Nivalis Nights Achievements Guide
Nivalis Nights has 120 achievements covering almost every part of life in the city, from running successful restaurants to fishing, farming, apartment hunting, collectibles, exploration, and side quests. Instead of listing them in Steam's unlock-percentage order, I've grouped every achievement by what you're actually doing so it's much easier to track what you still need.
Several achievement groups also build naturally into each other. Finding your first piece of graffiti eventually leads toward finding them all, serving 100 customers comes before 500, and the farming and restaurant-discovery achievements each have their own escalating milestones. You can make progress toward several achievements at once without treating all 120 as separate objectives.
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Achievement Overview
Restaurant & Business Achievements
Location Achievements
Apartment Achievements
Collectible Achievements
Fishing Achievements
Farming Achievements
Restaurant Discovery Achievements
Story & Side Quest Achievements
There Are 120 Achievements in Nivalis Nights
Steam currently lists 120 achievements for Nivalis Nights. They range from objectives you'll complete naturally, such as serving your first customer and visiting major districts, to much larger completion goals like catching individual fish species, finding every graffiti location, growing every available crop type, and eating at 50 different locations.
I wouldn't worry about finishing each category the moment it becomes available. A lot of these objectives are cumulative, so normal exploration and business management will continue adding progress in the background.
Big Achievement Chains to Track
• Customers: Serve 100, then 500
• Venues: Operate 2, then 5
• Graffiti: Find 1, 5, 10, then all graffiti
• Menu Cards: Find 1, 10, then all cards
• Farming: Harvest 1 crop, 5 unique crops, 10 types, 20 crops, then all available types
• Dining: Eat at 5, 10, 20, 30, then 50 locations
• Decorating: Stage 1 apartment, then 5
The current Steam achievement list does not establish whether every achievement is missable, story-required, or available permanently after its related activity unlocks, so I wouldn't label any individual achievement missable without confirming it separately.
Restaurant and Business Achievements
The main restaurant achievement group follows your venues from the first customer through larger revenue, review, and expansion goals.
Restaurant & Business Achievements
• First customer — Serve your first customer
• First 4* Review — Get your first 4-star review
• Offer Drinks — Offer drinks on the menu in one of your venues
• First 5* Review — Get your first 5-star review
• Serve 100 Customers — Serve 100 customers across all venues
• Handle a Complaint — Handle a complaint from one of your customers
• Offer a Dessert — Put a dessert on your restaurant's menu
• 500 Daily Revenue — Reach 500 Lims in daily revenue across your venues
• Pictures on the wall! — Put a picture on the wall in one of your venues
• 1000 Revenue — Earn 1,000 Lims in total revenue
• Umbrella Corp — Place an umbrella in one of your venues to protect more customers from rain
• 4* Average Reviews — Reach an average 4-star rating in one venue with at least 100 reviews
• Serve 500 Customers — Serve 500 customers across all venues
• Own 2 Venues — Begin operating two venues after gaining the required permit
• Own 5 Venues — Begin operating five venues
• Debt Free — Make Ramen Noir debt-free
• Paid Back a Loan — Repay a loan shark with interest
There is a lot of overlap here. Serving customers pushes the 100- and 500-customer milestones while also producing revenue and reviews, so those are better treated as long-term restaurant milestones rather than isolated grinds.
The 4* Average Reviews achievement is more specific than the early review achievements. It requires at least 100 reviews at a single venue before the average rating qualifies.
All Nivalis Nights Location Achievements
Eighteen achievements simply require reaching named areas of Nivalis. These make up one of the cleanest exploration checklists in the game.
