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Nimbus

Nimbus is a unique combination of racing & puzzling. The player controls a craft with no means of directly propelling itself and needs to use whatever is scattered around the levels to acquire thrust and reach…

25 October 2010

Nimbus is an indie developed by Noumenon Games, released 25 October 2010 on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Nimbus is

Nimbus is an indie game developed by Noumenon Games and released in 2010. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Nimbus is a unique combination of racing & puzzling. The player controls a craft with no means of directly propelling itself and needs to use whatever is scattered around the levels to acquire thrust and reach the goal. Traverse a world map with several distinct islands in order to recover your lost love. Light on story, but heavy on gameplay Nimbus offers several hours of increasingly harder challenges.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Nimbus launched on 25 October 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Super Meat Boy and Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition.

Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Super Meat Boy, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition.

Official trailer

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When did Nimbus come out?
Nimbus was released on 25 October 2010 for Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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