Nightfall Guide: Getting Started

What is Nightfall?

Nightfall is a released action game by bippinbits, Cameron Paxton and Picster (Raffaele Picca). It was made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 58, whose theme was Collector.

The player is an old god reduced to a single, pulsating heart. The character is described as a hollow shell waiting to be made whole, and the stated objective is to gather six souls and reforge the old god’s body.

The forest and its choices

Players venture into a creepy forest to harvest strange resources. The forest is also home to broken people. According to the official description, players can soothe them, exploit them or take them by force.

Nightfall’s official tags include atmospheric, creepy, dark, horror and pixel art. The supplied information does not explain the precise consequences of the choices involving the forest’s inhabitants.

Protecting the base

The game also has a cliffside base. Oozing pests crawl out of the forest, and players must repel them and protect the base.

These base encounters sit alongside the forest expeditions and resource harvesting described on the official page. The official material supplied here does not specify controls, input devices or individual combat actions.

Browser-build notes

Nightfall is available for HTML5 and Windows. The official page warns that the web build may have lag and audio glitches.

The web version is a post-jam build. Its listed changes include better balance, several bug fixes, improved sounds, an interactive ending scene and changes to the map layout. The page says these changes do not fundamentally alter the gameplay or narrative.

How to play

Open the GameTio game page, select Play, then choose Run game on the developer’s itch.io page. Follow the instructions shown by the HTML5 build while pursuing the stated goal of gathering six souls and reforging the old god’s body.

GameTio has not played the game, and these details come from the official page.