Steam app 2330930 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 21:10 UTC
Nocturnal Quest is a Semi-Idle Adventure RPG with 100s of spells & effects, 6 classes, 12 specializations, and countless builds. Have your teams grind gear and progress through an infinity of levels!
715 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
9 months, January 2026 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 435 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 280 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Nocturnal Quest: An Idle RPG Adventure was released on 31 Mar, 2026.
| Language | Full audio |
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| English | ● |
| Greek | |
| Simplified Chinese | ● |
| Traditional Chinese | |
| Russian | ● |
| Portuguese - Brazil | ● |
A blank audio cell means full audio was not marked in the returned language list.
100 achievements in total.
50 developer announcements, Dec 2025 to Mar 2026 · times in UTC
ChangesBoss material drops (shadow fang, black giant scales, heart of chaos, and equivalents across all journeys) now scale linearly after floor 1000, reaching 5,000 at floor 2000 instead of the previous exponential growth to 1.1M.All…
Patch notesChangesParagon Levels are now available after reaching the cap of level 100.Heroes that reach level 100 now continue gaining XP toward Paragon levelsEach Paragon level grants +5% damage, +5% initiative, and +5% vitalityParagon level is…
Patch notesChangesNew Cursed Item: Inevitus, Staff of Doom — A new intelligence cursed weapon. Its unique effect, Inevitus, casts a permanent Shadow Beam on the enemy with the highest max health based on your first equipped Shadow Beam skill. The beam…
Patch notesHello everyone!Introducing the 7th class of Nocturnal Quest: The Shaman. The Shaman is a very powerful class with a crazy Lightning specialization that fries all enemies, and an essential Spirit specialization that makes every build more…
SolmyrChangesNew Cursed Item: Fotia, Molten Whip of Fire — A new intelligence cursed weapon. Its unique effect, Molten Whip, allows your burn damage ticks to critically strike.New Cursed Item: Flamecaller, Staff of the Sun — A new intelligence…
Patch notesChangesMonsters on floors below 15 are now 1 level lower (minimum level 1), easing the early game difficulty curve.Monsters no longer roll for higher rarities until level 6 (previously level 3), keeping early encounters more manageable for…
Patch notesChangesVarious performance improvements.Added the Spirit Shaman specialization.Added a new Spirit Shaman cursed item: Aetos, Spirit Staff of the Sky.Added 2 new gem combos for the Spirit Shaman.Added number abbreviations in various…
Patch notesChangesAdded a new class: Shaman. Only the Lightning spec is available. Spirit spec coming very soon.Added 2 new gem combos for Lightning Shaman.Added a new cursed item: Keravnos, Staff of Storms.It is now possible to click on the "Possible…
Patch notesChangesAdded a new item effect to help against the dreaded Fatigue!Added 19 new achievements:1. Gladiator: Beat floor 1000 in any journey as a Gladiator (Only one hero in team, a warrior)2. Headhunter: Discover all creatures in the…
Patch notesChangesNew item effect!
Patch notesChangesNew Shadowforge Item: Nurros, Staff of Darkness — A cursed INT staff that automatically casts your equipped Darken Mind, Dark Desire, and Soul of the Infinite at the start of each encounter. These effects no longer expire. Soul of…
Patch notesChangesAdded Shop Auto-buy upgrade in the Automagus, which displays auto-buy settings in the shop for runes, free item and other items based on rarity.
Patch notesChangesAdded the Bestiary, which tracks enemy kills and awards talent points for powerful town-level effects.Back-row enemies (Skeleton Warlock, Dark Druid, Frost Wraith, Fire Elemental, Acolyte, Gargoyle) now have a 5% chance to spawn as…
Patch notesChangesAdded new cursed item "Lunyx, Claw of the Moon" — a Lycan sword with the Moonlit Predator effect: when another allied Lycan attacks, you have a 10% chance to join them by using your next available equipped Black Claw.Reduced…
Patch notesHello everyone!Discord • TikTok • YouTubeThank you so much for all the feedback, bug reports and feature requests! I can't believe 3,000 people have played and (mostly) enjoyed the game. In the past 2 months, we have come a long way, with…
SolmyrChangesAdded Thanatos' Xyphos, a new cursed Warrior sword — its unique effect, Thanatos' Wrath, removes Execute's health threshold and applies a bleed for 200% STR, increased by 50% per empty skill slot.Increased Rune of Echoes max drop…
Patch notesChangesAdded a new cursed item for poison rogues: Dilitirion, Venom of DeathFixesVoid Explosion can now crit, as intended.Fixed Howling Terror tooltip.
