'Dark Tides' Reads Minds to Discover an Old Town's True Fate

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Darkish Tides is an journey sport the place you play as a boardwalk psychic unravelling the demonic mysteries of a seaside Victorian city.

Enjoying as Theodora Inexperienced, you might be tasked with determining if this city is possessed or if everyone seems to be simply kind of sick with some unusual sickness. Proper off the bat, issues are a bit unusual as you abruptly discover out that you could now learn minds. Possibly you weren’t an actual psychic earlier than, however with these new skills, it positive does assist you to play the position. You do have a bit helper, too, within the type of a ferret that talks to you and follows you round as effectively.

Along with your newfound powers, you get to find out the destiny of Cape Fortune and see should you can cease no matter forces there are from haunting the harmless folks that simply wish to reside their lives. To take action, you’ll must learn minds in addition to use objects in the precise locations. Alongside the way in which, 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 bought quite a lot of appeal, particularly for one thing that calls itself a horror sport. Though there's a creepy facet to it, I wouldn’t say the sport itself looks like a horror sport to me.

I bought the possibility 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 could possibly clear up. There are quite a lot of fascinating characters, and the mechanic of with the ability to learn their minds by means of ideas over their heads offers you a bit extra of an perception into what you need to be doing, which does assist!

Darkish Tides is at the moment in improvement, however within the meantime, you may add it to your Steam Wishlist.

About The Writer Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie sport journalist, writing for Metro UK, Large Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and plenty of extra, all with a give attention to smaller indie gems. She covers 1000's of sport jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each sport have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of the entire sport jams occurring on the planet, judges many jams and occasions.