Darkish Tides is an journey recreation the place you play as a boardwalk psychic unravelling the demonic mysteries of a seaside Victorian city.
Enjoying as Theodora Inexperienced, you’re tasked with determining if this city is possessed or if everyone seems to be simply form of sick with some unusual sickness. Proper off the bat, issues are a bit unusual as you instantly discover out that you could now learn minds. Possibly you weren’t an actual psychic earlier than, however with these new talents, it positive does enable you play the position. You do have slightly helper, too, within the type of a ferret that talks to you and follows you round as effectively.
Together with your newfound powers, you get to find out the destiny of Cape Fortune and see for those who can cease no matter forces there are from haunting the harmless those that simply wish to stay their lives. To take action, you’ll have to learn minds in addition to use objects in the fitting locations. Alongside the best way, I discovered that the sport had an fascinating, barely chaotic really feel that unfold from the puzzles to the story line to the characters themselves. It’s obtained a whole lot of attraction, particularly for one thing that calls itself a horror recreation. Though there’s a creepy facet to it, I wouldn’t say the sport itself appears like a horror recreation to me.
I obtained the prospect to play the demo of Darkish Tides at AdventureX, the place I fairly loved the quirky narrative storyline and the entire unusual puzzles that you would resolve. There are a whole lot of fascinating characters, and the mechanic of with the ability to learn their minds by means of ideas over their heads provides you a bit extra of an perception into what try to be doing, which does assist!
Darkish Tides is at the moment in growth, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.
About The Creator
Jupiter Hadley
Jupiter is a prolific indie recreation journalist, writing for Metro UK, Large Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and plenty of extra, all with a deal with smaller indie gems. She covers hundreds of recreation jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each recreation have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of the entire recreation jams occurring on the planet, judges many jams and occasions.
