Get ready to move-in and set up a cyberpunk shop with Nivalis Nights!

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After five years of unknown progress, Nivalis Nights is finally releasing next week. It would be funny if they pull back the release day at this point. But it's still one of my most anticipated games of 2026.

Nivalis Nights is a cyberpunk life-sim set in the city of Nivalis. Players will build their home, manage businesses, and create relationships in the cyberpunk city of Nivalis. It is also the same city to its sibling delivery sim game Cloudpunk. 

Perhaps to save more possibilities to the name (and IP) of Nivalis, the game has been rebranded to Nivalis Nights with a release date on September 29 on Steam. Additionally, I have a holiday on the next day. I'm getting this game because there isn't quite like it - a cyberpunk life sim game. 

The game will feature a curfew system which reminds me of Schedule I. The curfew is due to apparent serial crime in the city. I haven't played Cloudpunk yet so I don't know about the gravity of the crime in Nivalis.

Trying to capture the cross between cozy and cyberpunk.

Manage ramen stands or restaurants.

Go fishing or travel through boat.

When we're talking about cyberpunk aesthetics, it may worry some players on hardware. But the recommended system requirements don't demand a supercomputer: RTX 2070 GPU / 16GB RAM. I just realized that the days are gone when we check if the CPU can run it.

Although according the minimum specs states running a 6GB VRAM. Most entry level cards these days sit at 4GB. I think that can still run Nivalis Nights. I don't know about the Steam Deck. Gaming is expensive now with all the increased prices on RAM and GPUs. Including games themselves. But I digress. 

Epic will launch the game on a later date.

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