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Player-first design
Every system exists to serve the fun. If a mechanic can’t justify itself in one sentence, it goes.
Independent since 2011
We craft worlds
We craft worlds
worth getting lost in
Nova Interactive is a forty-person studio obsessed with atmosphere — hand-drawn worlds, cinematic light, and stories that keep talking to you long after the credits roll.
06Titles shipped
4.2MPlayers
92Awards & nominations
03Studios worldwide
Our craft
Atmosphere first.
Atmosphere first.
Everything else follows.
We start every project with a single feeling — the hush before a storm, the ache of a place you can’t return to — and then we build a world around it. Systems, sound and art all answer to that one feeling.
Nothing ships until it earns its place. That is slower, and it is the only way we know how to work.
How we work
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Bold art direction
Worlds drawn by hand and lit like film — a frame from a Nova game should be unmistakable.
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Accessible depth
Easy to pick up, generous to master. Full remapping, scalable text and no forced reflexes.
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Community-made
Our roadmaps are shaped in public. We are unreasonably proud of our patch notes.
Nova make games the way great cinematographers make films — every frame is a decision, and every decision is felt.
Edge Magazine · 9/10
The people
Forty humans,
Forty humans,
three cities, one table
Lisboa, Montréal and Ōsaka — different timezones, same conversation. We hire for curiosity, protect our evenings, and never ship on the back of anyone’s burnout.
From the journal
Latest from the studio
Echoes of the Hollow: the Wayfarer Pack
Fourteen new dwellings, a restored aquarium district and a full photo mode — free for everyone who owns the game.
Mapping a mystery
How we designed a world where the map is the puzzle — from napkin sketch to playable archipelago.
We’re hiring sound designers
Join the Lisboa team and give our worlds their voice. Remote-friendly, crunch-free, kettle always on.
Join us
Come get lost with us
Dev diaries, early builds and the occasional soundtrack demo — one letter a month, no noise.