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Created on Jun 15, 2025

A way to improve the steam ratings

Greetings!
After reading the june news i was incredibly happy to see Nightingale still alive and kicking!
In the comments of the repost of the news the voices varied. many were happy like me but many others explained why they fell off from the game.
Since increasing the steam ratings was part of the news blog, i thought about a feature that may help win back peoples favour:

It seems many were not fond of the storied realms. I'm not one of them, but I can understand the sentiment. Nightingale's biggest gimmick is the traversal of generated realms, an endless journey to find your way home. Some of that "endless" feeling was taken away with the handcrafted realms. BUT, i beleive the storied realms are great for the Main quest. They create nice and impressive settings and keep up the wonder that nightingale encapsulates.

So, an idea of mine is this:
Instead of scrapping either of these two aspects of the game, one should return to the roots of what makes nightingale great.

We have a personal Portal that allows us to visit realms of difffernt levels, but the realms are the same 3 architypes as we find at the crossroads, so the personal portal is nothing more as a shortcut currently.
What would make the portal interesting would be new mayor realm cards that lead to very unique and differnt realms, maybe even with unique threats.
What would also be interesting is adding realmcards that can not be crafted. So instead of finding cards as an easier way to get them, you can find unique cards that are not craftible by the player. It will make those cards more valuable and thus more special when played. This could be done with both Major and minor cards.
Here is an imaginary example inspired by one of the ingame texts:

You have wandered the realms and have come across a perculiad "empyrian" card. You've never seen it before and are not able to craft it. When placed in the portal it takes you to a desolate realm, full of massive empyrian structures. These can vary from palace-like buildings to massive portals and teleporters, showing the advancements of the Empyrian court. There new and unique lore could be found, hinting more towards what happeend to the court.

the same could be done with other fae courts by the way. It would allow the player to learn about the lesser known courts aswell. Just imagine finding a "heartless" card and falling into a realm dominated by the court of hearts.....Now thats what nightingale has the potential to do!

I really hope the game can go in such a direction, although I am aware how much work it'll take.
my personal approach to this would be to just...add cards with the occasional update.
We don't need 10 new realm variants in one update, 1 or 2 is enough. Then with each update we may get one and slowly but surely the variety of nightingale increases.


Again, i am very impressed by Nightingale and I hope to see it attain its full potential (kinda like NMS did, huge fan of that project aswell). There is a great foundation here! Awesome lore and designs too! just keep up the good work :)

Category Tags Realm Travel, Realm Cards
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