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Noita

Nolla Games

Steam artwork — Noita

Falling-sand action roguelike. 88,421 reviews at 95.1%, 18.99 EUR, no demo. Knowledge persists; the save usually does not.

VERDICT

The physics engine is the trailer, accidentally

88,421
reviews · 95.1% · 17 Aug 2026
18.99 EUR
listed price
roguelike
principal structure

Noita is hard to pitch in six seconds and easy to clip when a wand deletes the player. The simulation is the content. Most action roguelikes fake debris; this one is debris.

There is no listed demo in the store reading. Coverage still happened because failure is spectacle. That is no plan you can put in a media calendar — it is a property of the systems.

Shypiard files it next to Balatro as a true run (knowledge, no hamlet) and next to Dead Cells as a 2D action cousin that does not keep the map.

If your trailer cannot show a law of the world going wrong, you do not have Noita's free clip engine. You have a shooter.

Player graph

Same Steam entity, different intent. The teardown is launch intelligence. The game page is what to play.