Nivalis Nights: from noodle stand to nightclub in a cyberpunk city

This page is the reference sheet for the game: what it is, how the business and the city work, what else fills your days, where you can get it, what it costs and what it asks of your PC. It is written for someone deciding whether to pick it up now that it is out. Everything on it comes from the Steam store page, the developer and publisher posts on Steam and 505 Games’ own product page.

A slice-of-life simulation with a business at its centre. The store files it under adventure, RPG and simulation; 505 Games calls it adventure, management and simulation. The store pitch is simple: every day is a choice between growing your business and forging bonds with the city’s strange inhabitants, and your path is entirely up to you.

The setting is Nivalis, a vertical cyberpunk city that stretches from the ocean to the clouds, built out of voxels. Where you live, CorpSec is cracking down and a serial killer is on the loose. The curfew that follows is not decoration: it is when the less legal parts of the game open up.

It is single-player. There is a main storyline with a beginning and an end, according to ION LANDS’ community Q&A, and more than 130 characters in the city carry stories of their own.

You start humble with a noodle stand and climb toward the city’s top restaurants and premier nightclubs. The store’s feature list puts it plainly: manage businesses like restaurants, ramen bars or night clubs.

There is no car to drive. You move between districts by HOVA taxi and by train, with a loading screen at each district boundary, and the subway system centres on The Metro Hub. What you do own is a boat.

Named districts include Seaside Boardwalk, with its pier and a fast train from the industrial district, Skyhigh Gardens, reached by flying taxi, and Calypso Island. A realistic weather system runs over the top, and the city is simulated in tiers depending on whether its people are outside your district, inside it but out of sight, or on screen.

On 11 September 505 Games posted a brochure-style tourist map of the city, the easiest way to get a feel for the districts before you move in.

The other half of the game, and of its stories, is everything that is not the business. The store lists all of it as core features, not side content.

Same studio, same city. ION LANDS made Cloudpunk, and Nivalis Nights is set in the same Nivalis.

The studio’s own words from its March 2026 Q&A: “if you’ve played both, you might notice some familiar details and small connections. That said, this game is designed to be a standalone experience.” You do not need to have played Cloudpunk.

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Screenshots via the game’s Steam store page · © their respective rights holders.

The game is on Steam for Windows PC. 505 Games lists an Epic Games Store version as “TBA”, without a date, and no console version has been announced. Steam lists neither macOS nor Linux.

505 Games set the price on 24 September: $24.99, €24.99 or £21.99, with a special 10 per cent launch discount. Text is available in eleven languages; only English has full audio.

Steam lists the requirements below. Both tiers ask for 16 GB of RAM, 42 GB of storage and an SSD; the minimum targets 1080p at 30 FPS on the very low preset, the recommended tier 1440p at 60 FPS on high, both without upscaling.

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