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NUTS
NUTS is a single-player walking simulator surveillance mystery. Record the squirrels, report your findings, and piece together what’s really going on in Melmoth Forest.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“A visually stylish game with a neat and compelling mystery at the centre. First off, the graphics style is perfectly suited to the story - the deep hues and pencil-thin outlines make wandering each environment a dreamlike experience. Rocks and trees blend into one another as you…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“really great and fun game, but it's a bit too easy to hit one button and lose an entire save file :< still a beautiful game with cool mechanics and a few surprising twists!”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Visually very interesting. I enjoyed the art style and that the color palette changes with each level. I don't mind a short game. My issue is that the story just seems to cut off. It builds up and then nothing happens, no conclusion, no ends wrapped up. Simon and Nina just…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
NUTS at Save & Sound!
Save & Sound is an online music festival with sales on Steam. Celebrate headbanging soundtracks as well as unique implementations of music and audio in games. NUTS will be 60% off during the festival
Anniversary sale!
NUTS is 1 year old 🎉 50% annivesary sale starts today! To celebrate, we created a little snapshot of Prof. Nina Scholz’s backstory.
NUTS @ Ludonarracon - Game Development Stream
Game Designer on NUTS, Joon Van Hove, will make the squirrel run around in the new forest that Pol made the day before, with suggestions from the chat. This event is part of the series of livestreams
NUTS @ Ludonarracon - Developer AMA Discord + Twitch
To conclude the Ludonarracon festival, Joon will answer questions from the chat and discord while peeking at some behind the scenes development material. This event is the final liverstream the NUTS t
NUTS @ Ludonarracon - Level Design Stream
Lead Artist on NUTS, Pol Clarissou, will make a forest area live on stream. Feel free to suggest ideas and requests in chat or to ask any questions about the process! Game designer Joon will then take
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure, Simulation |
| Player tags | Story Rich · Detective · Nature · Immersive Sim · Narration · Atmospheric · Walking Simulator · Mystery · First-Person · Exploration · FPS · Puzzle (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese * |
| Achievements | 6 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://nuts.game |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or higher 64bit Processor: Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 450 or higher with 1GB Memory DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space