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As a Tidewalker in a plastic-choked ocean world, explore settlements, manage medicine, and shape stories through choices left by other players.
Released 22 Apr 2026
Follow Player Echoes
Leave Supplies Behind
Sail Plastic Seas
From the creators of Road 96 comes a groundbreaking solo narrative adventure where other players’ choices matter. Follow in your friends’ footsteps, face the consequences of their actions, and decide the fate of a plasticpunk world.
Developed by Digixart · Published by THQ Nordic
In a flooded world threatened by Plastemia, a disease linked to plastic pollution, you play a Tidewalker trying to survive and uncover a way forward. The ocean is dotted with floating settlements and divided among factions with competing ideas about what should be saved.
Explore islands, talk with residents, search for scrap and other resources, and sail between locations. Missions also include activities such as stealth, puzzles, boat races, and naval encounters; supplies and medicine help you endure the journey.
At the start, choose a Story-Link to follow: echoes of that player’s actions can affect NPC reactions, routes, hazards, and available resources. Your own decisions shape your relationships and character traits, can open or close options, and leave effects and supplies for later Tidewalkers. Choices also lead to different outcomes and endings.
In these selected reviews, players often appreciate the unusual Story-Link system, especially seeing another Tidewalker’s choices ripple into their own journey and leaving help or obstacles for whoever follows. The vivid plasticpunk environments, soundtrack, and setting also earn recurring praise, as do the story and boat activities for some players. Others feel the branching is limited, the story or characters do not always land, and the journey’s activities can become repetitive.
In a flooded world struggling to survive, you embark on a single-player mission – yet you’ll never be alone. You’ll constantly feel the presence of other Tidewalkers through the echoes of those that came before you.
The “Online Story-Link” feature allows you to feel the impact of previous players’ choices – and leave your own lasting mark for future players. Players start by selecting the Story-Link of a friend, favorite streamer, DigixArt team member, or stranger to follow on a mission to reconstruct or further deconstruct a world suffering from a disease that is ravaging the ocean planet.
As a Tidewalker, you will explore a strange world that will look, feel, and react differently depending on the Story-Link you choose. As a deadly disease called Plastemia threatens to kill all living things, you must steel yourself to face the numerous challenges of a world on the brink of collapse.
Meet a wide range of characters and opposing factions: ruthless Marauders who control medicine and trade, everyday survivors known as Reclaimers, and the Mystics - a mysterious group who worship the past.
Experience the consequences of other players' decisions while shaping the experience of future Tidewalkers.
Levels, NPCs and narrative choices can be totally different depending on the actions of other Tidewalkers.
Reveal the "echoes" of previous players - ghosts that show Tidewalkers’ actions and choices.
Sail through uncertain waters, gathering resources to improve your chances of survival.
Explore diverse floating isles set amongst unique landscapes.
Select different Story-Links to experience how another Tidewalker's choices can influence your playthrough experience.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 39 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
