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Nyheim

Nyheim

Nyheim is a single-player digital boardgame about rebuilding the titular city of Nyheim after a lethal pandemic. As survivors of the disease, your party must explore the districts of Nyheim, face mutated rats, gather supplies and lead the efforts towards a new society!

Released Jan 31, 2017 Developer Happy Hobgoblin Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux StrategySurvivalBoard GameSingleplayerDifficult
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-13)

What players say

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

65.0%positive80 reviews
Recommended · 28 found this helpful

“Fun game! Definitely took the entire tutorial to get things firmly figured out. And there is a learning curve, for sure. My first few games were riddled with big mistakes, which immediately cost me the game. But, it was fun enough that I wanted to keep at it. Got really far…”

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

“Good game overall, A bit to easy when you figure it out. Basically a card/dice board game of exploration and rebuilding in a post-apocalyptic environment. For something which is heavily abstracted into dice, cards and symbols, it manages to get across a good atmosphere of…”

— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played
Not recommended · 54 found this helpful

“Nyheim takes the setup of Rebuild and tweaks it more resemble a dice driven solitaire boardgame. Instead of zombies, it's killer mutated diseased rats. Move around searching, getting new characters and items, averting random event crises, and trying to fulfill quests. You can…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 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.

12achievements
7.5%median completion
6.7%rarest: Hoarder
13.1% of players 8.9% of players 8.2% of players 7.8% of players 7.6% of players 7.5% of players 7.5% of players 7.1% of players 7.0% of players 7.0% of players 7.0% of players 6.7% of players 13.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
13.1%Redshirt — Kill a character on the same turn when you receive it
8.9%Just a flesh wound — Have all your dice force-spent
8.2%Completionist — Experience every ending
Rarest badges of honor
6.7%Hoarder — Win a game without having used food for rerolling
7.0%Third wheel — Win a game without extra character unlocks
7.0%I've got hands — Win a game without taking items for the party

Latest official news

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

Jan 10, 2022
Dissolution of Happy Hobgoblin

Hello, enjoyers of Happy Hobgoblin's labor fruits! To save you some time in you busy schedule, the summary of this post is that Happy Hobgoblin is going to dissolve and all its games, including this o

Mar 01, 2017
Update 2

Balance - Rebalanced all location loot probabilities - Snow storm setback can now trigger multiple times and stacks - Snow (Hardship card) countdown reduced - Cold snap setback now spawns threats on w

Mar 01, 2017
Update 2

Balance - Rebalanced all location loot probabilities - Snow storm setback can now trigger multiple times and stacks - Snow (Hardship card) countdown reduced - Cold snap setback now spawns threats on w

Feb 04, 2017
Update 1

Small bug fix patch to address most critical issues with an added bonus of more character names. - Fixed couple of bugs that caused the game to freeze - Minor UI tweaks - Added ~800 more names to char

Feb 04, 2017
Update 1

Small bug fix patch to address most critical issues with an added bonus of more character names. - Fixed couple of bugs that caused the game to freeze - Minor UI tweaks - Added ~800 more names to char

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

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

GenresStrategy
Player tagsStrategy · Survival · Board Game · Singleplayer · Difficult · Rogue-lite (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , Finnish *
Achievements12
Official sitehttp://happyhobgoblin.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DX9 (shader model 3.0) DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 300 MB available space