Nivalis Nights Is It Free? No, and Here Is Every Price, Discount and DLC Cost

No. Nivalis Nights costs $24.99: no free-to-play version, no demo, no Early Access, and Steam was the only place it sold on 30 September 2026. That day the store ran the 10% launch discount at $22.49, with one deadline printed on the page: INTRODUCTORY OFFER! Offer ends October 13.

Every figure below was captured between 14:45 and 14:50 UTC on 30 September 2026. Steam prices move with region and sales, so read each number as a snapshot.

Is Nivalis Nights Free to Play?

It is not, and the app record says so plainly. Steam appid 1488490 returns is_free: false next to a price block of $24.99 cut to $22.49 at 10% off, with no cheaper second entry point.

The raw store page leaves no trace of a free release either: demo, early access, prologue and trial each return zero hits, and there is no demo section on the page at all. The lone Free To Play string in the source sits inside a JavaScript template, not in this game's price block, which reads -10% $24.99 $22.49.

Official source: Steam store page — Nivalis Nights

What Nivalis Nights Costs Right Now

There is exactly one purchase option, the base game. The app record lists a single package (524630) in a single group titled Buy Nivalis Nights — no deluxe edition, no season pass, no expansion pass.

The developer set those base prices in the 24 September 2026 announcement — Nivalis Nights will launch at $24.99 | €24.99 | £21.99, plus a special 10% launch discount. We verified the dollar and euro figures live; £21.99 comes from that announcement.

Official source: Steam app record for Nivalis Nights (appid 1488490)

When the 10% Launch Discount Ends

The purchase box contains a single deadline, printed verbatim:

INTRODUCTORY OFFER! Offer ends October 13

Two caveats. The string carries no year and the page ships no countdown timestamp, so the year comes from context: the offer opened with the 29 September 2026 launch, making the deadline 13 October 2026. The 10% matches the developer's 24 September announcement.

Official source: Steam news feed — the 24 September 2026 price announcement

What comes afterwards is unpublished: the publisher page lists no future pricing, and the news feed held no pricing announcement on 30 September.

Is There a Demo or Free Trial?

No demo exists, so try-before-you-buy is closed. What Steam offers instead is a refund window wide enough to serve as a trial.

Valve's policy: the refund offer for games on the Steam store applies within two weeks of purchase and with less than two hours of playtime. DLC has its own rule — refundable within fourteen days of purchase, and only if the DLC has not been consumed, modified or transferred. Bundles are refundable in full so long as none of the items in the bundle have been transferred, and if the combined usage time for all items in the bundle is less than two hours.

Official source: Steam Refunds policy

Is Nivalis Nights in Early Access?

No. It launched as a full game on 29 September 2026 at 3PM UTC, and the app record returns release_date: {"coming_soon": false, "date": "Sep 29, 2026"} with no Early Access flag and no early access string in the store page. The launch post reads as a release, not a test phase.

The finished feature list is what you are buying, the 120 Steam achievements are live, and the developer has committed publicly to supporting the game after release. No roadmap, version schedule or patch notes existed at the time of writing.

The Soundtrack DLC: $9.99 for 54 Tracks

Its only DLC is the Nivalis Nights Soundtrack (appid 5259980), type music, priced $9.99 and reduced to $8.99 under the same discount. It is a standalone purchase, not a pre-order bonus, and nothing in the game requires it.

Its own description gives more detail than the base page does: 54 tracks with a total runtime of 3 hours and 44 minutes, delivered in both high-quality MP3 and premium, lossless FLAC formats with Steam Media Player support. Whether $8.99 is worth 54 tracks is a taste call, but the count and runtime are confirmed rather than estimated.

Bundles With Cloudpunk

Two bundles are offered, and both stack the launch discount with a further bundle cut on top. Each adds Cloudpunk (appid 746850, listed at $19.99 before its current −65% cut) to the Nivalis Nights package.

The page shows two percentages per bundle, easy to mix up. Each bundle block carries a -10% base line — the launch discount already applied to the items inside — and beside it the bundle's own cut, rendered 34% off. $40.48 normally, discounted to $26.53 and 30% off. $49.47 normally, discounted to $34.62. The item rows underneath show the same launch discount: -10% $24.99 $22.49 for the base game, -10% $9.99 $8.99 for the soundtrack, and -65% $19.99 $6.99 for Cloudpunk.

Buying the same items separately at those displayed prices would come to $29.48, or $38.47 with the soundtrack added. The bundles save roughly $2.95 and $3.85 — worth taking, but smaller than the 34% headline implies.

Should You Buy on Launch or Wait?

The discount ends 13 October, so price alone argues for buying now. Against that, the store page carried Mostly Positive (1,355) - 73% at capture, and frame-rate complaints dominated first-day discussion: if your GPU is the bottleneck, waiting for a patch beats spending $22.49. The performance problems page covers what the developer has said, the review score page tracks the verdict, and the system requirements set a minimum tier of 1080p 30 FPS on a 6 GB card. After buying, the first-hour guide is the fastest way in.

Where Else You Can Buy It

Steam is the only storefront with the game. The publisher's page lists release dates as Steam: September 29, 2026 and Epic Games: TBA, so there is no cheaper Epic version to wait for and no console version to price against. One free arrangement does exist: Steam tags the game Family Sharing, so it can be shared with another account on the same machine. Until Epic lands, the platform status page tracks what is coming, and handheld buyers should read the Steam Deck page first.

FAQ

Is Nivalis Nights free to play? No. The app record returns is_free: false and prices the game at $24.99, $22.49 during the launch offer. No free edition, no free weekend, no free-to-play label.

Is there a demo? No. demo, prologue and trial do not appear in the store page at all. Steam's two-week, two-hour refund window is the only way in.

Is it Early Access? No. It released on 29 September 2026 with coming_soon: false and no Early Access flag. Post-launch support is promised; no patch schedule is published.

How much is it? $24.99 full price, $22.49 with the launch discount, €24.99 / €22.49 in the euro store — captured 30 September 2026.

When does the discount end? The purchase box reads INTRODUCTORY OFFER! Offer ends October 13, so 13 October 2026, with nothing announced to replace it.

Can I get a refund? Yes: two weeks from purchase and under two hours of playtime for the game. The soundtrack has its own fourteen-day rule, and a bundle is fully refundable while nothing in it is transferred and combined usage stays under two hours.

Do I need the soundtrack to play? No. It is a standalone 54-track music pack in MP3 and FLAC.

What next after buying? Read what the game is if you have not decided — first person only, no character creation and no multiplayer are all confirmed.