System Requirements

System Requirements

Nivalis Nights is a Windows PC game released on Steam on September 29, 2026 (App ID 1488490). The publisher announced the Epic Games Store version separately without a release date. No console versions have been announced, and the developers have said they are not currently exploring Mac or Linux versions. The game runs on Unity, the same engine used for Cloudpunk, with a denser voxel-built city. The September 24 hardware update replaced the earlier generic specifications with named processors, graphics cards and performance targets.

Hardware Specifications

Specification Notes

Both tiers require a 64-bit processor and operating system and 16 GB RAM. The minimum and recommended figures apply to different resolution and graphics-preset targets. They are published requirements, rather than a promise that every scene will run at the stated frame rate.

The minimum graphics tier lists 6 GB VRAM and GTX 1660 SUPER, RTX 3050, Radeon RX 6600 or Intel Arc A750 hardware. The recommended tier lists an RTX 4070 or Radeon RX 7800 XT with at least 12 GB VRAM. The targets are 1080p at 30 FPS on very low and 1440p at 60 FPS on high, both at native resolution without upscaling. The listed laptop equivalents are RTX 4050 Laptop at minimum and RTX 4080 Laptop or RTX 5080 Laptop at recommended. The requirements warn that mobile GPUs perform below their desktop equivalents.

Storage is 42 GB at both tiers, and both require an SSD. The earlier 30 GB listing has been replaced. Keep the game storage requirement separate from the optional soundtrack download, which has its own storage figures.

Platform Availability

The launch announcement said Steam Deck would not have full support at launch and that the developers were working on hardware support and performance. That is a support statement, not a claim that the game cannot run on the device. The same announcement confirmed availability through GeForce NOW.

On consoles the developers have been consistent rather than silent: PC is the current focus, and other platforms are something they are looking into without any commitment or timing attached. That is why the console rows above read as not announced rather than ruled out. Mac and Linux are further away still, described as something the team is not exploring at the moment, with any change to be announced through the official channels.

Steam Features

Nivalis supports several Steam platform features.

Full controller support means you can play the entire game with a gamepad, including menus, the business management interface, and cooking interactions. The game was designed with both keyboard/mouse and controller inputs in mind, so neither input method feels like an afterthought. Ultrawide monitor support is confirmed, which is worth noting for a game with detailed environmental art; the extra horizontal field of view should enhance the sense of being inside the city's dense lower levels. The listing separately declares DualSense controller support, so a PlayStation pad is recognized natively alongside the usual gamepads. As of 21 September 2026 the listing does not say which DualSense-specific capabilities, such as haptic feedback or adaptive triggers, are actually driven, only that the controller is supported.

Offline play is supported. Nivalis Nights is a singleplayer-only game with no online functionality, and the developers have said you do not need an internet connection beyond whatever the storefront requires to update the game. Cloud saves need a connection to synchronize progress across machines. The revised September 24 requirements do not carry the broadband row that appeared in the earlier block.

Accessibility and Comfort Features

The store listing now carries a set of accessibility and comfort capability tags alongside the usual platform features. These are declared by the developers rather than inferred, so they are a reliable picture of what the game commits to at launch.

Two of these matter more than they might sound. "Playable at your own pace" and "playable without timed input" together mean the game does not gate progress behind reaction speed or timed button presses, which fits a slice-of-life sim built around a 2 AM curfew rather than around twitch skill. "Save anytime" means you are not tied to sleeping or to fixed checkpoints to bank progress. Camera comfort is a first-person-specific tag, covering things like field of view and camera movement, which is worth knowing given the game is played entirely in first person.

Nivalis Nights is available to buy and play. Its announced base prices are USD 24.99, EUR 24.99 and GBP 21.99. The Steam listing checked on October 6, 2026 showed a 10% launch discount, with USD 22.49 as the discounted US price; by October 13 the discount had ended and the listing showed the full base prices. No demo was listed in the current game metadata. The hardware targets remain the developers' published figures, rather than independent benchmark results.

Supported Languages

Nivalis supports 11 text languages at launch. Voice acting is in English only.

All 11 languages include full text localization for the game's roughly 200,000 words of dialogue. The roughly 135 voiced characters have English-only performances. ION LANDS conducted over 8,000 auditions for more than 100 speaking roles.

Additional Details

Optimization and Performance Targets

Before release, the developers described a target of 60 frames per second, giving a frame budget of 16.66 milliseconds. They reduced memory allocations to limit garbage-collection stutter. The final published specifications now attach explicit preset and resolution targets to the two hardware tiers, while post-release updates continue to address performance.

Several techniques support that goal. Because the world is built from voxels but does not use a traditional voxel engine, it carries much higher polygon counts than usual, so the game relies heavily on multiple levels of detail (LODs) to keep rendering costs down. The light probes that capture environmental lighting were completely overhauled, and furniture assets were polished, which together cut memory usage significantly. An NPC "Ghost system" simulates characters at three tiers of detail depending on whether they are out of district, in the player's district but hidden, or visible, and an object-pooling system reuses a managed pool of more than 10,000 elements such as tables, chairs, and dishes instead of constantly creating and destroying them. These systems are why a dense, detailed city like Nivalis can target smooth performance on mid-range hardware. The city's lighting combines baked light probes, real-time lighting and volumetric lighting.

Quality Assurance and Localization Testing

Ahead of release, Nivalis went through three separate quality-assurance teams. ION LANDS' own internal team tested new features and bug fixes inside the editor and on Steam builds. Once a build was pushed to the Steam testing branches, the publisher's primary QA team and an external partner studio, Quantic Lab, took over. Between them they covered general stability and blocker identification, save and load functionality, quest and story progression, environments and movement and interactions, character simulation, the user interface, and memory consumption and performance.

A dedicated team handled localization testing for all 11 supported languages, including verifying that the English voiceover stays synchronized and that on-screen text is accurate in every language. For Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, the team baked two optimized fonts per language before each translation update so that every required character is available. The external partner also assisted with compatibility testing, working from Steam hardware-survey data to validate a range of configurations and to finalize the minimum and recommended specifications shown on the store page.

Performance Expectations

The published minimum target is 1080p at 30 FPS on very low; the recommended target is 1440p at 60 FPS on high. Both use native resolution without upscaling. Actual performance varies with the scene and configuration, and the developers have continued optimizing the released game. Update #1 addressed character-action, animation, physics and save-load camera performance. Update #3 improved crowd simulation and animation and fixed light probes from unloaded scenes remaining in memory in The Stacks.

Update #2 added a Lighting Details slider. At the far right, light culling is disabled; moving it left deactivates lights based on distance. The same update removed the Low texture-quality option and moved existing Low users to Medium, with a confirmation and progress display for texture changes. Update #3 corrected lighting issues introduced with Lighting Details. Update #2 also described a temporary workaround for a performance drop after fast travel: save after arrival and reload that save. This is a dated workaround from the October 2 notes, rather than a guarantee that every performance problem has the same cause.

Update #4 on October 9, 2026 added five more graphics options and reduced memory pressure while travelling. When the PC is low on memory, the game now unloads the previous area before loading the next one, which lengthens loading but should lower the risk of a crash; taxi rides and transition cinematics also use slightly less memory.

Upscaling is not available. The developers' official FAQ explains that the Unity version the game uses is too old to support DLSS, FSR or other upscaling technologies, and that upgrading the engine during development would have added too much risk; they said they were evaluating whether upscaling could be added in the future. As of October 13, 2026, no update has added it.