Visit These Locations
• Lowtown — Visit Lowtown
• Meridian Market — Visit Meridian Market
• Docks — Visit the Docks
• Metro Hub — Visit Metro Hub
• Eastern Residential — Visit Eastern Residential
• The Stacks — Visit the Stacks
• Central Canyon — Visit Central Canyon
• Industrial District — Visit Industrial District
• Sewers — Visit the Sewers
• Oil Rig — Visit Oil Rig
• Seaside Boardwalk — Visit Seaside Boardwalk
• Mountain Town — Visit Mountain Town
• Hive Mall — Visit Hive Mall
• Helix Monumental — Visit Helix Monumental
• Space Port — Visit the Space Port
• Skyhigh Gardens — Visit Skyhigh Gardens
• Spire — Visit the Spire
• Calypso Island — Visit Calypso Island
Several of these locations also appear elsewhere in the achievement list through postcards, apartments, or quests, so exploring an area thoroughly can contribute to more than just its visit achievement.
All Apartment Discovery Achievements
There are 11 achievements specifically tied to discovering named apartments, suites, or villas around Nivalis.
Apartment Achievements
• Meridian Rim, Level 42, Unit 3 — Discover the apartment
• Low-Tide Residences, Unit 7b — Discover the apartment
• Nexus Tier, Unit 2351 — Discover the apartment
• Zenith Spire, Suite 902-A — Discover the apartment
• 808 Harbor Overlook — Discover the apartment
• Seaboard Residences, App. 15 — Discover the apartment
• Mahogany Spire, Unit 89c — Discover the apartment
• Sky-Lot 49, Apex Tier — Discover the apartment
• Stacks Unit 1804-C — Discover the apartment
• Calypso Island Water Villa — Discover the Water Villa
• Calypso Island Beach Villa — Discover the Beach Villa
The Steam achievement descriptions only identify the properties you need to discover. They do not provide the exact route, unlock requirement, price, or prerequisite for each property, so those details are best handled separately once confirmed.
Graffiti, Menu Card, and Postcard Achievements
Nivalis Nights has three major collectible groups represented in the achievement list: graffiti, old menu cards, and postcards.
Graffiti has four escalating achievements, so every piece you find contributes toward the later milestones.
Graffiti Achievements
• Found a Graffiti — Find one graffiti
• 5 Graffiti Found — Find 5 graffiti
• 10 Graffiti Found — Find 10 graffiti
• Graffiti Admirer — Find all graffiti
Collectable Menu Cards follow the same basic pattern, although Steam currently only exposes milestone achievements at one card, 10 cards, and the complete collection.
Collectable Menu Achievements
• Collectable Menu Found — Find an old collectable menu card
• Menu Collector — Find 10 collectable menu cards
• Historian — Find all collectable menu cards
Postcards are handled individually instead of through a numerical milestone chain.
Postcard Achievements
• Skyhigh Gardens Postcard
• Metro Hub Postcard
• Meridian Market Postcard
• Docks Postcard
• Calypso Island Postcard
• Central Canyon Postcard
• Helix Postcard — Collect a postcard of Helix Monumental
• Outer Space Postcard
• Space Port Postcard
• Spire Postcard
Each simply requires collecting the postcard associated with that destination. The achievement list does not give the exact pickup positions.
All Fish Achievements in Nivalis Nights
Fishing accounts for 24 separate achievements. Unlike the farming chains, these are individual species achievements: catch the named fish and you unlock its corresponding achievement.
Fish Checklist
• Burbot
• Pike
• Stickleback
• Whitefish
• Volga Zander
• Taimen
• Rudd
• Crucian
• Ide
• Carp
• Lake Trout
• Bream
• Brook Trout
• Tench
• Dace
• Grayling
• Perch
• Roach
• Ruffe
• Sabrefish
• Zope
• Zander
• Rainbow Trout
• Salmon
Steam's achievement descriptions only state “Find and catch” each species. They don't identify fishing locations, weather, bait, time requirements, or other conditions for the individual fish, so I wouldn't add those requirements without verifying them separately.
Farming Achievements Build Toward Growing Everything
The main farming achievement chain starts with your first successful harvest and gradually expands toward cultivating every available crop type.
