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Guide a water spirit downstream, swimming and singing to help wildlife, solve gentle puzzles, and uncover hidden river paths.
Released 10 Dec 2024
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Immerse yourself in a relaxing, minimalist and colorful adventure. Flow with Naiad across a mysterious river and interact with its fauna and flora to discover little secrets. Enjoy a wholesome experience with an original and dreamy visual style.
Developed by HiWarp · Published by HiWarp
You play as Naiad, a water spirit traveling from a river’s source toward the sea. Along the way, you encounter animals, plants, and human settlements as the river’s surroundings change.
Swim, dive, and dash through the water, and sing to interact with the world. Help animals find their way, make plants bloom, move obstacles, solve light puzzles, and search for concealed passages and collectibles.
The journey spans 16 episodes set in places such as forests, caves, lakes, and towns. Exploration can reveal poems, musical sequences, and other secrets; optional discoveries can also open an alternate ending. The story unfolds through the environments and their changing relationship with nature.
Many reviewers praise NAIAD’s distinctive, colorful art and calming music, and enjoy drifting through its environments, helping animals, and finding hidden areas. Some also value its environmental themes and emotional storytelling. Others find the simple activities repetitive over the game’s length, and mention sparse directions or frustrating animal-following interactions.
Flow with Naiad across a mysterious river and interact with its fauna and flora to discover little secrets. Enjoy a wholesome experience with an original visual style.
Learn to swim like a duck, dive like a fish, dash like a frog and meet other adorable friends like butterflies, rabbits, turtles, snakes, and crocodiles. Help them find their way and avoid obstacles.
A journey in 16 episodes that will take you through beautiful and strange places like a spring, a forest, a cave, a lake, an orchard... until you reach the sea.
Developed by a solo dev who has pampered every detail to create a very personal and unique game.
Take a refreshing and serene swim where you can explore a peaceful river at your own pace.
Embark on an emotional journey of growth to reach the sea. Play with friendly and adorable animals and make flowers sprout as you sing.
Beautiful visuals and sound design helps you feel like you're diving underwater and flowing among floating leaves and flowers.
In each zone you will discover new animals and little secrets, with different atmosphere and music as the day progresses.
Join little Naiad on an adventure to protect nature from certain humans who try to take advantage of the river and pollute it.
Will you be able to guide and help the animals find their way?
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 53 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
