Noita

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 95%2020

The verdict

A brutally hard, deeply creative physics-sandbox roguelike with a wand-building system and endless secrets. Skip it if you dislike permadeath, opaque mechanics or wiki-dependence.

Great for

Patient experimenters who enjoy learning by dying, breaking systems and uncovering secrets

Main risk

Unfair-feeling instant deaths and no guidance make restarting from zero exhausting

What players love

Huge depth, secrets and lore

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“Know that the trailers and the store description cover maybe 5% of what the game actually is.”
Steam review · 372.2 h played ↗

“once you begin to explore and uncover the massive world you realise the incredible depth of lore content and puzzles this game has to offer.”
Steam review · 120.1 h played ↗

Deep wand building and spell system

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“The wand building goes deeper than any roguelike has any right to, and the game hates you in the most creative ways possible.”
Steam review · 15.4 h played ↗

“The wand building is a satisfying way to get more powerfull while still giving much agency to the player.”
Steam review · 86.8 h played ↗

Rewarding challenge and learning by dying

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“Cruel and uncompromising in a rewarding way.”
Steam review · 274.2 h played ↗

“This game teaches you resilience.”
Steam review · 269.3 h played ↗

Hilarious deaths and replayability

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“Amazing Game. Offers endless ways to end your runs mostly in hilarious and chaotic ways”
Steam review · 1025.7 h played ↗

Freedom to break the game and mods/co-op

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews

“you will never have more fun breaking it as it tries to break you”
Steam review · 360.3 h played ↗

“you also have the option to play coop with the mod Entangled Worlds”
Steam review · 137.2 h played ↗

Fully simulated pixel physics

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews

“it's amazing how each pixel is a material that can be destroyed or transmuted into something else.”
Steam review · 72.8 h played ↗

“This game is a technical marvel. The idea that every pixel in this game is simulated has given the developers the ability to make one of the most unique and extensible combat systems ever.”
Steam review · 160.1 h played ↗

What players complain about

Nothing explained; wiki required

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“There is absolutely no way that any human being could reasonably play this game in a fulfilling way without using a wiki.”
Steam review · 7.4 h played ↗

“Unbelievably poor instruction, only a few key press tips in the very beginning, then NOTHING AT ALL!”
Steam review · 2 h played ↗

Unfair one-shot deaths from off-screen or pixels

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“you will die unfairly about 999/1000 runs you can spend an hour on a run and an enemy will one-shot you from offscreen”
Steam review · 56.9 h played ↗

“Getting stuck on pixels and dying because of that is not fun, and it happens so much it just ruins the game for me.”
Steam review · 7.3 h played ↗

Too random and too hard

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“the entire game loop is just resetting hoping you get a usable wand before Hiisi Base.”
Steam review · 55.2 h played ↗

“I really think that this game is one of the few that is actually just too hard.”
Steam review · 34.2 h played ↗

Restarting from zero with no progression

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“dying and having to restart from ZERO 100 times is just not fun.”
Steam review · 20.4 h played ↗

“85% of my time was spend in the mines”
Steam review · 62.7 h played ↗

Bugs, crashes and lost saves

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews

“the game LOVES crashing whenever it's not the active window.”
Steam review · 66.2 h played ↗

“Lost my crown and everything I am not placing the damn suns again.”
Steam review · 161.9 h played ↗

Almost no healing options

Mentioned in ~1 in 25 negative reviews

“Virtually nonexistent healing options makes this game not fun at all.”
Steam review · 2.2 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10

ProcessorDual Core CPU, Intel i5 or better

Memory4 GB RAM

Graphics512MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support

Storage1600 MB available space

Recommended

OSWindows Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10

ProcessorThe more cores the better

Memory8 GB RAM

Graphics1024MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support

Storage2500 MB available space

OSWindows Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10

ProcessorDual Core CPU, Intel i5 or better

Memory4 GB RAM

Graphics512MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support

Storage1600 MB available space

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