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The Steam version is scheduled for September 29, 2026. The Epic Games Store page currently says Coming Soon and does not display an exact release date.
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Yes. ION LANDS says the project formerly called Nivalis was renamed Nivalis Nights after a legal matter was resolved; the game itself remains the same project.
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The current Steam listing presents September 29, 2026 as the release date and does not label the game as Early Access. Any future change should be confirmed on the official store page.
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An official launch price has not yet been published on the current Steam page. Regional pricing and discounts should not be assumed before the store enables purchasing.
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No public demo is currently listed on the Steam store page. A showcase or festival appearance does not by itself confirm that a playable demo will be released.
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No. Nivalis Nights shares the city setting with Cloudpunk, but ION LANDS describes it as a standalone experience that does not require prior Cloudpunk knowledge.
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ION LANDS has said it intends to support the game after launch. A detailed update schedule, expansion list or season pass has not been announced.
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Windows PC is confirmed through Steam and Epic Games Store. Official listings do not currently confirm PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, native macOS or native Linux versions.
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Yes. The Windows Steam release is scheduled for September 29, 2026, and the store lists achievements, Steam Cloud and Family Sharing.
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Yes. The official Epic Games Store page lists a Windows version as Coming Soon, but it does not currently display the September 29 date shown on Steam.
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No console version is currently announced in the official platform listings. This means console support is unconfirmed, not that a later port is impossible.
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Steam lists a 64-bit processor and operating system with Windows 10 or Windows 11 for both minimum and recommended configurations.
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The current minimum and recommended Steam specifications both list 16 GB of RAM.
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Steam currently lists 30 GB of available storage. An SSD is recommended, but it is not listed as a minimum requirement.
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The minimum asks for a dedicated GPU with at least 6 GB VRAM. The recommended tier asks for 8 GB VRAM; the current storefront wording gives “GTX 2070 or newer” as its example.
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Steam lists English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Turkish for interface and subtitles.
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English is the only language currently marked for full audio on Steam. The other ten listed languages are marked for interface and subtitles.
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The Steam page lists controller support as well as keyboard and mouse input. Exact controller layouts and device-specific behavior should be checked in the release build.
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Nivalis Nights is listed as a single-player game. Online co-op, local co-op and competitive multiplayer are not currently announced.
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The city is divided into large, detailed districts that can be freely explored. Loading screens occur when moving between districts.
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ION LANDS says most business interiors can be explored within a district. Exact access may still depend on the venue, story state or opening hours.
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No. Cars are not player-drivable. HOVA taxis and trains handle district travel, while the player can directly control a boat.
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The player can pilot a personal boat through city waterways, reach areas away from roads and access additional fishing locations.
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Yes. ION LANDS describes loading screens during district changes, even though exploration within each large district is free.
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Fish are visible physical entities rather than hidden random rolls. They can form shoals and react to bait, and the simulation can support more than 1,000 fish.
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Yes. The developer says day and night create different opportunities, and curfew is one factor affecting after-dark activity. Exact schedules are not yet public.
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Official descriptions mention fishing, boating, apartment decoration, arcade games, bowling, dancing, sightseeing and photography among the city activities.
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Confirmed examples include food stalls, noodle stands, stim stores, bars, restaurants and nightclubs. The game supports hiring, upgrades and expansion into new districts.
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Yes. ION LANDS says players can own multiple venues, apartments and houses across the city. Exact ownership limits have not been published.
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Yes. Players can hire and manage staff so venues can continue operating while the player spends time elsewhere. Detailed staff roles and limits remain unconfirmed.
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Yes. Players can rent multiple greenhouses and grow mushrooms, grains and vegetables using temperature, humidity and light controls.
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Machines and advanced modules can automate processes such as irrigation. The final costs, unlock requirements and full automation limits are not yet published.
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Yes. Players can accept paid interior-design jobs and must follow client instructions, taste and furnishing requirements.
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The developer says buying regularly from certain vendors might produce better prices. This is conditional and should not be treated as a universal discount rule.
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A May 2026 update reports more than 240 ingredients, 190 meals, 100 quests and 620 furniture items. These totals do not reveal every individual name or recipe.
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Official development material describes personal, kitchen, greenhouse and home storage contexts. Exact capacities and transfer rules should be verified in the release build.
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ION LANDS says more than 130 authored characters have their own goals, backgrounds and personalities, separate from the thousands of ambient city NPCs.
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Friendship, rivalry, business partnership and romance are the four relationship paths named by the developer. Not every character is confirmed to support every path.
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Yes. Romance is confirmed as one relationship type, but no complete romance-candidate list, gift table or universal romance process has been officially published.
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Yes. The Ghost simulation system preserves NPC schedules across districts at different levels of detail, including when characters are not visible.
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Yes. The developer says interactions and choices can lead to different dialogue and side-quest outcomes for the authored cast.
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Relationships can change the route a player takes toward the intended story ending and can also affect side-quest outcomes and economic opportunities.
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Salt Pete is a robot ferryman at the docks who wears a straw hat and operates a makeshift ferry across the bay. No full quest chain or schedule is public yet.
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Yes. ION LANDS says the game has a beginning, an end and a specific intended ending, even though choices can change the path taken to reach it.
