THE CRUNCH
Nivalis Nights is shaping up as a farm-life sim with a cyberpunk twist, if Eurogamer's early hands-on is anything to go by. The writer's first day in the neon-soaked city involves a district lockdown, a serial killer, and a government-mandated AI assistant, all before any serious farming gets done. Five hours in, they had grown exactly one onion.
Eurogamer's early impressions sketch a game of contrasts: opening the windows on day one reveals a lockdown and a serial killer on the loose, announced by the player's government-mandated AI automata. Within five hours, the writer reports becoming entangled in a child trafficking plot, befriending separatists on an oil rig, and falling into a romance with a CorpSec agent trying to shut down their noodle bar.
The strangest detail may be a woman who writes new childhoods for condemned criminals, implanting them in the city's hope of reforming them. Amid all this, the writer notes, they had managed to grow precisely one onion.