Nightingale offline mode in the works after negative feedback

Fans were not happy about online-only

Marco Wutz | Feb 23, 2024

Nightingale offline mode in the works after negative feedback /

Inflexion Games announced that it would develop an offline mode for Nightingale, the survival crafting game it recently released via Early Access. Players were not happy about the game forcing them to play online and made their opinion widely known. It looks like the developers understood the message and have adapted their plans to indulge the community.

Inflexion posted a statement on Nightingale’s official Discord server, saying it had “seen a lot of discussion in recent days around our decision to make Nightingale online-only at our Early Access release. We understand that this can be frustrating for a number of reasons.”

A Nightingale player wearing a coat and holding a rifle stands in front of a castle-like doorway. The door space is filled with orange light — In Nightingale, players can travel to other realms through portals / Inflexion

“Our vision for the game since inception was to create an interconnected series of Realms, with the idea of allowing for co-operative exploration in mind – a universe bigger than a single Realm or server,” the post added. “That meant we made a choice early in development between supporting co-op from day one or focusing development on an offline mode.”

According to the developers, they focused on the online co-op element first, as this was the more challenging aspect from a technical perspective. “Looking back on that decision, we misjudged what some of you were looking for in your experience,” they admitted.

At the end of the statement, Inflexion announced that it was “now prioritizing and developing an offline mode that we plan to release as soon as feasible.” It promised to deliver updates on this as soon as it could.

Nightingale so far peaked at around 47,569 players on Steam (via SteamDB), which is far below the numbers of other titles from the same genre that were recently released, such as Palworld and Enshrouded.

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Published Feb 23, 2024

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg