Tides of Tomorrow Ties One Player's Choices to Strangers' Stories
Terukazu Yoshida played the PC version of Tides of Tomorrow, the THQ Nordic adventure whose PS5 packaged version releases December 17, 2026.
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Why it matters
The Online Story Link turns a single-player adventure into a shared record: what one player does becomes the conditions a stranger inherits, which is a design bet on consequence rather than on multiplayer.
Key Facts
- THQ Nordic will release the PS5 packaged version of Tides of Tomorrow on December 17, 2026.
- Tides of Tomorrow is an adventure game about a protagonist with a fatal disease in a world destroyed by a massive flood.
- The protagonist searches for a medicine called Ozen that suppresses the disease's progression.
- Characters called Tidewalkers are protagonists controlled by other players.
- Yoshida followed a randomly selected player named Dig, who gave Nahe's medicine to other players instead of using it.
The game follows a protagonist with a fatal disease exploring a flooded world as a Tidewalker, hunting a medicine called Ozen. Its Online Story Link system lets other players' past actions appear as phantoms and shape the world a new player enters.
Yoshida followed a randomly selected player named Dig, who had passed up the medicine Nahe offered and given it to others instead. Yoshida took it, which means players who follow his trail will not find the medicine at that point. The phantoms are not all random either; players can choose whose footsteps to follow, including friends or streamers.
The protagonist wakes in the sea, is rescued by Nahe, and learns the world was destroyed by a massive flood. Other awakened figures are called Tidewalkers, and they are protagonists controlled by other players.
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