NIA for Pc & Linux - Free Download (2026)

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How to Install NIA on Windows Pc

Click on the NIA download button below.
Choose "Install" to install the game on the windows steam client.
Follow the on-screen prompts
Let it download the Full Version.
Once a game is downloaded, use the Windows Steam Client to play the game.

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Guide: Installing NIA on Linux with Steam Proton

This guide describes how to use Steam Proton to play and run Windows games on your Linux computer. Some games may not work or may break because Steam Proton is still at a very early stage.

1. Activating Steam Proton for Linux:
Proton is integrated into the Steam Client with "Steam Play." To activate proton, go into your steam client and click on Steam in the upper right corner. Then click on settings to open a new window. From here, click on the Steam Play button at the bottom of the panel. Click "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles."

Alternatively: Go to Steam > Settings > Steam Play and turn on the "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles" option.

Valve has tested and fixed some Steam titles and you will now be able to play most of them. However, if you want to go further and play titles that even Valve hasn't tested, toggle the "Enable Steam Play for all titles" option.

2. Choose a version
You should use the Steam Proton version recommended by Steam: 3.7-8. This is the most stable version of Steam Proton at the moment.

3. Restart your Steam
After you have successfully activated Steam Proton, click "OK" and Steam will ask you to restart it for the changes to take effect. Restart it. Your computer will now play all of steam's whitelisted games seamlessly.

4. Launch Stardew Valley on Linux:
Before you can use Steam Proton, you must first download the Stardew Valley Windows game from Steam. When you download Stardew Valley for the first time, you will notice that the download size is slightly larger than the size of the game.
This happens because Steam will download your chosen Steam Proton version with this game as well. After the download is complete, simply click the "Play" button.

System Requirements

Windows Pc Requirements

Minimum:

OS: WIN7
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 compliant video card
Storage: 1 GB available space

Recommended:

OS: WIN10
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux Requirements

No minimum requirements!!
No maximum requirements!!

Mac Requirements

No minimum requirements!!
No maximum requirements!!

What is NIA? Features and Description

Drill, smash, leap and slide through this 2d puzzle platformer mashing retro graphics & icepunk aesthetics. Explore dozens of hand crafted worlds in well over 100 different levels.

A young icer-nomad must drill, battle, and puzzle her way towards the discovery of a lifetime - the true cause of The Silver Storm and the last warm day on Earth - to save her family from the growing cold.

A young icer-nomad has just been given her first ice drill and joined her place in the community as an icercadet. Everything is going just as it should and everyone is doing their part - except that hasn’t stopped the frost from growing through the farmbeds and the lights from crackle-popping in the frigid night. Every once in a while, spectral glimpses of the cities of old can be admired through the permafrost asbut the elders only mutter ”the past is the past’. The Silver Storm is now nothing but a story told to keep cadets under their electric blankets at night.

With fantasies of canned ham and the magical foods of The Before time drifting through the new cadet’s mind, a glimpse of a factory lost deep in the ice beneath her makeshift bed is all she needs to make her decision - she’s going down. As she drills, a crack forms, a large crack that swallows her up and slides her into the depths of the ice below.

Lost in the Underice, she must now find her family the food they need while navigating the dangers lurking below her world. If that means she has to solve the mystery of The Silver Storm and end the global ice age, then so be it. People have to eat.