on the role of a lost little guy, out all alone......

8. Star Wars Combine

Star Wars Combine The Star Wars Combine is a free massively multiplayer online role-playing simulation game based on the Star Wars Universe......

9. Entropia Universe

Entropia Universe Entropia Universe is a massively multiplayer online virtual universe designed by the Swedish software company MindArk, based in Gothenburg. Entropia uses a micropayment business model, in which players may buy in-game currency (PED - Project Entropia Dollars) with real money that can be redeemed back into real world funds at......

10. Deepworld

Deepworld Deepworld is a massively-multiplayer 2D crafting adventure game. Mine and craft your way through a persistent online universe where there's always something new to discover! Now available for Windows, iOS, and Mac, and coming soon to Android.......

11. Planet Centauri

Planet Centauri Embark on your greatest adventure to Planet Centauri! Discover new biomes, explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame monsters, build and protect a NPC community, craft your own weapons and create your own magic spells! Save and protect the native Chlorinian species from the evil Night Walkers! Develop and raise the......

12. Edge of Space

Edge of Space Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform.Key FeaturesOpen World Exploration– Dynamically-generated 2D sandbox set in the deepest recesses of space, explore randomly generated caverns, wormhole anomalies and dive deeper into the planet to......

13. 8-Bit MMO

8-Bit MMO An 8bit-style 2D massively multiplayer game! It's a giant construction sandbox -- you can build a home or a castle in a persistent streaming world. Found and manage your own city. Fight evil Lawyercats and engage in player vs player battle.......

14. Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries

Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries Are you afraid of the big bad Woolfe? Step into the boots of a vengeful Red Riding Hood in this twisted-fairytale platformer. Defeat deranged fairytale bosses with your trusty axe, explore a gorgeous fantasy universe and piece together the truth behind the mysterious passing of Red’s fatherGreat Graphics, release: 2015Wine......

15. Shores of Hazeron

Shores of Hazeron Shores of Hazeron is an ambitious and revolutionary game set in a science fiction universe.We took a new approach. No off-the-shelf 3D engine was used except OpenGL. Years were devoted to developing entirely new methods and techniques. No cut scenes are ever used to make the transition from one place......