September 10, 2026 | Glass City Games is excited to announce Nights of Nil, a top-down action-strategy adventure coming to Steam. The King has ordered the reclamation of Nil, a forgotten archipelago seized by a necromancer years ago, and it’s up to you to answer the call.
A new announcement trailer has been revealed, and a free playable demo is available now on Steam.
Wishlist and Play the Demo on Steam
Fans of Core Keeper, Kingdom Two Crowns, or Age of Mythology will find a familiar blend of combat, colony management, and survival mechanics. Switch between any villager, build settlements, survive escalating night raids, and uncover the secrets of the ancient Nexuses to break the necromancer’s hold.
About the Game
Take Direct Control
Nights of Nil combines action gameplay with settlement management. Switch between any villager in your settlement and take direct control of their abilities:
- Gather wood, stone, food, and other resources
- Fight goblins, slimes, barbarians, raiders, and undead monstrosities
- Build homes, farms, barracks, outposts, and defenses
- Explore ruins, discover hidden locations, and complete objectives
- Assign villagers to jobs, then leave them to work autonomously
- Every survivor is part of the settlement, but any one of them can become your character at a moment’s notice
Reclaim Each Island
Every island follows a focused progression from survival to liberation.
Find the island’s remaining inhabitant and complete their quest chain to earn their trust. Their knowledge will deliver the key to activate the Nexus, the ancient structure the necromancer has corrupted to control the island. Then prepare your settlement, recruit your forces, and face the necromancer himself.
When the necromancer is defeated, he retreats to the next island, leaving the land behind him reclaimed. The survivors you meet may join your traveling roster, bringing new abilities and stories to the campaign.
Survive the Nights
The nights are the pressure that drives your campaign forward.
Your well is the heart of every settlement, it marks your building boundary and it’s where you recruit new villagers.
As darkness falls, monsters emerge from the wilds and raid your settlement, targeting your well and threatening everything you have built. The longer you remain on an island, the stronger these attacks become.
Build defenses, recruit soldiers, expand your settlement’s influence, and decide when you are ready to activate the Nexus and face its challenge. Waiting can give you time to prepare, but it also gives the necromancer’s forces time to grow stronger.
Build a Civilization
Resources, recruits, and knowledge carry across your entire journey through Nil.
- Recruit workers, governors, warriors, rangers, knights, and unique characters
- Build outposts to expand your settlement’s territory and improve access to resources
- Protect your governors, who are essential to growing your population
- Bring your best villagers with you to help reclaim future islands
Every island adds to the strength of your civilization, but every loss makes the next one harder.
Drive Back the Necromancer
He is not a series of disconnected bosses. He is the same enemy throughout the entire campaign.
He appears at each Nexus with new abominations and a growing desperation to hold onto Nil. Defeat his minions and he will retreat, taunting you, warning you, and waiting on the next island.
Pursue him across the archipelago and dismantle his staging ground one Nexus at a time.
Key Features
- A blend of action combat and settlement management
- Switch freely between any villager
- Reclaim islands through quests, exploration, construction, and boss encounters
- Survive increasingly dangerous nightly raids
- Recruit and manage a growing roster of workers, soldiers, governors, and special characters
- Build settlements whose influence expands through wells and outposts
- Carry resources and surviving villagers across the campaign
- Uncover the stories of Nil’s island communities
- Face the same evolving necromancer throughout the entire game
- Explore varied islands, biomes, enemy factions, resources, and locations
About Glass City Games
Glass City Games is an independent studio forging atmospheric game experiences. We blend captivating art, deep worldbuilding, and innovative gameplay to build digital playgrounds.
