What's on the slipway right now, what comes next, and the heading we hold after that. No dates we can't keep, and everything on this chart lands as a free update to the game you bought.
The work in progress today, out in the open.
While a trade runs live, a visitor calls now and then and waits for a glance. In Fishing, Woodcutting, Mining and Cooking, half of them are the ferryman, rowing your keeper to an islet game that can pay up to 50% more for four minutes; the rest bring a gift. More islet games are coming. Leave them be and the trade pays what it always did.
In the game: Fishing, Woodcutting, Mining, Cooking
Your keeper works in a 3D scene of their own at every trade, and every fight plays out in one: from the cookfire and the anvil to the bindery and the stars, each drawn from what you are actually making and the best tool you own.
In the game: Every fight, Pilfering, Apothecary, Fishing, Wayfaring, Woodcutting, Mining, Cooking, Forging, Kindling, Bowcraft, Handicraft, Scrimshaw, Inscription, Binding, Beachcombing, Chartwork, Stargazing, Shipwrighting, Magic, Farming
Give the Mac room and the fight is the screen: the scene paints edge to edge, with your kit docked on one side and your foe on the other, and nothing scrolls. Every other screen size stays exactly as it is.
Tideward is in beta on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro and Apple Watch today, and in open beta on Android through Google Play. A beta for Windows PC on Steam is on its way. Saves and purchases stay with the store you play on.
In beta today Beta on its way
The music engine is in the game and waiting. The score is being written cue by cue, with the effects that sit under it, and until it lands the game stays quiet past the opening.
The whole game already answers by ear. Next: more fixed assumptions turned into settings, and the same care on Mac, TV and Vision Pro that the phone got.
Every icon held up against the best of them and redrawn where it falls short. Defense, Hearth, Wayfaring and Handicraft are the latest to get new ones.
Reports arrive from Discord and the in-app form, and the fixes go back out in the next build.
A serious run from a blank save at a new player's pace, with the pacing tuned to what it turns up rather than to a spreadsheet.
The fifteen translations shipped as careful first passes. Native speakers checking them is the next bar.
Policies, storefront rules, and what each new country asks for before Tideward can open there.
Press, creators, and the long, quiet work of a game with no publisher behind it reaching its players.
The next stretch of water, in order.
1.0 on the App Store, on all six Apple devices. The pre-order is open, so it installs itself that morning.
Pre-order on the App StoreBefore launch, new systems stop going in and everything turns to balance, final art and polish.
It starts the day after launch. No update will charge you to keep playing, and nothing you own stops working.
Leaning all the way in: weekly recurring leaderboards, a deeper achievement ladder and Activities, so there is always a new race to run and a reason to come back.
Not a list of features. The direction every decision gets weighed against.
Then playing at your desk while you work, then hands-on play, in that order. Time away always pays well, and active play stays optional upside.
Every kind of device people actually play on, each one built to feel at home there.
After 1.0, what gets built comes from what players ask for. Every suggestion in the Discord gets a public status, from heard to shipped.
Tideward stays single-player and private by design. A multiplayer game is penciled in for roughly early 2028 as a separate app: an intention, not a promise.
Beta testers suggest features, vote on priorities, and see their ideas go into the game. Get the build, then join the Discord to weigh in.
