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A new Hopeport guard investigates a storm and goblin unrest, explores a fantasy world, fights foes, and trains professions.
Released 06 Nov 2024
Guard Hopeport
Fish and Forage
Mine and Craft
Brighter Shores is an all new adventure from award winning MMORPG designer Andrew Gower. It is an enchanting point-and-click style RPG with hundreds of hours of gameplay, set in a land of magic and mysteries, with a huge number of professions to try, and something new to find around every corner.
Developed by Fen Research Ltd · Published by Fen Research Ltd
You play as a new recruit in Hopeport's town guard. A strange storm and unrest among local goblins draw you into a continuing fantasy story, where you uncover sources of magic and can become a Cryoknight, Guardian, or Hammermage.
Explore areas, follow quests and dialogue, fight fantastical enemies, and train professions including fishing, foraging, cooking, mining, woodcutting, and alchemy. Point-and-click interactions drive activities such as gathering resources and working at crafting stations.
Progress through profession levels and story episodes, each of which adds its own lands, quests, and professions while advancing the central story. Some skills can also progress passively; the game offers free content, with a Premium Pass providing access to released episodes.
Favorable reviews often enjoy Brighter Shores as a calm, incremental game: they like steadily training skills while relaxing or doing other things, and some appreciate passive progression. Players also praise its stylized, cozy presentation and dry humor, with a few highlighting quests and the satisfaction of working through its many professions. These positives sit alongside frequent criticism of the grind and limited social play.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Multiplayer | Brighter Shores is listed with MMO and Online Co-op features, and player reviews describe it as a social RPG/MMO. The provided information indicates online interaction with other players, co-op skilling, trading, optional PvP flags, and a co-op dungeon. Reviews also state that partying, group questing, and helping friends in combat were limited or unavailable at points in Early Access, so multiplayer functionality appears partial and evolving. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No mod support or multiplayer mod functionality is mentioned in the provided information. |
| Controller required | No |
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