Patch notesChangesAdded an Automagus upgrade to further increase inventory size by 1000.Added a new cursed item: Nykta, Dagger of the VoidFixesFixed an issue where enabling auto-ascend mid-run would wait for a win streak before ascending.Fixed an…
Patch notesChangesEmbermark cooldown has been reduced to 60 seconds.Bleeding, Burning and Poisoned will now keep ticking while receiving hits, instead of delaying ticks by 1 second every time.Gem level on each floor is now visible in tooltips in the…
Patch notesChangesImplemented a Turn Tracker in combat view to make it easier to figure out whose turn is coming up.You can now middle/ctrl click on inventory categories in the filters to exclude that category (useful for quickly hiding gems for…
Patch notesChangesAuto-gem-picker will now remembers the last used stat priority.Ctrl+Click or Middle click on the "Infuse" button will try to auto-infuse as much as possible, spending all many gems as it takes instantly! (Of course, it ignores…
Patch notesChangesAdded new item effect: Toxic Miasma (Poison Rogue)Implemented a new set of key binding in item view that cycle through the same slot accross team members (A/D keys) or equipment slots of current hero (Q/E keys).Added "Middle Click to…
Patch notesChangesFloor 1 in Iron Mines can no longer roll monster of higher rarity than common.Added a gameplay option that shows a "Collect all chests" button in the journeys map window.
Patch notesChangesAdded Jeweler leveling system.Increased the amount of dust recovered from salvaging gems by ~5x.Removed runes from gem item window since they cannot be applied on gems.Added the ability to clone gems in exchange for a high amount of…
Patch notesChangesAdded Alchemist leveling system which makes it even easier to automate potion brewing!Item level is now visible on item icon.Added the ability to remove an effect from an item.Added the ability to buy 100 seeds with middle…
Patch notesChangesReverted enemy HP boost on higher levels as it was way too big and many players got stuck. It will instead be increased by very small increments over 30 days.Lethal Coating will not be cast again until it is expired.FixesFixed a bug…
Patch notesChangesRe-worked Alchemist UI.FixesFixed a bug where auto-defeat would leave all heroes with 0 health without killing them.
Patch notesChangesEnemy health has been slightly increased. Please make sure you use the "Infuse" button on item windows to make your items up to x3 stronger (+20) and use the new gem combos and you will be back on track in no time!Added the option to…
Patch notesChangesGem combos are now related to a class and are grouped by class in the compendium for easier reading.Gem combos of the items's hero's class in the auto-gem-picker will be hoisted to the top.Menu icons in the top right are now slightly…
Patch notesChangesAdded Portuguese (Brazil) translations.Added Russian translations.Items in the shop can now also be locked with RMB, in addition to "L" key.FixesFixed an issue where blacksmith recipe tooltips did not respect material cost…
Patch notesChangesAdded new Blacksmith leveling system and talents.Reduced the amount of crafting materials required for crafting by roughly 70%.Added a Gameplay option to disable "auto-lock on item equip".Added an option to lock a shop item so it…
Patch notesChangesAdded one more options for +500 intentory slots in the Automagus for 1M gold.It is now possible to unlock a locked stat by clicking on the lock icon.Added an Auto-Pick feature for item gems to make it easier to prioritize stats and…
Patch notesChangesAdded a new "Transfer" option that helps move equipped items and talents to a new hero of the same class.Added more Chinese translations.FixesTavern level 21 will properly appear as Max and will stop requirring level 21 gems (which…
Patch notesHello World!Discord • TikTok • YouTubeNocturnal Quest has been a passion project, built with a lot of love in 4 short weeks. I put it up on Steam for free, as it is my very first attempt at making a game and I was hoping to see at least one…
SolmyrChangesAdded new audio for quest dialogs with Nyra.Added new audio translations for dialogs with Nyra for Chinese and Greek.FixesFixed a bug with "Damage done" bars.
