Nightingale developer at an Inflexion point

Following the underwhelming performance of Payday 3, Starbreeze’s Board of Directors has replaced CEO Tobias Sjögren. Board member Juergen Goeldner will act as interim CEO while the company searches for a permanent replacement. Sjögren is still available during the transition, though.

T1 Essence is the second tier of 's currency system, which features four different tiers of money you can farm and use throughout your adventures. Determined by rarity, any form of Essence you discover can be exchanged for new items, upgrades, and more. You need to interact with different activities within the world to gather all the available forms of this currency.

When Inflexion Games announced Nightingale in 2021, I was mildly interested in what I saw. I genuinely like survival games, having dabbled in Valheim and V Rising quite a bit. But what drew me towards this particular game was its setting. 

Surviving in demands quick mastery of its system, and grasping these secret mechanics early will help players make the most of their time in this must-play gaslamp fantasy. However, with so much to do, it can be easy to miss important information hidden beneath the game’s Victorian rouge. The sooner players can discern the information available to them, the sooner they’ll be able to avoid unnecessary frustration, optimize their resources, and overcome the game’s many challenges.

Sometimes I wonder whether every genre fantasy RPG or RPG-inflected game is essentially a journey towards the Big City. Most such games start you off on the periphery of the world, out in the sleepy and/or brutish hamlets of FirstActShire, Chosen One County, and send you on a loose quest towards the cosmopolitan centre, where you'll typically learn about the ultimate villain of the piece, gain access to the juiciest concentration of shops, crafting facilities and quest-givers, and glean some hint at the location of the endgame dungeon. Sometimes the quest takes days of playtime, as in Baldur's Gate 3. Sometimes it takes less than an hour, as in the original Destiny. It's a common-enough device that when an RPG starts you off in the Big City, like Dragon Age 2, or creatively "provincialises" the Big City, like Roadwarden, I feel slightly unnerved.

Realm Cards in offer a lot of interesting ways to spice up the game, and the most memorable ones tend to do so in ways that are truly inventive or transformative. Although some Realm Cards determine basic attributes of a generated realm like its biome, others have more unusual effects. Minor Realm Cards are where the system tends to shine, making it possible to break the laws of nature or randomize unique attributes to keep exploration fresh even after plenty of gameplay experience.

's fantasy world may not seem like it has modern weapons, but you can get a gun and other firearms if you obtain certain blueprints. The various Realms you can visit with your character introduce new quests that offer item schematics from unique worlds. Crafting the right Card will give you a chance to visit a land whose people can teach you how to create a gun of your own.

Inflexion Games’ long-awaited Nightingale launched last week for PC via Steam Early Access. Unfortunately, it’s faced several server issues, whether it disconnects while entering the game or when traveling between realms.

With the launches of Helldivers 2, Nightingale, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Foamstars, and Skull & Bones, February 2024 has been packed with new multiplayer games planned to have live service tails.

Nightingalelaunched into its official Early Access this week to plenty of anticipation and mixed feedback, as it presents a unique theming and spin on the popular co-op survival game. But it turns out that many players didn’t want the co-op part, as the game has plenty to offer already on its own. In response, the development team has announced that it’s bringing an “Offline Mode” up on its list of priorities. 

Inflexion is prioritising an offline play mode for Nightingale. This follows on from player feedback, with many questioning the developer's decision to make Nightingale online-only on its early access release earlier this month.

Nightingale studio Inflexion Games has said it’s prioritising the development of an offline mode for the recently released game.