Nightingale
Skip · RPG · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 16, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 26.4h
- Value
- $1.14/hr
- Reviews
- 66% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 34% over the last 30 days against 66% all-time.
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($14.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 67% ($9.89)
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, Radeon RX 580 or Intel Arc A580, 70 GB of storage. Windows only.
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was February 2026. It has been discounted 20 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 85 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Voidtrain ($29.99, scores 32) and RuneScape: Dragonwilds ($29.99, scores 53) both outscore it.
Players rate it 66 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 34 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 2,323 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
26.4 hours to finish it, 124 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
24% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
53 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 14:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A bit grindy and questy for me. But still fun, you can build some ok things, though it is not as good as some other building games. The idea of generating world maps to explore or inhabit as part of the actual gameplay is really cool and exploring those maps was a lot of fun.
I have no actual insight into what's happening at the studio that made this game, but this game is clearly a victim of low sales, not a lack of interest from the developers. I wouldn't call it abandoning the game. I'd call it "getting hired to make a different game to pay the bills because this one isn't paying the bills." I wouldn't be surprised if they returned to active development with new content at some point...
This game had so much promise, the devs seemed to really want to make a genuinely good game by the way they handled the launch. The original version of Nightingale wasn't very fun or intuitive to play but the devs have basically made a completely different game from where it was to where it is now. Unfortunately, there's a lot of friction against your progress in this game. Everything is extremely grindy and it gets...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Nightingale scores 16/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1928980/nightingaleReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19, price as of Oct 1.
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