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Lost Nova

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

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Quick resume

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

Global score

92/100

Genres

Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulator, Platform

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    Pros

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

    Cons

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

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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      "Gameplay involves crafting and resource management with some puzzle elements, but overall low difficulty and simple mechanics."

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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      "Players report engaging gameplay with achievements encouraging extended play, though some find it repetitive and play in bursts."

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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      "Strongly emphasized as a relaxing, stress-relieving, immersive escape from real life."

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily for enjoyment and relaxation, not out of obligation or pressure."

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    • Experimenting

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      "Players explore and discover clues and secrets, though some gameplay loops are repetitive and routine."

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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      "Players experience a sense of community through story and character interactions, but no social multiplayer."

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    • Growth

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      "Players develop skills, unlock abilities, and progress through story-driven character growth."

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    • Health

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      "No physical activity or health-related gameplay elements."

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    • Idle

      Game with the same Idle vibe

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      "Requires active engagement; some players note need for focus and continuous play to progress."

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    • Intimacy

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      "Emotional connections with characters and meaningful dialogue foster some intimacy."

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      "Emotional connections with characters and meaningful dialogue foster some intimacy."

    • Leadership

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      "No leadership or management roles; gameplay is individual and supportive."

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    • Progression

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      "Clear progression through story, skill upgrades, base building, and item collection."

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    • Relaxation

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      "Highly relaxing atmosphere with soothing music, gentle gameplay, and cozy visuals."

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    • Sensation

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      "Enjoyable art style, music, and visual effects provide sensory pleasure."

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    • Status

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    • Story

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      "Engaging narrative with character development and thematic depth."

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Intimacy, Survival, Violence, Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Thrill, Cooperation, Creativity.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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    Last update: 30/04/2026