Emphasis on a lore-rich main questline, the complexity of the crafting systems, and the presence of environmental puzzles are the main gameplay differences between Nightingale and other survival-crafting games. Beyond this, Nightingale’s endless Realm exploration is also a breath of fresh air for the genre, steadily introducing players to almost infinitely diverse environments as they grow accustomed to Nightingale’s progression loop of building, crafting, and questing.