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Nightwater

82% positive of 150 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Studio Ashty. Published by Studio Ashty, Irox Games.

About the game

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.

Tagged by players

  • Automation
  • Farming
  • Incremental
  • Idler
  • Open World
  • Resource Management
  • Mining
  • Crafting
  • Base Building
  • Sandbox
  • Building
  • Relaxing

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    Some of the best automation games find ways to mix the factory goals with other mechanics. Nightwater does this with semi-incremental minigames. This makes a pretty good impression in the demo, but it isn't enough to sustain a whole game. The diversions just don't have the depth or integration to stand as more than temporary distractions, and the poor controls and lackluster factory building mechanics keep this from…

    21 h played when written. 13 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    This is almost a recommend, but the gameplay loop is too shallow. This almost looks like a factory automation game, but don't get confused; Unlike most automation game, the gameplay discourages building actual factories. For example, the miners mine resources that you need to unlock progression. However, you don't get credit for mining those resources unless you take them out of the miner. It doesn't count if you…

    15 h played when written. 9 found it helpful.

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