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Nightwater

Nightwater

Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.

Released Sep 18, 2026 Developer Studio Ashty Publisher Studio Ashty, Irox Games Platforms Windows Open WorldAutomationResource ManagementIncrementalIdler
View on Steam ↗ $13.49 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

84.3%positive127 reviews
Recommended · 20 found this helpful

“If you are expecting Factorio, you're going to have a bad time. If you're expecting a game inspired by Outpath with interesting incremental minigames to play as your automation setups produce materials, then you're going to enjoy it a lot.”

— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played
Recommended · 12 found this helpful

“This game is an instant buy. It's one of the best or maybe even the best indie games this year. It feels completely smooth right from the beginning. I mostly give up on other automation games because I get headaches from weird concepts/mechanics or out of boredom. But the way…”

— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs played
Recommended · 9 found this helpful

“Honestly, this game is already good but lacking of tutorial and somewhatr confusing. also this game need a arm if possible would make the visuals better, rather than just having standard punching animations like clicking games”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

40achievements
22.8%median completion
5.9%rarest: WR Any%
98.2% of players 97.4% of players 97.3% of players 93.1% of players 92.3% of players 88.5% of players 81.9% of players 79.4% of players 64.2% of players 61.8% of players 53.9% of players 43.8% of players 43.5% of players 43.1% of players 33.0% of players 27.1% of players 27.0% of players 25.5% of players 25.0% of players 23.1% of players 22.8% of players 19.5% of players 18.7% of players 17.6% of players 17.3% of players 14.5% of players 13.6% of players 13.5% of players 12.6% of players 12.3% of players 11.6% of players 11.5% of players 11.3% of players 9.8% of players 9.6% of players 9.3% of players 9.1% of players 9.1% of players 8.5% of players 5.9% of players 98.2% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
98.2%Awakened — Awaken in Nightwater
97.4%Foraging — Destroy your first resource
97.3%Constructor — Construct your first building
Rarest badges of honor
5.9%WR Any% — Finish Track 4 in the Volcano Minigame
8.5%Prepared — Craft every piece of Equipment
9.1%Nightwater — Finish Nightwater

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 23, 2026
Minor fixes (1.0.13)

- Fixed infinity pipe item transfer bug - Chili buffed - Pineapple slightly nerfed - Increased Infinity upgrade gold amount in oasis minigame - Fixed a bug that causes craft/building corruption when s

Sep 21, 2026
Minor fixes (1.0.12)

- Fixed Memory Chest - Fixed Lumina Chest - Made Dusk Gold appear higher in the mine - Made Track 4 easier - Fixed permanent movemend speed text in woods minigame

Sep 20, 2026
Minor fixes (1.0.11)

- Renamed Alloy Forge to Simple Metal Smeltery - After leaving Minigame 1 you now directly look at the minigame entrance - Reduced fuel quotas for Minigame 4 - Doubled progression speed for Minigame 5

Sep 18, 2026
Minor fixes (1.0.10)

- Oasis Minigame spelling fixed - Oasis Minigame Icons fixed - Primary Only Upgrade still giving Stone fixed - Reworked Gauntlet Data Rush part, making it easier

Sep 18, 2026
Nightwater is OUT!!!

Hey everyone! It's time, Nightwater is now officially Out!

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAdventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsOpen World · Automation · Resource Management · Incremental · Idler · Crafting · Sandbox · Relaxing · Simulation · Strategy · Building · Base Building (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Adjustable Text Size · Camera Comfort · Color Alternatives · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty
LanguagesEnglish * , French * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Simplified Chinese * , Japanese * , Korean * , Russian * , Bosnian * , Portuguese - Portugal * , Spanish - Latin America * , Traditional Chine…
ControllerFull support
Achievements40
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 or later (64-Bit) Processor: i5-3570 3.4 GHz 4 Core Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1650/GTX 1050-ti, or AMD RX 470/RX 570, or equivalent performance & VRAM Storage: 10 GB available space