Nicotine & Knives is a top-down pixel roguelike where every run pushes you deeper across shifting dimensions. Fight brutal bosses, wield weapons and items with wild unique bonuses, and gamble your own stats for a shot at power.
AI was used for localization into languages besides English.
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AI was used to optimize performance for thousands of enemies and many projectiles on screen.
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Used AI to over optimize the performance of the game as it is very painful to have thousands of enemies on your screen at the same time and 100 projectiles per seconds without turning your pc into an oven.
Also used AI for localization. (Added different languages besides English)
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Growth
Wishlists est.10Likely 10–107–14× Steam followers
Steam followers1Tracking since Sep 23, 2026Steam · public
Followers 24h—Tracking since Sep 23, 2026Steam · daily
7-day growth—Tracking since Sep 23, 2026Sep 18 – Sep 24
How we estimate wishlists. Steam games typically collect 7–14 wishlists per follower; we use 10× as the central figure.
Steam followers
1 now · Daily snapshot of public Steam data
Collecting dataGameDB started tracking this game on Sep 23, 2026. The chart fills in as daily snapshots arrive; the latest reading is 1.
Why it’s here: 1 Steam followers. Upcoming games rank by Steam follower growth over the last day and week, weighed against the audience they already have. Released and upcoming games are charted separately; estimates and stars are never mixed in.
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