Tides Of Tomorrow Reviews
Tides Of Tomorrow is like co-op for the socially anxious, letting players work together, or not, without any of that icky talking business. The story and exploration might not feel shiny and new, but the clever twist on consequences is a successful experiment.
I enjoyed my 15 or so hours with Tides Of Tomorrow, but I won’t be replaying it. It’s a game that you could definitely replay if you vibe with it, because there are plenty of different choices that you - and whoever goes before you - can make, but I feel like I’ve got my fill of the world, and was generally satisfied with the outcome of my narrative. Even if I heard most of it before I got there.
While I don't think Tides of Tomorrow rises to the same narrative highs as Road 96, its primary incentive is a great draw.
With the innovative Social-Link system, there's a real opportunity to create a new sort of way for players to interact, but it hasn't been perfected just yet. Tides of Tomorrow isn't the next big game, but it is a game that will stay with people long after they finish it.
A colourful and creative first person adventure, whose From-style asynchronous multiplayer, branching plot, and faltering stealth sequences are hamstrung by a very low budget.
Tides of Tomorrow is a good story that's alternately helped and hindered by its asynchronous multiplayer. It enables some compelling gameplay options but sometimes takes agency away from the player as relying on other players means you can't really do anything yourself a lot of the time. The story can also contradict itself sometimes due to the nature of the gameplay. It's enjoyable despite this, though it starts to outstay its welcome towards the end.
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I’m looking forward to seeing the story link system further developed in a more refined experience.
Tides of Tomorrow boasts an interesting world, and has great foundational ideas, particularly with its approach to asynchronous multiplayer. However, it feels more inconsequential and disjointed than it should, and as a result doesn't fulfill its potential.
The numerous choices rarely carry the weight they should, and the watered-down writing style ends up excessively muting them. Tides of Tomorrow hints at something enormous beneath the surface, without ever truly bringing it to the surface.
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Tides of Tomorrow is a great adventure game with an excellent story, striking aesthetic, and the potential to connect players worldwide in unique ways. Like our lives, the choices you make will affect those who follow you. With a narrative that speaks to real-world concerns and the consequences of choice, Tides of Tomorrow leaves a lasting impact everyone should experience.
Following up on the success of Road 96, developer DigixArt is making waves once again by shaking up the narrative genre with their latest release, Tides of Tomorrow. With an innovative mechanic to help push the story forward, its asynchronous multiplayer components make the overall experience one they won't have to undertake alone.
Tides of Tomorrow is a story for our times, opening with you awakening in a sea of plastic waste, drowning in bottles, tubs, and other discarded detri...
Tides of Tomorrow is a wonderful game that brings a balance of fantastic branching dialogue and consequences of that dialogue, while also creating some meaningful and solid interactive gameplay that complements those dialogue choices. The game feels very well planned and executed.
Its story-link system is compellingly eerie and smartly iterates on the social aspects of choice-based adventure games, and its resource management shapes player choices in clever ways, but neither can fully escape the leaking ship of flat writing, characters and setting.
Much like Road 96 though, the true joy of Tides of Tomorrow comes from its cast of recurring characters — survivors, pirates, and those of faith who make the world around them feel fully fleshed out. That’s enough to balance out some rather lacklustre stealth bits that get in the way of what’s next.
Tides of Tomorrow takes an engaging story and utilizes an unbelievably dynamic way of telling it that combines community with player choice for an experience like no other.
Tides of Tomorrow set out to overhaul the choice-based games genre with it's Story-Link feature and, while promising, it is a relatively shallow mechanic. Still, the original wrinkle it adds on top of a solid, albeit flawed single-player choice-based game is a welcome addition to the genre.
Tides of Tomorrow does a great job at bringing a unique storytelling method to this genre.