Nightwater

Incremental factory building on an island you expand with new biomes

Studio Ashty · Published by Studio Ashty, Irox Games · Released Sep 18, 2026

Adventure Casual Indie Simulation Strategy

Reviews: Very Positive; 83% of 164
Recent reviews: Mostly Positive; 77% of 40 in 30 days
Players: 16; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update on Steam: 1 month ago; Sep 23, 2026
Minimum PC: GTX 1650; 8 GB RAM · 10 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Nightwater?

Nightwater is a single-player resource-management game set on an island floating in a sea of void and starlight. You gather materials, craft tools, and connect machines with pipes to automate increasingly complex production chains. Your goal is to reach the Lighthouse and uncover its secrets.

For you if...

+you prefer a calm pace and gradual resource progression

Not for you if...

−you want the story told directly rather than assembled from clues

What players say

83% of 164 reviews are positive · 77% of 40 in the last 30 days

Players praise the art style and the variety minigames add to factory building. Common player complaints concern shallow automation, repetitive gathering, and awkward pipe connections and building controls.

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Nightwater system requirements

Minimum: GTX 1650, 8 GB RAM, 10 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

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

Does Nightwater have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Nightwater run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
External controllers are not supported for the primary player

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Full controller support
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 40
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Languages: Full audio: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Bosnian, Portuguese - Portugal, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese.

Does Nightwater use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam