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It’s a survival game renaissance! Hot on the heels of the mega-popular Enshrouded and Palworld, Nightingale ($29.99) enters Steam Early Access. Featuring similar core features and gameplay loops to Conan Exiles and Valheim, Nightingale injects wit, character, and style into a genre that has historically lacked in those departments. Nightingale’s underlying fundamentals offer an invigorating co-op crafting and adventuring experience, despite frame rate issues and clumsy combat. Still, it’s incomplete, so we’ll hold off scoring the survival game until it exits Steam Early Access.

(Credit: Inflexion Games)

A World Worth…

Nightingale has been one of the most highly anticipated survival crafting games of this year. Unfortunately, its early access launch has highlighted the game’s shortcomings that need to be highlighted. Here are five things Nightingale needs to improve before its 1.0 launch.

Offline Mode

This has been something players immediately clamored for. Because of Nightingale’s always-online framework of dedicated servers hosting realms, it’s clear the developers underestimated players’ desire to play offline and host realms on their own. This is especially true when not long after Nightingale’s launch, Inflexion games clarified that an offline mode was coming very soon.

It’s likely offline mode will arrive much sooner than Nightingale’s 1.0 launch, so that’s certainly a good…

Survival games are more fun with friends, and this also applies to Nightingale. If you’ve previously played a survival title with your squad, you’ll be familiar with dedicated servers and will be wondering how you can set one up in Nightingale.

When I installed Nightingale with my friends, we weren’t sure whether we would start our journey together or join someone else’s world. We decided to start from scratch, but to do that we had to figure out exactly how to host a dedicated server in Nightingale.

Hosting dedicated servers in Nightingale

Nightingale doesn’t support dedicated servers, but you don’t actually need them to play with your friends. While setting up your own private server isn’t an option…

Screenshot: Inflexion Games

For anyone planning to play Nightingale with some friends, how exactly do you make a dedicated server? You can play this survival crafting game in a party of six players.

Whether you’re planning to create a public or private server, there are different ways to experience Nightingale’s multiplayer features.

Nightingale: How to create a dedicated server

There are two different ways to play with other players online, which are public and private servers. Having a server is pretty simple, and it doesn’t involve you purchasing any dedicated servers or server hosting. Inflexion Games runs every player’s Realms and hosts them itself, which makes playing Nightingale in co-op pretty simple.

Private server

You and your friends can all share one Realm, even…

Games are always better with friends, and Nightingale is no exception to that rule. So, without further ado, here is our guide on how to play with friends in Nightingale.

Playing Multiplayer With Friends in Nightingale

To start, Nightingale’s game loop is all about exploring randomly generated fantasy realms full of, for lack of a better word, fantastic things. Now, if Nightingale were like most other survival crafting games, then you would be the one to host your own realm locally, use the developers (usually public) dedicated servers, or pay for a dedicated server yourself. What Inflexion Games has done to improve upon that usual server structure is hosting every single realm on dedicated servers at no cost to the players.

What this means is you can play with your friends in their…