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Offline Progression
Close the app, go live your life, come back to meaningful gains every time. Up to 24 hours of full-speed progress, every cycle. How it works →
Tideward
An Idle Almanac
An almanac of a small coastal world you tend, even while you sleep.
Launches February 11, 2027 ◆ iPhone · iPad · Mac · Apple TV · Vision Pro · Apple Watch ◆ Join the Discord
Pre-ordering is free, and so is the download. The full game is a one-time $9.99 unlock you buy inside the game after launch, if you want to.
On Android? Join the free open beta on Google Play →
Open beta on Google Play, free ◆ Phones and tablets, Android 10 or newer ◆ Join the Discord
What it is
Built for the long haul.
A premium idle RPG designed around respect: for your time, your privacy, and your devices.
II.
Seamless Sync
CloudKit powered. Your progress syncs privately across every Apple device you own, no accounts, no servers of mine. On the Apple Watch →
III.
Privacy First
No tracking, no ads, no third-party SDKs, on Apple or Android. On Apple devices your save lives in your iCloud, encrypted by Apple in transit and at rest; on Android it stays on your device. The full stance →
IV.
Community Features
Opt-in leaderboards and leagues are on the way, share scores only if you want, fully under your control.
One save, every deck
Native on every Apple device.
Tend a trade at the desk, check it from the couch, glance at your wrist while the tide comes in. One CloudKit save carries the whole almanac.
Open beta on Google Play, free
Native on Android phones and tablets.
Tideward for Android is in open beta on Google Play, for phones and tablets running Android 10 or newer. It is free, every trade is open while you test, and nothing in it can be bought.
Phones and tablets, Android 10 or newer About the Android version
Where it runs
Eight platforms, one developer.
Every Apple device, from the Watch on your wrist to Vision Pro, plus Android phones and tablets and Windows PC. The same almanac on each. Your save and your purchase stay with the store you get it from.
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Apple
iPhone · iPad · Mac · Apple TV · Vision Pro · Apple Watch
Pre-order open, free beta on TestFlight
Pre-order on the App Store Or join the free beta -
Android
Phones and tablets, Android 10 or newer
Open beta on Google Play, free
Join the Android beta About the Android version -
Windows PC
On Steam
Beta on its way
Get the launch email About the PC version
The Almanac
28 trades to keep.
Tend each one to 99, at your pace, in any order. Combat, gathering, artisan, wayfaring: the depth of an MMO, the patience of a lighthouse-keeper. See every trade →
Combat
8
Gathering
7
Artisan
9
Wayfaring
4
How Tideward stacks up against the rest of the genre: games like Melvor Idle · idle games like RuneScape · best idle RPGs for iPhone · best idle games for iPhone.
The pets
Somebody has to keep you company.
Every trade has a pet, and so do the bosses. Each one is earned in play and keeps its bonus for good. Some of them are even awake.
Said plainly
What it does, and what it will never do.
Most game pages are a list of wins. Here is the list with the limits printed beside it, so you can tell before you download whether this is your kind of game.
Six things it does that the genre mostly does not
- The wrist is a place to play. A real fight runs on Apple Watch, both swing timers and your familiar beside you, not a bar you glance at. Six Apple platforms, one purchase.
- The game tells you whether you can leave. The Harbormaster's Forecast dry-runs your current fight across the whole offline window, then says whether you hold or fall and what the haul should be.
- Twenty-four hours offline, at full speed. No throttle, no ad to claim it, no premium tier that doubles it. The math.
- Sixteen languages at launch. In the box on day one, not patched in later and not left to community packs.
- Free to try, then $9.99 once. Family Sharing is on, so the household is covered by the same purchase. Every price, on one page.
- Built for VoiceOver and Dynamic Type. Reduce Motion, Increase Contrast, and Smart Invert respected, and state is never signalled by colour alone. This genre is an accessibility desert, and that is a poor reason to leave anyone out.
Three things it will never do
- No mods. App Store apps cannot load third-party code. That is a rule of the platform, not a feature held back, and I will never imply otherwise. Everything in the game is in the game.
- No cross-platform save. Your save and your unlock stay with the store you get the game from. Apple devices share one save through iCloud; the Android and PC versions each keep their own, and a purchase on one store does not unlock another.
- No live presence. No servers, no accounts, no friends list of mine, no player counter. Nothing of mine is online, so nothing can report that you are.
Tideward is not built to keep taking your money. Every purchase is direct and one-time: you see exactly what it is, you pay once, and it is yours for good. No ads, no subscription, no loot boxes, no premium currency.
What it costs, and when
Nobody pays anything before launch day. The order of events, in full:
- Pre-order Free
Nothing is charged when you pre-order, and nothing is charged on launch day. The game downloads itself to your devices.
- TestFlight beta Free
Unlocking the full game costs nothing while you test. The purchase screen shows a price, but a beta purchase is an Apple test purchase: no money is taken, and it does not carry over to the App Store version.
- Android open beta Free
The whole game is open while you test, and nothing in it can be bought, so no money can be taken. When the Android version launches, the paid part of the game locks again until you unlock it.
- Launch day, February 11, 2027 Free to try, then $9.99 once
The download is free. One $9.99 purchase inside the app unlocks the rest of the game. You pay it once, only if and when you choose to.
The Tavern
Join the growing community.
Beta testers are already shaping the future of Tideward, and the pre-order is open on the App Store for everyone else. Come help build something special, TestFlight is capped at the first 1,000 testers, and the Discord is where the count gets called out and the conversation happens.
Tideward for Android is in open beta on Google Play, for phones and tablets running Android 10 or newer. It is free, every trade is open while you test, and nothing in it can be bought.
Active
Discord every day
Live
Beta on TestFlight
One dev
Built with passion
A Manu Games sub-brand
The Assembly Line.
Optimize everything. Automate the rest.
Factory game news, idle game roundups, patch notes, and Tideward dev logs, twice a week: the Deep Dive on Tuesdays, the Conveyor Belt on Fridays. For the people who play Factorio, Satisfactory, Shapez 2, and Melvor Idle.
From the dev blog
Latest posts.
Notes on building an idle RPG that respects your time. Long-form, irregular, written in first person.
Beta
How the Tideward alpha went, and how the beta is going
The Tideward alpha in numbers: 29 releases, 74 bug reports, 16 languages. Then the first eleven days of beta, and what is left before February 11, 2027.
BetaTideward is in beta, and no keeper gets wiped
Tideward is feature-complete and in beta ahead of its February 11, 2027 launch. Nothing you have built is reset, not at beta and not at 1.0. Here is exactly what changes, and the one thing that does.
Idle GamesMelvor Idle vs RuneScape: what the idle version keeps, and what it drops
Melvor Idle and RuneScape side by side: skills, the shared XP table, combat, economy, cost, offline play, and a day in each. Plus where Tideward fits.
About the developer
Built by one dev who plays what he builds.
“I'm building the idle RPG I've always wanted to play, with deep systems, respect for your time, and zero compromise on privacy.”
Tideward is a solo project from North Carolina, written in pure SwiftUI, synced through CloudKit, and shipped without a single third-party SDK. No ads, no tracking, no growth team, just the game and the people who tend it.
· Seth, founder of Manu Games LLC
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