Nightingale News

Tencent and Inflexion Games’ Victorian-era survival game, Nightingale, officially launched into early access this week and the community’s reactions was... well, meh. While Steam players acknowledged the game’s potential, they feel that it would benefit from various quality-of-life improvements, a more complex combat system, and more challenging puzzles. The main complaint, however, is the lack of an offline mode and [...]

When Nightingale launches into early access tomorrow, it will be doing so exclusively on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Since the game is available on Steam, Steam Deck owners are naturally curious as to whether they’ll be able to jump into the Fae Realms on the portable console. The answer is yes and no. The Steam Deck will technically [...]

Inflexion Games has moved up Nightingale’s early access launch by two days and will now be launching on Steam and the Epic Games Store on February 20. According to the studio, launching a few days earlier will give them time to head off any glaring issues before they’re swamped with the weekend rush. “Having the game release at the start [...]

Nightingale’s final stress test is now live, and it’s been going so great that Inflexion Games decided to extend it by a few hours. Obviously, the whole point of the playtest is to try and break the servers and the studio is giving players until 6 p.m. PST to give it all they’ve got. The stress test was originally scheduled [...]

Arachnophobes needn’t worry about coming face to face with eight-legged creepy crawlies during their adventures in Nightingale, as they’ll have the option to toggle them off in the survival game’s early access build and during Saturday’s stress test. Other accessibility features that players can look forward to include a third-person mode, FOV sliders, the ability to disable motion blur, and [...]

Inflexion Games is preparing for Nightingale’s early access launch next month and is making sure that everything is in order with a final stress test on February 3rd. The playtest will run for approximately three hours starting at 10 a.m. PST and will feature a “tailored version” of the early game minus the tutorial and with no build restrictions. Testers [...]

We’re now less than a month from the launch of Nightingale, one of the biggest and most anticipated games of the year. Surprisingly, there’s been a lack of gameplay previews that usually accompany big releases as the Victorian Gaslamp survival crafting game prepares to make its debut on February 22. Fortunately, IGN has got the video game community covered with [...]

Inflexion Games has shared more information about what the multiplayer experience will be like in Nightingale in its latest dev blog. The team initially planned for the realm-hopping game to be an MMO but has since scaled it down to a shared-world multiplayer game where up to six players will be able to explore the Victorian fantasy multiverse together. According [...]

With only three months to go until Nightingale’s early access launch, Inflexion Games wants to make sure that the servers are up to the task with an upcoming stress test set for the beginning of the year. According to the studio, the goal of the playtest is to “break the portal network” and rigorously test the servers’ capabilities to help [...]