Patch notesChangesCrafted warrior items now have crit bonus as guaranteed greater modifier instead of crit chance.FixesFixed an issue where initiative was accidentally capped at 1000.
Patch notesChangesNew gem combo!New gem combo!FixesFixed an issue where physical damage bonus stat could not be rolled on items and was not listed on hero stats window.Fixed a lag issue when importing a save.
Patch notesChangesShared Desire gem combo has been changed to need 5 gems for consistency. Existing items will still have the effect until you change it, so no builds have been broken.Added a Cosmetic-Only DLC that changes the color of the Hourglass…
Patch notesBefore we get into changes, here are some tips you might have missed:You can rename your heroes by hovering over their name in the hero window (just for fun :))You can Infuse items by clicking "Infuse" in the item window, which sacrifices…
Patch notesChangesAdding an item effect now costs more, starting from 5 runes of forging for common lv.1 items all the way up to 500 runes of forging for lv.20 legendary items.New gem combo!New gem combo! New gem combo!FixesFixed a visual issue with…
Patch notesFeaturesAdded "Turns taken" to the statistics panel when hovering over a unit card during combat which shows how many turns the unit has taken during the current encounter.FixesFatigue now gets removed on encounter end, as intended, rather…
Patch notesFeaturesNew Gem Combo: Divine Vigilance (🟧🟥🟧🟧🟧): When an ally drops below 50% health, automatically casts the first available heal spell.New Gem Combo: Radiant Dawn (🟥🟥🟧🟧🟧): At each encounter start, cast Inner Light on all allies. Requires…
Patch notesFeaturesAdded the ability to "Buy all" runes in the shop with Ctrl+Click.Added more translations and a translated cinematic.
Patch notesFeaturesAuto-journey and Auto-floor-advance toggles can now be changed even if a team is already raiding a map.Introduced an Automagus upgrade that increases inventory size by 400. More features will come to either increase size further or…
Patch notesFeaturesAdded "missing" blacksmith recipesNameSlotModifiersGuardian RingRingVitality + ArmorGuardian NecklaceNecklaceVitality + ArmorGuardian TrinketTrinketVitality + ArmorWarrior RingRingStrength + Crit ChanceWarrior…
Patch notesFeaturesMinor QoL improvements:Double click to purchase tavern heroesClick outside window to close (Learn Skill window)Purchase skill by pressing enter (Learn Skill window)FixesAddressed a frequent lag spike caused by auto-saving
Patch notesFeaturesNew class: LycanA new "Gem preservation rules" filter feature has been added to the Jeweler FixesMoved resistances/vulnerabilities of each map inside the panel after selecting a map
Patch notesHello World! Thank you to everyone who has been playing and providing feedback during Early Access! Your help is invaluable and most of your feedback is being implemented! 💝FeaturesNew class: RogueNew class: WarlockCycle through heroes of a…
Patch notesHello World! The game is finally in a playable state after about a month in development. Thank you all for participating in Early Access and taking the time to submit feedback!Roadmap3 more classesAt least 6 more builds"Cursed" itemsDozens…
SolmyrFeatures- Recipes in the Blacksmith are now grouped by level- Players can now select a hero in combat and use their skills outside their turn- FPS/debug overlay can be toggled with Ctrl+D- Added achievements
Patch notesEverything Steam lists as add-on content for this game, newest first. Prices are left out on purpose: the store answers this page in one currency and it is not the reader's.
| Name | Platforms | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Nocturnal Quest: Heroic Supporter Pack (Cosmetic Only) | WindowsmacOS | 30 Jan 2026 |
| Nocturnal Quest: Supporter Pack | Windows | 15 Jan 2026 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch | NocturnalQuest.exe | windows | ||
| Play (Apple Silicon) | arm64/NocturnalQuest.app/Contents/MacOS/NocturnalQuest | macos | ||
| Play (Intel) | x64/NocturnalQuest.app/Contents/MacOS/NocturnalQuest | macos |
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