





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
- 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!
We have seen that the demo might have been a bit easy for some players, but we also see many people who can barely finish the demo. This led us to wonder how we could give players with potentially previous Nurikabe experience a taste of harder and bigger levels, without being too discouraging for newcomers.
Our current solution is a bit of an odd one, but you can access four extra hard levels by clicking the "User Levels" button 5 times in a row!
Keep in mind that these levels are from varying points of the game, and the difficulty ramps up quite fast compared to the full game, where you can improve at your own pace.
Minimum Setup
- OS: Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 / Steam Deck
- Processor: 1 GHz Dual CoreMemory: 2 GB RAM
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 520
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Recommended Setup
- OS: Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 / Steam Deck
- Processor: 2.5 GHz Dual CoreMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1050 / AMD RX 560
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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