Source of the Nile Digital Edition (2024)

- Developer
- Friday Night Software
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- Adventure, Strategy
- Rating
- 4.4 of 5, 9 player ratings
- Typical playtime
- about 2.7 hours
- Where to get it
- Steam
How it feels
A thoughtful, methodical expedition where you carefully weigh risks against rewards on an ever-changing hex-grid map.
educationalchallengingstrategicrisk-basedprocedurally generatedturn-basedexploratorymethodical
What players say
Players say it captures the board game's brutal difficulty and luck-driven disasters, often ending expeditions in the first few hexes. The lack of a settings menu and widescreen support frustrates some, while others praise the emergent stories and replayability.
Screenshots






More games like this
- Tales & Tactics (2024)
- Rockets, Planes, Soldiers (2024)
- Curious Expedition (2016)
- Sandwalkers (2024)
- Kingdom, Dungeon, and Hero (2024)
- Bounties of Babylon (2024)
- Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears (2024)
- Treasure Atlas (2024)
More by Friday Night Software
- A toad well travelled (2022)
- Day at the Races (2023)
This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like playing and it picks from the whole catalog, or browse by platform and genre.