Farming Achievements
• First Harvest — Plant and harvest something in the greenhouse
• Harvester — Plant, grow, and harvest 5 unique crops
• Farmer — Successfully harvest 10 different types of crops
• Serial Farmer — Grow 20 different crops from seed to harvest
• Farming Specialist — Cultivate a diverse garden using all available crop types
Because these requirements scale upward, I'd treat Farming Specialist as the final target and let the smaller achievements unlock naturally while expanding the greenhouse.
Two additional achievements also involve growing or planting specific things but are tied to their own objectives rather than the main crop-count chain.
Other Farming Achievements
• Project Grapevine — Spread seeds on the Oil Rig
• Ma Gomba's Gift — Grow poisonous mushrooms for Ma Gomba
Eat at 50 Different Locations for the Full Dining Chain
The restaurant-discovery achievements form one continuous chain based on eating at different locations around the city.
Dining Achievements
• Foodie — Eat at 5 different restaurants
• Gastronomy Nerd — Try dishes from 10 separate dining locations
• Connoisseur — Sample the menu at 20 distinct eateries
• Gourmet — Discover and dine at 30 unique food spots
• Megacity Epicurean — Complete the culinary tour of 50 dining spots across Nivalis
If you're aiming for all achievements, 50 unique dining spots is the real endpoint. The first four milestones are effectively checkpoints on the way there.
Story, Side Quest, and Activity Achievements
The remaining achievements are tied to named quests, characters, activities, or other events around Nivalis.
Some currently have explicit requirements in Steam's achievement data, while others only show the achievement name. I'm keeping those name-only achievements exactly that way rather than guessing what triggers them.
Achievements With Confirmed Requirements
• Seen a Ghost — Make contact with a ghost in Nivalis
• Good Game — Play a game of Chess
• A Knight in Nivalis — Win the A Knight in Nivalis chess tournament
• Coffee Time — Deliver 3 runs of coffee for Coffee PoccoCup
• Aseptic — Solve the Aseptic case
• Rat Whisperer — Help Gladstone on a secret mission during curfew
• Home Makeover — Design the interior of an apartment for a client
• Certified Decorator — Stage 5 apartments for clients
Certified Decorator naturally follows Home Makeover, while A Knight in Nivalis expands beyond simply playing chess by requiring you to win the named tournament.
The following achievements appear in the current Steam list without a visible description explaining their exact unlock condition:
Current Name-Only Achievements
• Noodle Bar Introduction
• Seafarer
• After Curfew
• The Network
• Lost Child
• Scorpion
• Find Love
• Find Salma's Brother
• Mask for Iann
• Where is Ava?
• Fauxter's Band
• The Lost Captain
• Thaddeus Mystery
Those names strongly suggest specific story or quest content, but the achievement data alone doesn't establish the exact completion requirement. I'll keep those as TBD rather than attaching made-up quest steps to them.
The Best Way to Approach All 120 Achievements
I wouldn't approach the Nivalis Nights achievement list as 120 individual tasks. Most of the bigger categories reward doing the same activity repeatedly at increasing milestones.
Run your venues normally to build customer, review, revenue, and venue achievements together. Explore new districts while watching for apartments, graffiti, menu cards, and postcards. Keep expanding your greenhouse toward the all-crops requirement, eat somewhere new whenever you find another restaurant, and keep track of individual fish as you catch them.
Completion Priorities
• Let customer and revenue milestones build while operating venues
• Explore each new district instead of only unlocking its visit achievement
• Track the 11 named apartments as you discover new neighborhoods
• Keep graffiti, menu cards, and postcards in mind while exploring
• Work toward all crop types rather than grinding each farming milestone separately
• Keep a checklist of the 24 individual fish species
• Eat at new locations until you reach the 50-location dining achievement
• Revisit name-only quest achievements once their exact requirements are confirmed
That approach consolidates most of the list into a handful of long-term goals and leaves the specific quests, rare fish, collectibles, and remaining hidden requirements as the cleanup work toward all 120 achievements.
