Nivalis Nights
Nivalis Nights is a first-person, single-player life sim and RPG set in a cyberpunk city that stretches from the ocean to the clouds. You begin with a noodle stand and work toward owning restaurants and nightclubs, with room along the way for fishing, decorating apartments, and getting to know the neighbors. ION LANDS developed it, 505 Games published it, and it came out for PC on September 29, 2026.
Top 3 Reasons to Play
- Running the venues. Ramen bars are part of the lineup alongside restaurants and nightclubs. You hire staff, upgrade each place, and stock the kitchen with ingredients you buy or grow yourself. ION LANDS counts more than 240 ingredients and 190 meals in the final game.
- Curfew sabotage. There is a legal way to get ahead, and there is the other one: after curfew you can sneak past security systems and wreck a competitor's business. The official feature list warns that whatever happens to them can happen to you too.
- A home of your own. Apartments can be bought and furnished from a catalogue of more than 620 items, and you can also customize other people's homes for friends. When the business gets stressful, the docks offer fishing and a boat.
Story and Lore
The story takes place in a district of Nivalis pushed to the brink by CorpSec crackdowns and a mysterious serial killer. Ava, the player character, arrives with the noodle stand and plans to make something of it. Other residents carry their own storylines, which surface as you get to know them.
The city first appeared in Cloudpunk (2020), also from ION LANDS, where a delivery driver named Rania works night shifts in a flying car. That game showed Nivalis from above; this one puts you on its streets.
Gameplay and Mechanics
Each day is a set of choices, played out under a day-night cycle and a weather system. The main pieces:
- Quests: more than 100, connected to the residents you meet.
- Mini-games: NPCs can be challenged to matches, and a chess tournament is on the calendar.
- Travel: districts can be explored on foot, and the boat covers the waterways.
Placed furniture, cooked dishes, and other changes to the world are saved for more than 10,000 objects, so rooms look the way you left them. Steam lists Achievements, Cloud saves, and Family Sharing.
Characters and Factions
Beyond Ava, the cast is made up of neighbors, customers, and the owners of rival venues, and how you treat them shapes the relationships you end up with. The Steam description names one faction, CorpSec, whose crackdowns set the district's mood.
Editions
Nivalis Nights is sold as a single standard edition. A soundtrack is listed separately on Steam, and no Deluxe Edition or expansion has been announced.