NUTS on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

NUTS is a single-player walking simulator surveillance mystery. Record the squirrels, report your findings, and piece together what’s really going on in Melmoth Forest.

NUTS is a story rich, detective and nature game developed by Joon, Pol, Muutsch and Char & Torfi and published by Noodlecake.
Released on February 04th 2021 is available on Windows and MacOS in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 873 reviews of which 765 were positive and 108 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 or higher 64bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 450 or higher with 1GB Memory
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.8+
  • Processor: 2011 or newer Intel Core i5, or M1
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Discrete GPU
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Dedicated graphics card required

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Feb. 2025
The game is beautiful, oh I love the art style so much. The game play is not bad but I don't think I will play it a second time.
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Jan. 2025
Solid short game. Nice aesthetic and character/story. Feels like a shorter version of firewatch with a bit more interesting gameplay. Also similar to firewatch, the creepy vibes is a nice touch but in the end stays fairly tame (so don't go in expecting a full horror experience). Also kinda pricey for such a small game (though it is pretty well polished to be fair), but I got it on a big sale so no complaints.
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Dec. 2024
NUTS is a good causal game where you take videos of squirrels and have to find where they come from. The designs are originals and colorful and the ambient is very cozy. The only negaticve point is it's a little bit repetitive. It worth it with a discount price, I recommend it!!! 🐿️💗
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Sept. 2024
Very peaceful formulaic gameplay with light story but simple and sweet. Can be repetitive the game is short enough that it doesn't drag on.
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Aug. 2024
Really not what I expected at all - for some reason I thought this was going to be a zany psych-horror-comedy about a researcher being driven mad by squirrels, and instead it's actually a rather serious environmentalist thriller. Basically a much better Firewatch in some ways. The puzzle elements are rather unique, as you have to place video cameras during the day and study the footage at night, essentially making this a very unconventional detective game. I can understand why some might consider this mechanic rather finicky, but as someone who had messed around with amateur audio editing in the past I found that element rather well done - you do need a sense of perfectionism. To lightly touch upon a major spoiler, I can understand why some might be disappointed by the ending - I'm generally not a fan of open endings, especially in games which feature such deadpan social commentary as this - but I feel like it works here - the pro-conservation and anti-corruption themes are very much relevant right here, right now, a happy ending would be disingenuous and ruin the message of the game somewhat, while a bummer ending would just be fucking strange. About performance issues - I did suffer a rather surprising FPS drop on the Steam Deck, which surprised me, but I'm not someone who really cares about that kinda stuff - it's just kinda rare, especially for an indie title. I wouldn't try to run this on a potato laptop.
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NUTS
8.3
765
108
Online players
0
Developer
Joon, Pol, Muutsch, Char & Torfi
Publisher
Noodlecake
Release 04 Feb 2021
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