Activity briefingSummary of recorded signals
SteamWatch briefingSummary of recorded signals

Nightwater Activity Briefing

Recent player activity shows a notable decrease, while the game maintains strong overall reviews.

  • Current player count is 16, reflecting a drop of over 51% in the last six hours.
  • The game has received a total of 168 reviews on Steam, with approximately 84% positivity.
  • The price of the game is currently set at £13.99, with no discounts available.
Steam player data · App 3983860

Nightwater

View on Steam ↗Updated 22 Oct · 10:50 UTC
  • Single-player
  • Steam Achievements
  • Full controller support
  • Adjustable Text Size
  • Camera Comfort
  • Color Alternatives
  • Custom Volume Controls
  • Adjustable Difficulty
Steam

Store data

UK price
£13.99
US price
$13.49
Positive reviews
84%
Total reviews
170
Release date
18 September 2026
Concurrent players14Most recent successful sample
Today's peak2466/144 samples
Tracked peak692Highest retained daily peak
Steam rating84%170 reviews
Steam metadata

Game information

Details supplied by the Steam store
App ID
3983860
App type
Game
Supported systems
Windows
Genres
Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Release date
18 September 2026
Last player update
22 Oct · 10:50 UTC
Steam store data

System requirements

Supplied by the developer on Steam

Windows

Minimum
Requirement
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS
Windows 10 or later (64-Bit)
Processor
i5-3570 3.4 GHz 4 Core
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
Nvidia GTX 1650/GTX 1050-ti, or AMD RX 470/RX 570, or equivalent performance & VRAM
Storage
10 GB available space
Recommended
Requirement
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS
Windows 11 or later (64-Bit)
Processor
Ryzen 5 5600X or i5-12400 or equivalent performance, 6 physical cores minimum
Memory
12 GB RAM
Graphics
Nvidia RTX 2070 or RX 5700, or equivalent performance & VRAM
Storage
10 GB available space

Linux

Minimum
OS
Ubuntu 18.04, SteamOS 3.0, or later
Processor
Zen 2
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
Nvidia GTX 1050
Storage
5 GB available space
Recommended
OS
Ubuntu 18.04, SteamOS 3.0, or later
Processor
Zen 2
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
Nvidia GTX 1050
Storage
5 GB available space

Launch window

Released 18 September 2026 · Tracking from 18 September 2026

SteamWatch’s first observed day and week; tracking can begin after release. Top Sellers is Steam’s revenue ranking, not a sales estimate.

First observed dayComplete
Player peak
463
Steam reviews
0Rating not recorded
Twitch peak
Not recorded
Price observed
£12.59
Top Sellers
No appearanceNo ranked days

1 player-data day recorded in this window.

First observed weekComplete
Player peak
692
Steam reviews
11884% positive
Twitch peak
Not recorded
Price observed
£12.59
Top Sellers
No appearanceNo ranked days

7 player-data days recorded in this window.

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Player history

Concurrent players

Peak 35Average 23Latest 14
0918263521 Oct 2026, 11:00 UTC22 Oct 2026, 10:00 UTC

24-hour and 7-day views use hourly peaks from ten-minute samples. Longer views use retained daily peaks. Up to 24 recent event markers are shown per layer.

Twitch

Twitch stats

Awaiting the first Twitch sample.
Long-term history

Monthly players breakdown

Calculated from SteamWatch samples
MonthPeakGain% gainAverageAvg % gain
Last 30 days300-392-56.6%77-80.5%
October 2026136-556-80.3%47-79.9%
September 2026692——235—
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About this game

Description

Supplied by the Steam store

A new reality materializes. You find yourself on a solitary island, floating on a sea of liquid void and starlight, ringed by impassable mountains. This world is a mysterious place, yet strangely familiar.

Welcome to Nightwater , where you must master a new reality. Transform raw resources from simple sticks and stones into an industrial factory. Progress your technology through the ages, from primitive tools to modern machines and beyond. Expand the island by manifesting new biomes into existence to harvest their unique resources. Master multiple minigames to unlock powerful buildings and receive strong buffs.

All your efforts serve a single purpose: to reach the Lighthouse and uncover its secrets.

Nightwater is a game about gathering, collecting, and managing resources. There are multiple unique biomes, each with its own resources and secrets to unveil. Every resource features its own progression: gather by hand or automate with machines to hit each resource’s milestone goals and unlock new buildings, crafts, and powerful buffs. Explore every biome to discover 20+ resources and gain access to 100+ buildings, crafts, and buffs.

It’s fun to gather resources yourself, but it’s even more fun to build machines that do the work for you! Choose from 60+ buildings to construct farmers, assemblers, and storage units, link them with pipes, and automate every part of your production chain. You can build as many machines as you want and move or deconstruct them at any time without losing items. Automate all resources and their crafts, and unlock powerful late game buildings to make your factories faster, more efficient, and even bigger!

Use the time while your machines handle the work to progress in one of five unique minigames. Each minigame features its own gameplay loop, items, upgrades, and progression, unlocking new buildings, crafts, and buffs you can use outside the minigame to grow your factory and boost efficiency. The minigames are optional, but they offer fresh variety, their own sense of progression, and powerful rewards.

Nightwater tells a deep, personal story that is never handed to you. You’ll need to uncover hidden secrets, read between the lines, and piece together the clues to learn what Nightwater truly is. The story is fully optional, anyone can reach the end without engaging with it, but only players who search for the truth behind Nightwater and the Lighthouse will uncover all four endings and secret areas.

Nightwater is a game full of variety and unique content. As you play, you’ll uncover many secrets as well as experience a story that will make you question what Nightwater truly means to you.

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Screenshots

12 available
Observed momentum

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Compared with the latest two retained daily readings

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