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Nine Noir Lives

Nine Noir Lives

Stretch your legs, clean your whiskers, and dive into Nine Noir Lives. Enjoy a "point-and-lick" comedy-noir adventure, full of humour, crazy characters, and intriguing locations. Solve challenging puzzles and answer the immortal question: how many things need to be licked to solve a murder in this t

Released Sep 7, 2022 Developer Silvernode Games Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux Point & ClickComedy2DNoirCute
View on Steam ↗ $19.99 (US · as of 2026-05-15)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

88.8%positive160 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Nine Noir Lives is a charming detective adventure that proves traditional point-and-click games still have plenty of room for creativity. Developed and published by Silvernode Games, the title blends classic noir inspirations with a whimsical world populated entirely by cats,…”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Poor Ramon....though at least he got the last word in...sort of. Thoroughly enjoyed this fun (but with a serious message at times about drugs), point & click game. Great story that was well thought out with an enjoyable ending and plenty of game time. Took me 10hours to finish;…”

— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Tongues appear. Things get licked. This is the way of the world, Rrramon.”

— a player, Steam review · 14 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 2026-09-28.

43achievements
41.0%median completion
10.4%rarest: Space-Tabby Rides Again!
80.9% of players 80.6% of players 77.2% of players 68.9% of players 65.5% of players 64.4% of players 56.2% of players 54.2% of players 53.8% of players 53.5% of players 50.8% of players 49.1% of players 48.4% of players 48.2% of players 45.9% of players 45.7% of players 45.3% of players 44.4% of players 42.6% of players 41.5% of players 41.0% of players 41.0% of players 41.0% of players 40.8% of players 40.1% of players 39.8% of players 39.7% of players 39.2% of players 39.1% of players 38.8% of players 38.7% of players 38.7% of players 38.2% of players 38.1% of players 38.1% of players 38.0% of players 37.9% of players 37.9% of players 37.7% of players 37.6% of players 37.3% of players 35.2% of players 10.4% of players 80.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
80.9%IP Justice! — Intellectual property justice will not be stopped!
80.6%Ahmbiahnce — You gotta have fire. It's for the ambience.
77.2%Rrramon — My new best friend!
Rarest badges of honor
10.4%Space-Tabby Rides Again! — Hidden achievement
35.2%Evidencezilla — Hidden achievement
37.3%Ready for Revenge — Hidden achievement

Latest official news

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

Jul 21, 2024
Controller support and updated engine released!

We have released the controller support & engine updates advertised last year on the main branch! As previously discussed, this adds support for controllers in line with the support added to our recen

Oct 06, 2023
Coming Soon: Update 1.1.0 (now in open beta)

Hello detectives! As mentioned quite a while ago, we've been working on a new update for NNL. The primary goal for this update was to upgrade our engine to the newer version to hopefully address some

Nov 22, 2022
The Steam Awards 2022

This is what it's all been building up to. All the writing, the editing, the characters...all if it was calculated with surgical precision to make us maybe have a chance at this award. Remember, when

Nov 15, 2022
Mac update

A small fix has been released to resolve a rare crash on some audio lines on Mac only.

Sep 24, 2022
Patch 1.0.2

Fix for art overlapping Cuddles in Bartholomew's office. Fix for Cuddles switching to his regular outfit when using certain items on Tybalt while in pickle form. Fix for art overlapping character in a

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresAdventure, Indie
Player tagsPoint & Click · Comedy · 2D · Noir · Cute · Detective · Relaxing · Funny · Story Rich · Puzzle · Cartoony · Hand-drawn (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , German *
Achievements43
Official sitehttp://www.nnlgame.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista SP1 Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core CPU Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series, Geforce 9400 Series with at least 512 MB VRAM DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 5000 MB available space Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card with latest drivers