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Very Positive — 100% positive (206 reviews) · 15 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Nurikabe World is a relaxing logic puzzle game where you solve puzzles by creating islands and connecting rivers to create beautiful sceneries. Experience different landscapes and seasons, solve puzzle campaigns and create your own levels.
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Strategy · 2025 · More £5 - £15 games
Dive into Nurikabe World, a strategic puzzle adventure where you craft intricate landscapes by placing islands and rivers. Experience the beauty of different seasons as you solve unique campaigns or design your own levels.
About this game
Nurikabe World is a relaxing logic puzzle game where you solve puzzles by creating islands and connecting rivers to create beautiful sceneries. Nurikabe World reimagines the classic Japanese pen-and-paper puzzle Nurikabe as a 3D game, where islands spring to life with trees and structures. Either play handcrafted puzzles, immerse yourself in the flow of infinitely generated maps or create and share your own puzzles with the integrated level editor.
In Nurikabe World, you create islands by placing water tiles. Each number must be separated into its own island with the indicated number of tiles. Completed islands will grow trees and other structures.
Getting started is easy, you only need to know a few rules to start playing!
All islands must be separated by water
The water must form one connected river
2x2 water squares, called "pools", are not allowed
Nurikabe World has puzzles of all sizes and difficulty levels. The crafted puzzles will take you through breezy 5x5 levels to 15x15 endurance-testing experiences and more. There are also a bunch of difficult smaller puzzles for bite-sized challenges.
Solving harder puzzles will require you to learn advanced solving techniques, which you'll learn along the way.
Nurikabe World has:
Hundreds of hand-crafted puzzles
Different environments, seasons and times of day
Relaxing visuals and music
Infinitely generated puzzles
Intuitive level editor
Daily challenges
Nurikabe World does not have:
City building
Simulation
Multiplayer
Crafting
Hand-crafted puzzle campaign
Journey through a hand-crafted campaign with thematic sets of puzzles. The campaign is split into various difficulty levels and puzzle styles, ranging from simple tutorial maps to mind-bending puzzles. This mode offers a guided tour through Nurikabe World, teaching you valuable solving techniques on the way!
Infinite generation
Attain a flow state while solving an infinite stream of procedurally generated puzzles. Choose from a variety of puzzle generation algorithms and settings, either speeding through simple puzzles or embracing the chaotic difficulty spikes of unpredictable generation. Even though the hardest puzzles may feel impossible, every puzzle is guaranteed to have a unique solution!
Daily challenges
Not sure what to do? Solve the daily Nurikabe World puzzles. Each day there are three hand-curated puzzles with varying difficulty levels.
Nurikabe World is under active development by a few passionate individuals in Finland!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 1 GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 520
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 2.5 GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1050 / AMD RX 560
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 1.1.0 – Steam Workshop Update
Hello everyone! We've been really impressed to see user-made puzzles in our community, and we wanted to add Steam Workshop support to make it easier to share your creations to more players. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45015769/da30d9e822c278d0659bef46ad0bcae15dd652da.png This update adds a new "User Levels" menu, where you can play uploaded levels and campaigns from the Workshop, directly from the game! You can also upload your own creations easily, all you need to do is to right click a level or campaign from the in-game file browser and select "Upload to Workshop". We're really excited to see what you will make! Changelist Steam Workshop support, allowing you to upload and play user-made puzzles and campaigns Added a new User Levels interface for browsing the Workshop from within the game Added "Upload to Workshop" option to the main menu file browser Added an achievement for completing user-made levels Added support for changing the background for custom campaigns Moved local user campaigns to "User Campaigns" folder Support for local user levels Fixed ctrl+click not working as right click in the menus If you have any existing user campaigns .zip files, you should move them to the "User Campaigns" folder for them to show up in the "Local" section of the user campaigns menu. Hotfixes 1.1.0d - Fixed user campaign node locations being incorrect in some system languages 1.1.0e - Fixed the "Following" showing an error if not following anyone 1.1.0e - Fixed the campaign level window going out of bounds from top or bottom 1.1.0e - Added support for pasting Workshop links to the search bar 1.1.0e - Fixed Workshop search showing an unrelated error in some cases 1.1.0e - Fixed searching by workshop ID not finding own files 1.1.0e - Added verification for downloaded campaign integrity 1.1.0i - Added "Hide previously completed" button to the user level/campaign browser 1.1.0i - Changed the description text to be larger on Steam Deck 1.1.0i - Fixed controller selection jumping from th...Read full article on Community Announcements (Hemi_Samuli)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 1.0.15
Just a quick hotfix to a reported issue! Changelist Fixed a missing auto-save file preventing generating a new infinite puzzle Fixed synchronizing partially solved puzzles in Steam CloudRead full article on Community Announcements (Hemi_Samuli)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 1.0.14
The patch adds a Spanish localization, contributed by Rubén Martí! We also heard that the new multiple solution checking logic broke some workflows, so we added an option to use the previous one. Changelist Added Spanish localization Added an option to use the old multiple solution display in the editor, or disable it altogetherRead full article on Community Announcements (Hemi_Samuli)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 1.0.13
We're really happy to see that some people have already used the editor, I recommend checking out some great user puzzles in our Discord! Editor improvements The editor used to display unsure cells as "multiple solutions", but this behavior was pretty confusing. Now only cells that are proven to have multiple solutions are highlighted. If the editor is unable to prove that there is only single solution, but cannot find multiple solutions, it will display a "?" icon. Changelist Improved multiple solution display in editor (see above) Removed difficulty selection from editor as it is not useful with the new multiple solution display The solver has been improved resulting in more varied infinite puzzles The User Code menu can now play pzprjs style links (eg. puzz.link, pzv.jp) Fixed an issue where infinite mode completions were counted incorrectly Fixed in-game input display on non-QWERTY keyboards Minor fixes to UI scaling with localizationsRead full article on Community Announcements (Hemi_Samuli)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 1.0.12
Just a small hotfix this time to a reported issue! Changelist Fixed the game freezing at startup if Steam Runtime initialization fails.Read full article on Community Announcements (Hemi_Samuli)
