NIVALIS
Developer Ion Lands Publisher 505 Games Format PC Release TBA
It’s a surprise, really, that this doesn’t happen more often. Having painstakingly assembled a richly atmospheric and lavishly detailed cyberpunk city, voxel by voxel, it would have been a real waste for Ion Lands to leave the Blade Runner-inspired metropolis of Cloudpunk behind. So it hasn’t: the city of Nivalis is now home to a slice-of-life sim in which you trade delivery runs for the chance to run your own business. You get to choose how you make your way in this world, whether it’s by buying and cooking ingredients as a restaurateur or ramen-stand owner, or mixing cocktails for partygoers at a nightclub. With extensive design tools you can build the store and home of your dreams, or take a break to enjoy a spot of fishing. Cloudpunk’s biggest problem was that it didn’t offer enough to do in its captivating setting; that doesn’t look like it will be an issue here.