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The developer confirms different routes and outcomes but has not published an exact number of endings. Claims about multiple final endings remain unconfirmed.
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A May 2026 development update reports more than 100 quests. Exact names, prerequisites, rewards and branches have not all been published.
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The developer says major story beats connect to gameplay systems and provide rewards. Specific reward lists must wait for official details or verified release play.
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Yes. Choices can affect dialogue, character relationships, side-quest results and the route through the story, while the game still has an authored destination.
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Official story descriptions place CorpSec enforcement and a curfew among the pressures shaping life in the city. Exact curfew rules and penalties are not yet public.
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Facts are checked against the official Steam store page, the official Epic Games Store listing and ION LANDS development news and Q&A. Store metadata may change before release, so platform, language and system-requirement answers are reviewed after major announcements.
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Yes. The official FAQ describes Nivalis Nights as a first-person experience designed to present the city at full scale.
No full virtual-avatar appearance editor is currently planned; the official FAQ says players mainly see their character’s arms and hands.
Yes. ION LANDS explicitly confirms a photo mode for capturing the city and its environments.
Yes. Official descriptions call it a cyberpunk slice-of-life simulation combining daily choices, work, relationships, homes and leisure.
Steam lists RPG as a genre alongside Adventure and Simulation, reflecting authored quests, choices, relationships and progression.
No. Greenhouse growing is one supply activity inside a broader city-life, business, relationship and story simulation.
Yes. The Steam requirements explicitly list keyboard and mouse as an input option alongside a controller.
Yes. Both published PC specification tiers require a 64-bit processor and a 64-bit operating system.
DirectX 11 is the published minimum API requirement, while DirectX 12 appears in the recommended tier.
An SSD is recommended rather than listed as mandatory; the minimum tier only specifies 30 GB of available storage.
ION LANDS reports more than 620 furniture items, but it has not published every name, price or unlock method.
Development information reports more than 240 ingredients spanning purchasing, growing, storage and meal preparation.
ION LANDS reports more than 190 meals, though the complete recipe list and final values remain unpublished.
No. The developer reports more than 100 quests, but a complete official name, trigger and reward list is not available.
A January 2026 update says voice-over implementation covered more than 135 main and secondary characters.
ION LANDS reports optimizing more than 40 interface windows and panels across inventory, business, quest and content workflows.
The development update says the system remembers more than 10,000 objects, including placed furniture, dishes and changed states.
ION LANDS says the physical fishing system can support more than 1,000 fish at once; this is not a species count.
Official development material shows distinct personal, kitchen, greenhouse and home storage contexts serving different activities.
Yes. Development material links exploration and progression with finding recipes rather than presenting every meal as immediately available.
The official publisher description presents a humble noodle stand as the starting point before larger restaurants and nightclubs.
Yes. Nightclubs are repeatedly named among the venue types players can own and manage.
Yes. An official development example describes staff serving prepared meals while the player is in another district.
A developer example says a level-three manager can take over restocking, reducing the player’s daily manual workload.
Yes. Official greenhouse information says players can rent multiple greenhouse spaces to expand ingredient production.
Yes. The greenhouse system includes controls for temperature, humidity and light alongside equipment and crop planning.
Yes. ION LANDS describes machines and advanced modules that can automate processes such as irrigation.
Yes. Official features explicitly let players buy ingredients or grow supplies, creating alternative sourcing routes.
Yes. Players can accept interior-design work for other residents and follow client tastes and furnishing requirements.
Yes. The official store warns that the sabotage used against competitors can also happen to the player.
No. The official FAQ says there are currently no plans for Camus to return, despite the shared Cloudpunk setting.
No. The 130-plus figure describes authored characters with goals and backgrounds, separate from the larger ambient population.
Yes. A production update reported reviewing over 6,000 auditions; that number is not the final actor count.
The Ghost system uses three detail levels for distant, nearby-unseen and currently visible NPCs.
Yes. The Ghost simulation preserves schedules at reduced technical detail when characters are distant or unseen.
Yes. Friendship is one of the four relationship directions explicitly named by ION LANDS.
Yes. Rivalry is a confirmed relationship direction alongside friendship, business partnership and romance.
Yes. Business partnership is one of the confirmed relationship paths and can connect social choices with economic opportunities.
No complete romance roster is published, and the four relationship types do not mean every character supports every path.
Yes. Developer Q&A material says relationships can influence economic opportunities as well as dialogue and story routes.
No. ION LANDS describes an authored story with a beginning, a destination and an ending despite flexible daily activities.
Yes. Official Q&A answers say interactions can produce different dialogue and side-quest outcomes for authored characters.
Yes. The May update links major story beats with gameplay systems and rewards, though final reward lists are unpublished.
Yes. The current publisher description places a mysterious serial killer among the pressures affecting the player’s district.
Yes. Official store copy describes a district pushed toward crisis by CorpSec crackdowns.
Yes. Official features mention avoiding security systems during curfew while attempting sabotage against competitors.
Development information connects Achievement Points with progression and access to additional areas of Nivalis.
Yes. The developer confirms different routes toward an intended destination but has not published a final ending count.
Development reporting places the voiced narrative at roughly 200,000 words, without dividing the total by quest or character.
Yes. ION LANDS describes authored residents and their responsive side quests as a major part of the overall experience.