Tideborn Online
You wake up nameless on a dead-tide shore with nothing but a Tideglass Shard, and the island that found you still needs work. A persistent coastal-fantasy archipelago, shared with everyone else on the island.
CONCEPT ARTA sea of islands, and a place in it
Six peoples, one archipelago
The Thalassari, Brineforged, Tideclaws, Wavehounds, Seaborne and Shellspark share the islands, and anyone can be born anywhere. Pirates, the Salt Companies, are one culture among many.
The story starts on Mirewatch, a starter island of docks, cisterns, mangroves and cliffs, and runs through a campaign, The Nameless Tide, that ends with a home island of your own.
Explore, make, build, fight
- Explore the islands and salvage wrecks
- Gather, craft and trade
- Build on a plot of your own
- Train a skill tree, with no classes: archery, magic, melee and firearms
- Summon your ship when you need it
- Fight tide-beasts in the open with everyone on the island
Made to be fair
- Solo play is first-class. Crews are optional.
- Paying is never required.
- Dying costs no items: you come back at a portal.
- 100+ players share each island.
Built to run as a real online game
- Dedicated master and zone servers, with accounts
- Unity 6 with HDRP, networked with Mirror
- Third-person movement with mouse-walk controls
Building Mirewatch
Working today
- Accounts, master server and zone server
- Character creator: all six peoples, body and face sliders, 92 hairstyles
- Inventory and character select
- 21 islanders who go about their day, and the first two quests: The Dead Tide and The Island’s First Debt
Mirewatch
The starter island, about 3.6 by 2.4 km, built from a real heightmap. Lowdock, Cistern Reach, Blue Post, Green Throat and High Spit are dressed; the Strand, Salt Under and the Listening Crack are next.
Then the rest of the island’s quest line.
First playable
- One island zone with login and logout in place
- Skills, a ship, crafting and plots
- 100+ players and one public tide-beast
The look of Mirewatch
Grounded, overcast coastal light: wet timber, slate and ledger ink. These are concept plates, not in-game screenshots.
