Nurikabe World

Nurikabe World

Released Jan 2025

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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Evaluation

Nurikabe World launched on January 13, 2025 as a complete puzzle game featuring handcrafted campaigns, infinite puzzle generation, and a level editor. In the weeks following launch, the developer shipped a series of patches addressing player feedback — fixing puzzle solutions, adjusting difficulty progression, adding localizations, and improving the editor. The most substantial post-launch update was Patch 1.1.0 on February 22, 2025, which added Steam Workshop integration, enabling players to share and browse community-created puzzles from within the game. After that update (and its subsequent hotfixes through early March 2025), no further developer communications have been posted. The only DLC listed is the game's soundtrack, which is already released. No unreleased DLC, announced expansions, or developer statements about future content exist. The game appears to have launched as a feature-complete product, received a meaningful quality-of-life update shortly after release, and has since settled into a finished state.
Evidence
Patch 1.1.0 added Steam Workshop support, a new User Levels browser, and upload tools — the most substantial post-launch update, followed by numerous hotfixes through mid-March 2025.
news post · Feb 22, 2025 source content shipped
high
Post-launch patch 1.0.10 fixing puzzle solutions and adjusting campaign difficulty. Developer noted they do not expect puzzles to be updated in the future unless there are significant issues.
news post · Jan 15, 2025 source development ongoing
medium

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

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Details

Developer
Publisher
Hemisquare
Achievements
15
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

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!

Last evaluated Jun 20, 2026
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