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Nightwater

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.

Release date
September 18, 2026
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Studio Ashty
Publisher
Studio Ashty, Irox Games
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About Nightwater

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.…

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★ 8.4/10Steam · 181 ratings
SteamLast checked November 3, 2026

Most helpful8

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…
Not recommended
Way to much focus on the automation aspect with very little return. I've spent most of this running around clicking instead. That fuel minigame though?…
Recommended
its a fun rpg style game, mine trees and rocks while gaining materials to make better tools.
Recommended
A really nice, first person factory game with a few incremental games for some extras. It sits between factory and incremental game and therefore is…
Recommended
very fun but keeps crashing for some dumb reason already raised the ram usage possible for my pc and have fully downloaded latest nvidia graphics…
Recommended
Quite a good game, wouldn't call it an automation game so much though. Made it to 100% without ever really needing to worry too much…
Recommended
After playing and completing the game, I can say it's very good. I love the calming music as you try to automate your set up.…
Recommended
If you're looking for a chill game, try this out. It's a gathering/automation game with no enemies or time limits. Just click and build. Some…

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Recommended
its a fun rpg style game, mine trees and rocks while gaining materials to make better tools.
Recommended
A really nice, first person factory game with a few incremental games for some extras. It sits between factory and incremental game and therefore is…
Recommended
very fun but keeps crashing for some dumb reason already raised the ram usage possible for my pc and have fully downloaded latest nvidia graphics…
Recommended
Quite a good game, wouldn't call it an automation game so much though. Made it to 100% without ever really needing to worry too much…
Recommended
10/10 would 100% tell people to play this not very long games but still good

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