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Nira
Developer Baseline Games
Explore procedurally generated islands in this fast-paced, sandbox survival adventure filled with building, crafting, fighting, farming and quests. Build a base, hunt, cook, battle ogres, make friends with a mysterious Totem, ride an alpaca, fly a plane and do whatever you need to survive. From the Steam store page
67 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Oct 19, 2026 · last updated Oct 21, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
67
Fresh
28 positive · 14 negative
95% range 52–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 28 | 14 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 9 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
30 of 45 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
67% recommend · 29 yes, 14 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 43 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (64 of 110 positive).
Players praise the game's pixel art style and relaxing gameplay. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the game lacks content and has bugs. [4][5][6] The developer is described as friendly and responsive to feedback. [1][3][7]
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Representative posts
- [4]
I understand that this game is still really new, and bugs are inevitable, but there are a few I've found that I have no idea how they got past anyone testing the game. This game has a lot of potential, but there are things that just seem off, and it feels like the game was rushed. First off, when I got into my world for the first time I noticed that the world generation was messy. Rather than separating different …
- [5]
I'd say leave this one for when it's out of early access and has some things fleshed out and bugs fixed. I pretty much finished the game within 1 hr 30 min, never died, and completed a few dungeons. --Biomes are boring and barren. Deserts are defined as sand and cactus(Palm tree if near water). Plains are defined as grass and trees. Snowey biome is defined by......Snow. There's no substance. --Dungeons are not …
- [1]
Nira is a pixel based RPG which heavily reminds me of the old Holy Grail on the Atari 800 from back in the 80s. The price is very generous for the content, hard time, and updates to come. I purchased this game moment it was released as I could not bare to be without Nira once the beta ended. I had the opportunity to play this game and help with debugging and suggestions along with many others who helped out as well. …
- [2]
Summary: Nira is survival exploration game. Gather resources to survive as you explore the world. Each world is never the same since they are procedurally generated. There are many items to craft and lots of things to do including building a base, farming, fishing, cooking, taming mounts, driving vehicles, and combat. The game is very enjoyable and easy to pick up. I have played almost 10 hours. I start it up and …
- [3]
This game is probably one of the best early access games I've seen. It has an overwhelming amount of potential for future updates, and even now, a week after release, has received loads of patches which have improved the game so much. The graphics are amazing, the music is very fitting and the gameplay is relaxing, yet fast and fun. The developer has been very active, always wanting to know how to improve the game …
Summarised from 34 of the 67 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
67% of the 43 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Nira. The complaint that keeps coming up: lacks content and feels unfinished. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 67 · most liked firstATLYSS is a real fun game, here's my Kubold Fighter, Nira!
positive · AI labelView post →Nira is a pixel based RPG which heavily reminds me of the old Holy Grail on the Atari 800 from back in the 80s. The price is very generous for the content, hard time, and updates to come. I purchased this game moment it was released as I could not bare to be without Nira once the beta ended. I had the opportunity to play this game and help with debugging and suggestions along with many others who helped out as well. The game is quite simple to learn, and very enjoyable. It's one of those games…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another character for the game dev. Nira the Anti-paladin.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll start with the easiest one, microplastics. The reality is that China is at the forefront of ecological advancement and green energy, electrification, combatting desertification, and more. They also produce the world's goodies, while their own *consumption* is far more green than most countries. Western countries built by colonialism, imperialism, and neocolonialism can *produce* more green, using these spoils, but the bulk of their consumption comes from developing countries. In essence,…
neutral · AI labelView post →what's the point of easy/normal/hard difficulty if even on easy inventory is dropped on death and half the unspent xp is also lost? it would be fine otherwise (probably), has a bunch of quality of life stuff (including manual saving over a single slot per game) and the usual gathering/crafting/exploring gameplay, plus animal taming and whatnot. though zooming out and a toggle for the annoying totem gibberish would be really necessary. even more so a setting to pause the game when the inventory…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I understand that this game is still really new, and bugs are inevitable, but there are a few I've found that I have no idea how they got past anyone testing the game. This game has a lot of potential, but there are things that just seem off, and it feels like the game was rushed. First off, when I got into my world for the first time I noticed that the world generation was messy. Rather than separating different biomes into their own area, it was kinda just, snow patch here, desert there, with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting art design but wonky combat and quite a few