The latest update aims to bring players back to Nightingale.
Nightingale lost a large proportion of its active players shortly after its release in February 2024. But the survival game with a slightly Victorian setting is far from giving up and delivers with Update 0.3 a desired feature.
Offline mode is expected to bring about a turnaround
While at the time of release, SteamDB 47,569 simultaneously active players, there are currently only 2,030 at the daily peak. In the reviews The game has a mixed 62 percent positive user rating.
In addition to the poor performance, players complained about the lack of an offline mode, which further harmed the player due to server problems at launch.
The now released update 0.3 establishes an offline mode, whose Difficulty level for solo players has been adapted. In order to play the game offline, however, a new character must be created. However, those who have already played can at least skip the tutorial.
Aaryn Flynn, CEO of Inflexion Games, explained in a opinion:
“Offline mode was something we planned for Nightingale from the beginning, but we really underestimated how important it would be for many players at Early Access launch.”
He also assures that the mode will be further expanded and that wants to listen to players’ feedback in the future.
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Nightingale: We fight wolves, collect resources and return home
What else is in the update?
Furthermore, since the update it is possible Access materials while craftingthat are already stored in the base, so players no longer have to run back and forth between their crates when they want to craft something.
There are also Joan of Arc, Edgar Allan Poe and Taliesin the Bard three new NPCsRecently, new options were introduced for Character creation added. Players can also make changes to existing characters in the main menu.
The complete list of adjustments and new features can be found in the official patch notes and on page 2 of this article.
As you can read in our preview review linked above, Nightingale had potential, but was unable to fully exploit it.
Did you play Nightingale during the Early Access release? Do you share the community’s criticism or are there other problems in your opinion? Feel free to write to us in the comments.
