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Nocturnals

A short, choose your own adventure game about two boys that find each other in a lonely, post-apocalyptic town.

Storyline

Follow the story of Ted as he navigates the abandoned town of Ruddleside, finding a solitary companion in Diego who agrees to help him continue his search for surviving communities.

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Very Positive

23 Steam reviews

Review History

Reviews

23 total

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Steam User 6940STEAMRecommended

nearly had a heart attack at the tunnel part very cool!!

Mar 19, 2026·1h·Verified

Steam User 6678STEAMRecommended

This game is so freaking good, the musics phenomenal, the gameplays great, the relationships great, and the fact the game is actually the creators love letter to his partner makes it sweeter. btw the creatures in this game are pretty unique

Mar 19, 2026·10h·Verified

Steam User 3396STEAMRecommended

relly good game i love it

Mar 17, 2026·35h·Verified

Steam User 6575STEAMRecommended

Genuinely a good game but I'm a bit sad the story is so short

Mar 16, 2026·4h·Verified

Steam User 6156STEAMRecommended

looking forward to the upcoming nocturnals game

Mar 14, 2026·2h·Verified

Steam User 8320STEAMRecommended

Its a nice game, and I would love to see a sequel. Will have to place this a few times to get all the endings. So so cute, I adore this game with my whole heart. Going to have my partner play it too. Only about an hour to complete first run. I was just thinking, that I hope they will make a sequel... They plan to release it this year!!! Nocturnals: Cacti Coast.

Mar 13, 2026·8h·Verified

Steam User 3794STEAMRecommended

Puede que sea muy corto (1 hora para obtener cada final), pero es entretenido y la historia atrapa :D

Mar 11, 2026·3h·Verified

Steam User 9625STEAMRecommended

Amazing game. Not very difficult but the story is super good.

Mar 8, 2026·2h·Verified

Steam User 7692STEAMNot recommended

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Mar 7, 2026·1h·Verified

Steam User 6864STEAMRecommended

This is a short good game, if you want something to make your hear beat a bit, or just haven't played a good scary game, this game is worth it. It is short, works, and has a good story, absolutely good for people who don't play horror games that much.

Mar 7, 2026·1h·1·Verified

Steam User 3961STEAMNot recommended

great game but have to give a negative review for essentaly a demo costing $10. With a sequel coming out, i dont like the idea of possibly paying $10 per episode

Mar 4, 2026·1h·1·Verified

Steam User 0699STEAMRecommended

ssooooo good … can’t wait for the second one.

Mar 3, 2026·1h·Verified

Steam User 6538STEAMRecommended

Amazing game, had so much fun

Mar 2, 2026·73h·Verified

Steam User 6347STEAMRecommended

This game is really worth recommending.

I wasn’t a fan of this genre before (for example Minecraft Story Mode) but this game completely changed my mind, it's like short movie, I love them, though I HATE some big and long-running TV series and movies. I especially liked having full control over Ted’s movements.

I really hope we get to see a second and maybe even a third chapter of this game in the future. However the game has its drawbacks. It was made by a small team of few people, not a big studio so it’s not a AAA project.

1 The optimization is poor and you need a decent PC to run it smoothly and even on my setup it lagged a bit at times.
2 There are some design issues that are hard to explain but you will notice them when playing.
3 The translations into other languages are poor which is common for some reason in this genre where understanding the story depends on language, it is really easy to find a Russian/Frenxh language native speaker (for example) who won't mind to make a text translation even for free.
4 The game is quite short as stated on the Steam page. It is short like that, I still clearly remember how to beat it.
5 The voice acting feels sketchy like it was recorded casually over voice messages in some WhatsApp, for example "Hey, dude, can you say ‘Damn Ted you’re dead!".

