(*24*)Hey everybody! I’m comfortable to announce that our new sport, Tides of Tomorrow, is coming to PlayStation 5 on February 24, 2026!
(*24*)At DigixArt, we’re all about discovering recent and enjoyable methods to inform tales by video games, experimenting with concepts which are each revolutionary and significant.
(*24*)Our sport, Highway 96, was a procedural street journey the place you’d go on a number of runs with completely different characters, one after the opposite. After it launched, some group members joked, “We must always make Highway 96 however with boats! Boat 96!”
(*24*)However then a extra severe concept sparked: what if every of these runs in Highway 96 have been truly performed by completely different folks, and their decisions impacted one another — and the world?
(*24*)That’s the place the core concept for Tides of Tomorrow got here from: what if we used multiplayer parts to form the narrative itself?
(*24*)Normally, video games with asynchronous multiplayer are focusing on methods and gameplay interactions. We noticed a chance to go additional: to let gamers actually affect one another’s tales by their selections.
(*24*)We’ve additionally chosen a brand-new setting: a vibrant, post-apocalyptic ocean world. Every of our video games sort out a significant matter, and we actually wished to say one thing in regards to the environmental disaster. This theme and the multiplayer mechanics are tightly interwoven… in methods I don’t need to reveal simply but!
(*24*)So how does all of it work?
(*24*)When beginning a sport of Tides of Tomorrow, it’s essential to choose a participant to “observe”. This participant has performed the sport earlier than you and could be a complete stranger, somebody out of your pal record, or perhaps a well-known streamer.
(*24*)You start your journey rescued from lethal waters, with no reminiscence of who you’re or how you bought there. Someway, you’ve woke up centuries after a large flood wiped out most of civilization. Now, scattered communities survive throughout a harsh ocean world.
(*24*)You’re contaminated with Plastemia, a illness attributable to an historic poison — microplastic air pollution. Should you don’t discover a treatment quickly, you’ll slowly flip into plastic.
(*24*)However you’ll quickly uncover there are others such as you. All the time discovered within the ocean, with no recollections of their previous. You’re all related. The folks of this world name you Tidewalkers.
(*24*)In Tides of Tomorrow, every participant embodies one of these Tidewalkers, a mysterious group of sea nomads. Gamers must query their relationship to one another, problem their morality and study extra in regards to the bond all of them share.
(*24*)You journey the ocean aboard your trusted boat, visiting location after location — every one beforehand visited by the participant you’re following.
(*24*)Because of our “asynchronous imaginative and prescient” system, you’ll see echoes of this participant’s decisions and actions, within the kind of “ghosts”. These visions enable you to keep away from traps, resolve puzzles, examine what occurred earlier than, or just adapt primarily based on the opposite participant’s actions.
(*24*)Not solely that, however the sport’s NPCs will keep in mind what the opposite participant did they usually received’t hesitate to speak about it. That different participant was not in some sort of parallel universe: their actions on the world are concrete and can have tangible penalties on your expertise.
(*24*)For instance: if a participant stole one thing helpful from an essential NPC, that character would possibly now hate all Tidewalkers, forcing you to sneak round as a substitute of being welcomed.
(*24*)Some ranges can change drastically relying on what the final participant did. With out spoiling our secret recipe, every degree blends handcrafted narrative moments with systemic sport parts, leading to a singular expertise for each participant. That’s a real problem to construct, as a result of we take the earlier participant’s decisions into consideration, in addition to your individual decisions, to ensure you nonetheless really feel in management of your journey.
(*24*)Every new step of your journey helps you to select the place to go subsequent — and who to observe. Will you follow the identical particular person? Strive somebody new? Or choose primarily based on your individual instincts?
There are tons of causes to observe one participant over one other. Possibly you want their playstyle, need to uncover their decisions, or to profit from the assets they left behind.
(*24*)In typical DigixArt vogue, your folks and you’ll undergo a wild combine of conditions, encounter memorable characters and shocking gameplay challenges. You’ll should make powerful selections, whereas your survival and the longer term of this world are at stake…
(*24*)However don’t overlook —your actions may even have an effect on the gamers who select to observe you.
(*24*)So… what sort of legacy will you allow behind?
(*24*)To seek out out for your self, wishlist the sport right this moment and be part of us on the excessive seas in 2026, to be among the many first gamers to depart your mark on the world of Tides of Tomorrow!