Hey everyone! I am happy to announce that our new game, Tides of Tomorrow, arrives at PlayStation 5 on February 24, 2026!
At Digixart, we are all to find fresh and fun ways to tell stories through games, to experiment with both innovative and significant ideas.
Our game, Road 96, was a procedural road trip where you go in several races with different characters, one after the other. After its launch, some team members joked by saying: “We should make Route 96 but with boats!” Boat 96! ”
But then a more serious idea triggered: what if each of these races on Route 96 was really played by different people, and that their choices have impacted – and the world?
This is where the main idea of Tides of Tomorrow comes from: What if we use multiplayer elements to shape the story itself?
Usually, games with asynchronous multiplayer focus on gameplay systems and interactions. We have seen the opportunity to go further: allow players to really influence each other with the other's stories through their decisions.
We have also chosen a brand new framework: a dynamic and post-apocalyptic ocean world. Each of our games tackles a significant subject, and we really wanted to say something about the environmental crisis. This theme and multiplayer mechanisms are closely intertwined … in a way that I do not want to reveal yet!
So how does it all work?
When you start a tide of tomorrow, you have to select a player to “follow”. This player has played the game in front of you and maybe a total foreigner, someone from your list of friends or even a famous streamer.
You start your trip saved from deadly waters, without memory of whom you are or how you got there. In one way or another, you have awakened centuries after a massive flood destroys most of civilization. Now, scattered communities survive through a hard ocean world.
You are infected with plastemia, a disease caused by an old poison – microplastic pollution. If you can't find a remedy soon, you will slowly transform into plastic.
But you will soon discover that there are others like you. Always found in the ocean, without memory of their past. You are all connected. The people of this world call you Tidewalkers.
In Tides of Tomorrow, each player embodies one of these Tidewalkers, a mysterious community of sea nomads. The players will have to question their relationship with each other, challenge their morality and learn more about the link they all share.
You browse the ocean aboard your trusted boat, visiting the location after the location – each visited by the player you follow.
Thanks to our “asynchronous vision” system, you will see echoes of the choices and actions of this player, in the form of “ghosts”. These visions help you to avoid traps, to resolve puzzles, to investigate what has happened before or simply to adapt to the actions of the other player.
Not only that, but the games of the game will remember what the other player has done and they will not hesitate to talk about it. This other player was not in a sort of parallel universe: their actions on the world are concrete and will have tangible consequences on your experience.
For example: if a player stole something precious to an important NPC, this character could now hate all Tidewalkers, forcing you to sneak in instead of being welcomed.
Some levels may change radically depending on what the last player has done. Without spoiling our secret recipe, each level mixes narrative moments made by hand with systemic play elements, which results in a unique experience for each player. This is a real challenge to develop, because we take into account the choices of the previous player, as well as your own choices, to make sure you always feel in control of your adventure.
Each new step in your trip allows you to choose where to go then – and who follow. Are you going to stay with the same person? Try someone new? Or choose according to your own instinct?
There are many reasons to follow one player compared to another. Maybe you like their style of play, whether you want to discover their choices or benefit from the resources they have left.
In the typical manner of Digixart, your friends and you will go through a wild mixture of situations, meet memorable characters and surprising play challenges. You will have to make difficult decisions, while your survival and the future of this world are at stake …
But don't forget – your actions will also affect players who choose to follow You.
So … what kind of inheritance is it?
To discover it for yourself, list the game today and join us on the high seas in 2026, to be among the first players to leave your brand on the world of Tides of Tomorrow!
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