annoying bugs. Tutorial helper pop up is super annoying and repetitive. Inventory chest get destroyed just by looking in them. Shark is ridiculously fast... cant even grab a resource by the water. Crafting system does not make sense... crude items and guns from level 1? Tier 1 armour has a 15 durability but broke after 2 hits... Definitely still an early access game. Hopefully things get fixed over time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd say leave this one for when it's out of early access and has some things fleshed out and bugs fixed. I pretty much finished the game within 1 hr 30 min, never died, and completed a few dungeons. --Biomes are boring and barren. Deserts are defined as sand and cactus(Palm tree if near water). Plains are defined as grass and trees. Snowey biome is defined by......Snow. There's no substance. --Dungeons are not dungeons. You just get teleported to a dark walled in room where you have to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm aware of the brutality of "artisinal mining," I suggest you reread my comment. I edited it with supporting evidence showing that "artisinal mining" has been falling dramatically as China has gotten involved in developing the DRC's extraction industries, falling to less than 10% from staggering heights of over 50%. Further, I suspect you just had an LLM spit out "evidence of corruption in the CPC" or other such line. That wouldn't make it inherently *wrong*, but there's no link to any…
neutral · AI labelView post →Nira is a pixel based survival rpg where you collect materials to upgrade your tools, armor, weapons, and other various things. You can fish, craft, hunt, tame animals, farm, fly, fight in a dungeon to name a few of the things you can do in Nira. It has a charming pixel art style which drew me into buying the game. The reason I don't recommend the game is because there is really no reason to do any of this. There isn't anything that drives the player to get better gear or do much. The amount of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Survey: Israel has world's most negative perception, lower than North Korea. According to the 2026 Democracy Perception Index, Israel has the most negative perception of all countries in the survey. Israel's net perception score is -24. North Korea is next at -19. Afghanistan is also -19. Iran is -17. The United States is -16. The survey included 46,667 respondents across 85 countries. Switzerland and Canada have the highest perception at +36. The data was published by Visual Capitalist. The…
neutral · AI labelView post →No bad-faith on my part, I explained exactly what I meant by saying you linked it for me again. Again, meaning it has been linked for me many times by different people, not you in particular. This is grammatically correct, but you're using it as a springboard to pretend I can't speak English well or that I'm bad-faith. As for the US, it's a settler-colonial, genocidal empire. It is far more racist than China, which has strong minority protections. This is you, again, being orientalist and…
neutral · AI labelView post →I regret to say that I haven't found much to enjoy with this game. It's derivative (basically another Minecraft/Terraria wannabe). It's painfully unoptimized (despite the retro graphics, the framerate chugs on my PC). The game world feels lonely, and your actions without consequence. It's simply not fun in the way sandbox games can be.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a nice pixel survival game , but not good enough . I real like this game , so I share my feeling . Good part : ) 1 . Pixel is beautiful , simple block can tell you what is it in the game . 2 . Easy to go , every thing you need to learn that you can find in the menu . Bad part :( 1 . Missions are kind boring , find this find that , then give you some exps . I fight in the night with monsters can get more , it is good in the beginning but useless after . Maybe add some different missions…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The source is from the latest [Democracy Perception Index](https://www.niradata.com/dpi), gathered by NIRA data, a western org. And you raise good points, socialist China is clearly doing something right as the west, especially the US Empire, continues to decay. The contrast is stark, and is becoming more and more visible every day!
neutral · AI labelView post →I do and don't enjoy Nira, although i mostly enjoyed it, yet it lacked a lot. After about 5 hours playtime the game was a chill survival experience with the only anger coming from when i would accidentally break my chests while trying to loot them. The world building is very bland, it would be nice to see it in more high scale somehow yet it just seems to be a bunch of islands all that look and have the exact same things on them, wildlife is bland and just runs away all the time, there's no…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Summary: Nira is survival exploration game. Gather resources to survive as you explore the world. Each world is never the same since they are procedurally generated. There are many items to craft and lots of things to do including building a base, farming, fishing, cooking, taming mounts, driving vehicles, and combat. The game is very enjoyable and easy to pick up. I have played almost 10 hours. I start it up and next thing I know an hour or two has gone by. The game is still in Early Access…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Democracy means [rule by the majority.](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democracy) I didn't really broaden the definition of democracy, I stated that democracy has many different forms. Western pluralistic representative democracy in practice is less democratic, as it creates competing blocs of capitalist parties. The ruling class continues to rule, while the majority only experience democratic participation to the extent of participating in the theater of it all. Socialist democracy…
neutral · AI labelView post →And with absolutely no skin in the game I say, give 'em hell, Nira. www.greenparty.ca/en/nira-dook...
