Armed with two trusty climbing picks, I sat in the desert heat, looking up at a gigantic cliffside. I had already fallen twice, but that wasn’t about to stop me trying again. After all, as an open-world PvE (player versus environment) survival game, Nightingale has so much to offer, and it’s up to you to explore it all.
In a play session with the developers, I was able to join a group of gutsy Realmwalkers who navigate a web of transdimensional planes after being stranded in strange worlds thanks to the collapse of the arcane portal. We first started exploring the desert realm; we saw ancient ruins hidden away in caves, bizarre and slightly aggressive golden robots who made a living scanning the sandy wasteland, and finally, an abandoned settlement atop a butte (a flat-topped, steep-sided tower of rock). The only problem was that I’d have to make it up there first.
