AirshipFx, a one-man dev team, is currently working on an interesting first-person adventure game in Unreal Engine 5, called Waking Tides. This game promises to feature a cool AR hybrid gameplay element, and you can find its debut in-engine trailer below.
Now the reason I’ve decided to share this trailer is because this feels like an adventure game from the 90s. In other words, you’ll search the environments for clues or items to solve puzzles.
Ironically enough, I was never a big fan of adventure games. In fact, I hated most of the 90s adventure games. You see, back in the golden days, most of the adventure games had some truly awful puzzles. Seriously, some of them made no sense at all.
Fast forward a couple of decades and we now live in a world where walking simulators have basically replaced the adventure genre. The only team that has stuck to its guns, and needed a Kickstarter campaign in order to fund its latest title, is Cyan.
Anyway, Waking Tides promises to be a small but atmospheric adventure game in Unreal Engine 5. Additionally, as I’ve already said, the game will have an AR hybrid gameplay element.
In the game, players will find some QR codes that they can scan with their smartphones. Players will then be able to cast the AR object in their space and search it for clues.
Lastly, there is currently no ETA on when this game will come out. Still, and given its cool AR idea, I believe it at least deserves some exposure. And I really hope that this will be more of an adventure game than another walking simulator
Enjoy!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
Contact: Email