neutral · AI labelView post →"I paw$d my game to be here" Nira has that CS2 addiction again, don't let her buy cases! Pls pls pls pls plss follow and repost :3c #puppygirl #puppygirlart #ocsky #doggirl #oc
neutral · AI labelView post →Decided to gather my art together as this year is coming to a close! I actually drew a lot this year and brought my OC Nira to life! I even did some game art (SS14) to top it off! Thanks to everyone for all the support and love throughout the year!! TwT #SonicArt #Sonicfanart #SonicOC #ocsonic
neutral · AI labelView post →looks nice but really isnt
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nira is a very fun survival game. You can build, explore or fight against enemies.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ship art of some catified Squid Game ocs. Nira (left) belongs to my irl friend, Lexi. Beckett (right) belongs to me.
neutral · AI labelView post →Game on! Show your indie comics support by hitting the link for Nira-X Dark Seas 2! Nira’s back! With art and story by Maus- please share and retweet where ever you can! Thanks so much for having fun with us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
neutral · AI labelView post →Very fun survival game. Sorta like Minecraft but different.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I appreciate the flattery, I want to begin with a few misconceptions. First, there is no such thing as "true" socialism. Socialism is not a religion, nor a holy vow, nor scripture to be followed to the letter. Socialism is a material system, one that exists in real life, and is compelled by real forces. Calling someone a true socialist is like calling someone a true scientist, in my opinion. There are scientists with wrong understandings of the world, but we don't call them "false" or…
neutral · AI labelView post →Depends on the game and age of said child, so... Nashita: Mercy Styrngeim: half/half Timid: Mercy Nira: half/half Now if theres ego had or someone needs humbling? All four show no mercy.
neutral · AI labelView post →Very simple gameplay loop with very limited progression. Bad for completionists; the Golden Totem achievement requires a ridiculous amount of xp, which requires a ridiculous amount of searching and farming.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's honestly kind of heartbreaking how much beautiful Nira art was wasted on this piece of shit game lol. Look at these freaks. Kinda moebius kinda guyverlike with a dash of 90s sentai.... the whole booklet is archived here! gamemanual.midnightmeattrain.com/entry/%E3%83...
negative · AI labelView post →Game has 5 hrs or less content, depends. I completely the game is 4 hrs. Knocked out all the achievements and built a decent size base! Lacks lots of content, seems like an alpha.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great Game! Can't wait for future updates, i feel this will be a game i keep coming back to.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ive had this for not even 24 hours and im in love. It really is a beautiful game you can feel the passion, creativity and work that went into building this game. So simple yet captivating and complex i love it its so easy to lose yourself in im thrilled to see where this game goes in the future. yall will love it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Runs like crap , just why? (I meet the recommended specs) Hope it gets optimised
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is probably one of the best early access games I've seen. It has an overwhelming amount of potential for future updates, and even now, a week after release, has received loads of patches which have improved the game so much. The graphics are amazing, the music is very fitting and the gameplay is relaxing, yet fast and fun. The developer has been very active, always wanting to know how to improve the game which is one aspect I feel every game needs, no matter what stage of development…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →REVIEW FROM USER "The Haunter Of Discord" on Discord This game is extremely reminiscent of games of old when people went out to the arcade and played for a quarter, and this game both pays homage to such graphics in a fine manner while reintroducing a common survival genre and in turn, keeping it alive. The gameplay and simpleness yet complexity of the actions you can do makes this feel like one of the "true" natural survival games left: and it's just walked out of the BETA. There's no reason…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool game. Such a nice pixelart game, you can create many tools and several weapons to defend yourself to mobs. Cant wait to play more! will write a more detailed review later :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got this game for only 6 euros. Haven't played much yet but enjoying it so far. Artwork looks great too, would recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not my cup of tea, it felt like another bland survival+crafting game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NyxPaw Game Corner ✦ SNAP JAW caught my eye, so Nira got sent to the worst possible fishing shift. Horror fishing sounds fun until the ocean starts looking back.
neutral · AI labelView post →NyxPaw Game Corner ✦ Been playing Apocalypse Express lately, so Nira got assigned to after-hours train duty. Post-apocalyptic train management sounds cozy until everything starts breaking.
