Nimbus
Fair · Short indie · 2010
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.5h 20.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 252 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.66 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.49 (75% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 666 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
48 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Marble It Up! Ultra ($29.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Polyball ($3.99, scores 26).
More about Nimbus
The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Finishing takes 3.5 hours; clearing it takes 20, which is 5.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
28% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Nimbus is a lot of fun and very pretty, and it's basically just as challenging as you want it to be. There are a lot of optional levels, you can configure how you want the checkpoints to work, and your time records don't unlock any content or anything so it doesn't matter if you don't care about trying to accomplish them. However... If you _are_ interested in time records, be aware that Nimbus has one enormous bug...
2 more reviews
Truly an amazing game. It is extremely fun and addicting. The game seems simple at first but with every added obstacle the ame become more and more complex. The satisfaction of completing a level you first thought impossible is amazing. I highly reccomend this game to anyone who enjoys this genre of games.
Its most likely the same broom named "Nimbus 2000" series used in quidditch from harry potter volume that gave developers the idea and also the name. Its more like a small broom, only not like broom but just a jetpack enabled cute thing that we need to land right through a racing track to proceed to next stage. As far as the game is concerned, seriously, this is one of the hardest one I played. Not only it is quite...
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Cite this score
Nimbus scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/50000/nimbusReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.