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Nurikabe World

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!

Achievements

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Victory Lap

Victory Lap

10.8%

Complete 100 Hard infinite levels

All in a day's work

All in a day's work

14.0%

Complete 100 daily levels

On a Roll

On a Roll

14.2%

Complete 50 Medium infinite levels

Unstoppable

Unstoppable

14.3%

Complete 500 puzzles in total

Uncharted Territory

Uncharted Territory

15.2%

Complete 20 user-made levels

Nurikabe World

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.

Developer

Hemisquare

Publisher

Hemisquare

Release Date

13 January, 2025

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