neutral · AI labelView post →📢 Justin Hale’s lawsuit against USA Rugby highlights deeper governance issues in U.S. rugby. With CRAA, NIRA, & NCR dividing the college game, the 2028 Olympics & future World Cups are a chance to align and unify for a stronger future. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3VnN35C
neutral · AI labelView post →another pixel art survival game with crafting, particularly lacking in polish.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Destroying is still enabled while dragging items around in your inventory. My chest got eaten up and the items inside exploded everywhere, some getting stuck in the walls. Hitting creatures in combat is annoying. Gameplay is boring and repetitive, having to go on random fetch quests across islands miles apart.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pixely survivals. Thankfully, it has missions and objectives to guide you through the vast amount of content that you could explore here. Build shelter, make weapons, fight monsters, don't dehydrate! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVbhrQVQE54
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In this video I take a look at Nira, a pixel art survival game. This one is a very simplistic, art wise, take on the survival genre. It's more arcade in it's feel than usual but it still has missions, crafting, resources, base building, mounts, co-op and enemies. When it hits night the enemies literally hoard to you so my advice is when you begin make sure you keep your boat handy. Jump in it and they follow you and drown, it's so funny. Watch the video to see what the game is like...…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been really enjoying playing Nira, so far, I know it's early days right now but I find the gameplay engaging and the items satisfying to obtain and use. It's very easy to get into; the way that the tools progress leads you nicely through the crafting tree, the combat is simple and rewarding (especially once you have gathered enough resources for projectile weapons), and I enjoy the foraging/farming aspect, it's nice to see crops that you have gathered, or traded for, grow. I cannot speak…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nira gets survival craft right. As the game is in Early Access, the first time I played the game I was having a rough go of things. But not even 2 days later, the developer has addressed almost all of the issues I've had with the game and improved the starting experience immensely. I'm excited to see where this game goes and if you want to be part of watching this game grow, you should definitely give it a purchase and hop on the discord to provide feedback or suggestions. The developer seems…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pleasing aesthetics and interesting game mechanics.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are two major disagreements I have with your analysis. The first is your firm break from Marxism and [materialism](https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Materialism) into [idealist](https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Idealism) analysis. Administrators in socialism perform a socially necessary form of mental and managerial labor in coordinating society. This does not make them a distinct [class](https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Social_class), just like managers are not a distinct class. Again, ownership…
neutral · AI labelView post →Got the chance to play the Nira Across Skies playtest, if your sonic-esque game has the step sound effect from Adventure 1 then you're doing something right
positive · AI labelView post →Amazing survival sandbox crafting, exploration, and mystery all in one. The Totem quests are a cool twist. Highly addictive!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nashita: Protag in a game like Stardew where she basically farms, garden and socialize with people. Styrngeim: Open world exploration/survival game in the wilderness spanning an entire continent. Nira: Survival horror 1/2
neutral · AI labelView post →Sam! I always look forward to your posts! Also, Jakotsu, Nira and I were talking about a game we think you might enjoy...Once Human!
neutral · AI labelView post →Game on! Show your indie comics support by hitting the link for Nira-X Dark Seas 2! Nira’s back! With art and story by Maus- please share and retweet where ever you can! Thanks so much for having fun with us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm not sure what this game is trying to be. It's a survival game with zombies and skeletons, but I can make a machine gun? Also, the animations are quite bad and make it hard to understand what's going on in the game. Like the animation for swinging a tool or weapon is just a wiggle and it's not obvious from the animation where the tool is actually supposed to be hitting
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game concept is cool, but it didn't catch me when I played it. It seems to just kind of throw you in, and even though there are basic guides, they don't seem to help with specific things that you need to figure out yourself and use a lot. I died pretty quickly a few times, and ended up restarting the game because I wasn't sure how to rebuild my axe and everything. The enemies are difficult to kill at first and kill you pretty quickly. I feel the game play runs quick but the forraging runs…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First Impressions Review: Nira is a an interesting survival game. It really reminds me of Forager and Don't Starve. I like the leveling aspects and the procedural generated islands are great. It's a very minimalist take on the genre that does most things okay. It can be a bit slow at times for no reason like applying level... 1 exp at a time through a hold the button gauge. But the fact that's it's a completely game out of Early Access and has some coop in it makes it a title to think about…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I see the hidden potential
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty nice game. Easy to use, but still a challenging game. Nice lighting, with the shadows and all. I'm interested in how the game will progress.
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