One city in the clouds, one desert kingdom, a dozen ways to live
Drop from Nimbora, a city above the clouds, into Murfania, a fading desert kingdom. Farm, fish, run factories, climb a tower with a deck of cards, sneak through temple ruins for relics, and raise a daughter. Win the contest for the throne alongside six companions and bring the kingdom back to life.
Home and companions
- Play as Lin Zhiqiu or Zhou Yanzhi and see the same story from two sides, with six very different companions
- Come home to Nimbora and invite a companion to the window seat: talk, give gifts, take photos, pat their head or shoulder and see how they react, while the city outside follows real-world time from dawn to night
Raise a daughter
Adopt Lia, the old cobbler's granddaughter, and raise her from 8 to 18. Plan her studies, jobs and outings; ten years later she reaches one of 62 endings
Tower of Shadows
One hand of Guandan per floor; win and climb. After the cards are played, seven spells clash. A boss every twenty floors, floor 120 to clear, then an endless stretch for your high score.
The Temple of a Thousand Pillars
Ten floors of ruins beneath the capital, rebuilt every run from floor 3 down. Slip past the guardians, search for relics, and reach an extraction point before it's too late. Three difficulties, twelve kinds of monsters; every run starts from nothing, and only what you carry out is yours.
Life in the desert
- Farm: 66 crops that grow in real time, even while the game is closed
- Fishing: five spots and 50 fish; rare ones take several rounds of give and take
- Apothecary and forge: brew remedies, hammer out your own weapons, then reroll and refine them
- Treasure hunting: follow the map, dig up artifacts, piece fragments together, tell real from fake, and complete a collection of 50
- Factories: lay out lines and conveyor belts across 12 factories and 58 recipes, turning raw materials into high-tech parts
- Kitchen Chaos: run a restaurant in online co-op for 1 to 4 players over 28 days, picking a card each night that changes tomorrow's shop
- Hammam: seat guests across the cold, warm and hot halls, feed the fire, calm tempers, and hear the whole city's secrets in the steam
Arena, music hall and Five Elements
Face 36 arena opponents in five tiers: block, parry and punish. Step on arrows with a dance mat or sing the theme song into a microphone. Match gems by the cycle of the five elements.
Story
A head of trading and a quantum financier are invited, late one night, to set their "perfect" lives aside. The keeper of Nimbora tells them humanity is losing its capacity to feel, and only the Five Elements crystals scattered across other dimensions can bring it back. The first dimension is Murfania, where an aging king with no heir has promised the throne to whoever can save the kingdom.
Languages
Interface and subtitles in English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, French, Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil), Arabic, Turkish and Persian. Voice-over in English and Simplified Chinese.
About the developer
Nimbora is made by a solo developer. Two years in, I nearly set it aside. AI tools helped me find the strength to keep going. How AI was used for music, some art and text is described in this page's AI disclosure. Thank you for visiting Nimbora.
