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Nimbus cover art

Nimbus

Noumenon Games · 2010-10-25

Steam

IndieRacing

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 25, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 25, 2010 (Linux)

Nimbus is a unique combination of racing & puzzling. The player controls a craft with no means of directly propelling itself and needs to use whatever is scattered around the levels to acquire thrust and reach the goal. Traverse a world map with several distinct islands in order to recover your lost love.

Nimbus is an Indie, Racing game released in 2010, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (94% of 252 reviews).

0
playing now
94%
positive of 252 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 45% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (17 reviews).
  • · Top 22% of 50,697 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 10k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 252 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2022-10-25) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620102025Week of 2010-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2010-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2010-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2011-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2011-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2011-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2011-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2011-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2011-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2011-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2011-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2011-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2012-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2012-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2012-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2012-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2013-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 10:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.002015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-11-25 — best price $2.492016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-11-23 — best price $2.492017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-10-26 — best price $2.492017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-06-22 — best price $2.492018-10-29 — best price $2.492018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-06-26 — best price $2.492019-11-01 — best price $9.992019-12-19 — best price $2.492020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $2.492021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $2.492021-11-01 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $2.492022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $2.492022-12-22 — best price $2.492023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $2.492024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-07-02 — best price $2.492025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
28.1%
earned "Precision BBQ"
2.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,5865%18

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndiePuzzleRacingPhysicsColorfulDifficultPlatformerTime Attack

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.