Of Peaks and Tides, a Survival Sandbox Game Inspired by Eastern Mythology, Introduced with Debut Trailer

The past fewer years person featured a watercourse of visually awesome titles from Chinese developers coming astatine a regular clip. That inclination continues with Of Peaks and Tides, an open-world endurance sandbox crippled revealed with a debut trailer Thursday by developer CyancookGames.

Inspired by Eastern mythology, Of Peaks and Tides takes spot successful Everland, a satellite the gods abandoned aft a agelong celestial war. The once-thriving civilizations built by mankind’s tribes person been reduced to ashes aft 1,000 years of conflict, and the Ascent — a operation that erstwhile connected the realms of humans and gods — lies crumbling astatine the bosom of the world.

After the gods departed, the forces of quality they erstwhile governed went retired of control, starring to earthy disasters that prevented civilization from rebuilding. Divine remnants and unsocial beasts created by the gods present roam the land, posing deadly threats to everyone unlucky capable to travel crossed them.

So, needless to say, this is simply a unsafe and magical world, filled with remnants of humanity’s mislaid glory. You’ll embark connected a travel — either solo oregon with friends — to uncover these remnants, research the immense unfastened world, and assistance rebuild the erstwhile mighty quality tribes.

That travel volition instrumentality you done respective biomes, each with their ain unsocial challenges. Lushland is plagued by changeless floods, the Gobi Desert is location to Fire Ravens that whip soil dunes into fiery storms, and Mount Nyenchen is beset by endless blizzards.

To assistance past these harsh conditions, you’ll request to physique yourself a base. You tin take immoderate determination you want, and you’ll physique from scratch utilizing wood and different materials you gather. You tin physique your basal connected the crushed oregon successful the mountains to usage the situation to your vantage … oregon you tin emergence supra that situation and physique connected the backmost of 1 of Everland’s elephantine beasts.

Many of the world’s beasts tin beryllium tamed, from the adorable Owler to the monolithic Si (pictured below), and each requires a antithetic strategy. Some similar offerings, portion others volition lone respect shows of strength. The benefits of taming each beast beryllium connected its size. Some tin beryllium utilized arsenic mounts (including flying mounts), but if you successfully tame a large capable beast, you tin physique your basal connected apical of it — and boom, present you person a mobile basal that tin question with you arsenic you explore.

While each of the environments has its ain earthy disasters, they each person dynamic upwind systems that volition alteration arsenic you explore. You’ll woody with rain, snow, fog, and definite terrain types volition get peculiar types of weather. But you’ll find the upwind tin origin unsocial and unexpected interactions.

For example, if you’re wearing the Lotus Suit (a portion of instrumentality you tin craft), it volition bloom erstwhile it encounters rainfall and you’ll abruptly beryllium covered successful flowers. And you tin usage hazards similar floods and sandstorms to your advantage, luring beasts into them to weaken them.

And arsenic you astir apt noticed from the screenshots passim this nonfiction (you tin spot much successful the slideshow below), Of Peaks and Tides’ visuals are eye-catching, built successful Unreal Engine 5 but maintaining a chiseled individuality acknowledgment to its Eastern mythology inspirations. The verdant Lushland looks similar thing pulled from a fairy tale, portion snowcapped Mount Nyenchen is treacherous and threatening.

The archetypal trailer and batch of images lone springiness america a little glimpse of the world, with much reveals and accusation to travel successful the future. Of Peaks and Tides is scheduled for merchandise connected PC via Steam successful 2026, and it’s disposable to wishlist now. For much accusation and to enactment up to day connected the latest news, you tin cheque retired the authoritative website, Steam page, and Twitter account.