Nivalis Nights Sets Cyberpunk Life in a Ramen Shop You Inherit
ION LANDS keeps working the same seam it opened with Cloudpunk, building cyberpunk games about ordinary economic life in the city rather than the fighting over it, and this one puts the player on the ledger instead of in the street.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
ION LANDS released Nivalis Nights on Steam on September 29, 2026, with 505 Games publishing. The management adventure puts the player in the cyberpunk city of Nivalis as the new owner of a ramen shop, carrying the debt that came with it. The German studio behind Cloudpunk bills the game as a cyberpunk slice-of-life simulation, and it is played in first person.
The game opens with a foggy morning, a missing memory, and an assistant AI named Ava telling you that Thaddeus is handing over the shop. He leaves Nivalis. The ramen shop comes with a large debt and a daily repayment you have to meet. Staff can be assigned, the menu set, ingredients stocked.
Nivalis is under CorpSec crackdowns and a serial killer investigation that has cut the district off from the outside. That concentration of residents is also the business opportunity the story hands you. From there the days are the player's to spend: grow the business, befriend residents, grow ingredients legally, or sabotage rivals on curfew nights.
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