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.
Does this feel indie?
Vote based on whether this game feels indie to you. You can change your vote at any time. Results earn an IGF score after 10 accepted votes.| ContextThe evidence factors used to assess whether this game belongs on IndieGame.Fan. | Status | Notes Latest Contributor: IGF TeamEdit notes |
|---|---|---|
Updated: Jul 10, 2026Developer scaleThe operating scale of the game's developer. | ||
Updated: Jul 10, 2026Publisher scaleThe operating scale of the game's publisher. | ||
Updated: Jul 10, 2026Publisher statusHow the game's publishing relationship is classified. | ||
Updated: Jul 10, 2026Release statusWhether and how the game has been released. |
Media
13 itemsAbout the 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!