All in all the game was very interesting. I hope that buying it supports the development of the next chapters which seem to have promising differences according to the trailer X)

Mar 2, 2026·4h·Verified

Steam User 9403STEAMRecommended

Good game but WAYYYYYY too short to be even close to worth 8 dollars

Feb 28, 2026·1h·2·Verified

Steam User 6684STEAMRecommended

This game conflicts me a lot. Let me start this with, I did like the game, I saw this game on a YouTube short (The scene where Maggie tries to stab Ted as he's running away) and wanted to play it. I played this while in call with my friend, we did make some fun while playing it, I never found myself bored or anything, although this game IS less than 2 hours so idk if that would've been possible. I liked the setting A LOT, when I first went into it I thought it was gonna just be a zombie game (I love zombie games BTW), but I found something a little more unique in the way of the nocturnals. Plus the fact this appears to take place (from what I can tell according to Ted saying he was born and grew up in the zoo) over a decade after the apocalypse first started. That ontop of how the nocturnals are apprently dying out, it all seems like a great atmosphere. Which really introduces my first problem, the game never explores the background and the atmosphere. I would love to learn more about how this all started, how the government fell, if the government knew about the nocturnals before they came (Hinted at in Mr. Jefferys note). Ontop of everything like that. But the game doesn't really look at any of that, it just shows me all this cool stuff and adds nothing onto it. I don't blame the devs for this, it's a student project and it'll probably be added onto in the new game coming out this year. I also thought the voice acting was at times awkward. But not really even that, just the pausing between lines. Multiple times Diego would say something and Ted would just... Sit there before either popping out a response or giving me a choice in what I want to say. I'm not sure if this is intentional to make you feel the teenage awkwardness, or if this is just a quirk of the game. Adding onto that, this game multiple times had me rubberbanding, I'm not sure that's actually possible in a singleplayer, offline game, but 2-3 times I rubberbanded and I would snap back about 3 or 4 steps and my camera would snap back up, not sure why this happened, but it did. My mouse also went off the screen and onto my second monitor a few times (especially when I was using the hand crank at furniture valley), which made me switch to the simplified controls. Also, the resolution, I use a 1440p monitor, and the highest option was only 1152p? Not sure why, just again, something I noticed. It may seem like I'm just complaining, but I genuinely did love this game. The environment has some amazing potential, and the characters do seem interesting and with time these characters definitely could be wonderful. I loved what I saw and I will 100% pick up the second game when it comes out. I don't feel like you even need to look at reviews for these types of games (It's less than 10 dollars and it's not even 2 hours long to complete a single play through, you lose nothing buying this), but if you do and read this, buy it. It was a good game, great environment, great character, pretty unique artstyle (my friend described it as "corporate", which I do see, but I like since it's added onto with a decay/destroyed theme), and Linux native (Love that btw <3)

Feb 23, 2026·1h·3·Verified

Steam User 9018STEAMRecommended

Feb 22, 2026·1h·Verified

Steam User 1849STEAMNot recommended

This game didn't even last me an hour, made me dance with a dude, and gave me no challenge to solve a single puzzle. $8 for this is a rip off.

Feb 22, 2026·1h·6·Verified

Steam User 0997STEAMRecommended

quaint little story about the end of the world and getting homiesexual with the bro

Feb 21, 2026·1h·13·Verified

Steam User 0067STEAMNot recommended

Storry ist too short, everybody is gay, everyone has its own race, its all about feelings. This ♥♥♥♥ is way to woke down the throat.

Feb 20, 2026·2h·8·Verified

Steam User 3337STEAMRecommended

you were everything

Feb 20, 2026·3h·Verified

Steam User 7831STEAMRecommended

the yaoi ending was so peak i had to change my profile

Feb 19, 2026·2h·Verified

Steam User 3392STEAMRecommended

Amazing game. Not very difficult but the story is super good. Just wish the game was a bit longer, but that is NOT a complaint because this game has multiple endings. Am very much looking forward to Cacti Coast!

Feb 18, 2026·3h·4·Verified