Breakwaters: Crystal Tides

The general mechanics behind the game are a very cool concept, but the controls have and apparently always will be abysmal, The devs need to really spend about a year making the game controls feel impactful. That is the first thing that has continued to turn me away from this game every time i try to pick it up again. Last time I playes this game, the food system needed some work.. i am going to give this another go and edit my review once I get some more time on it.

i have to say this is by far a great builder and explorer, loving it so far a few little glitches and optimisations needed but not bad for a 4 + year old game.... still dev could contact us for feedback and fix it.. might sell more.

Labor of love by small team of indie devs, has charm and detail you won't find in big corpo titles.

This game has the worst performance capabilities of every game I've ever played. After 4 years of being in early access, it still runs like a garbagefire? The developers are worthless. Do not waste your money on this pile of crap.

Stuck in Early Access limbo. This game was released in Early Access back in 2021. It is now 2026, and it is still in the exact same state. The game has massive potential as an open-world survival title, but unfortunately, the developers seem to have gone silent. The last minor update was released in 2025, and it has been over 6 months since we’ve heard any news or updates from the team. Because of this lack of communication and progress, I cannot recommend the game to anyone right now. I will check back on it later, and if the situation improves, I will gladly update my review

So first off this game is really fun and despite the rough patches that I'll get to in a moment I'm still liking it. The water mechanics are super cool and really bring the ocean to life. Some of the islands even seem to look like different places through out the day depending on what the tide is doing. Sailing on a boat and exploring is also a really fun time. The titans are crazy big and super scary. I think they have even optimised it pretty well as my specs aren't crazy and I'm still bale able to play on the highest setting with no lag. With all that said there are a few warning I want to issue: 1) I have had my backpack un-equip and despawn instantly. Still not sure if I accidentally dropped it but it wasn't on the ground so I believe it was a glitch. This lead me to not trust my player inventory and so I started storing my stuff in chests which leads me to my next issue. 2) Don't build anywhere near existing structures. I killed a pirate on Heckinger island and built some work tables and chests in his half hut structure. It never gave me any problems and I travelled to and from the island several times and it was always still there. I had built up a pretty good collection of items until I was ready to fight the first titan. After I beat the titan I travelled back to find that the pirate respawned and all my tables and storage were gone. Again I'm not totally sure it was because of building there but I wouldn't recommend risking it. I'd recommend keeping your most valuable stuff in the boats as that is the only thing that has not lost me items so far. Again despite all this I still really love this game and it's fun enough that I still want to continue after all these setbacks. That said it would truly be a 10/10 for me if the game respected your items a bit more. I'm going to try and actually make a structure on a safe island and store my stuff there and hopefully it won't happen again but I'm afraid that 3 strikes will be it for me (at least for a while). Enjoy the game and I hope none of this happens to you!

bug dans tous les sens niveau mission après être arriver a certain stade impossible de finir une mission car les mob de la mission n'apparaisse pas, obliger de recommencer le jeu, j'ai recommencer le jeu avec mon perso en récupérant toutes mes ressources, et cette fois ci c'est bloquer sur la deuxième île, le bouton E pour placer l'artefact n'apparait pas ! non mais c'est quoi ce jeu wish ! la version a dépassé la 0.9 le jeu est bientot en 1.0 et on est bloquer tout le temps dans les mission c'est de la merde !

Desde el 2022 en desarrollo y no se ha añadido apenas contenido (tiene muy poco contenido el juego actualmente), solo hay pequeños parches de arreglos de bugs. Un desarrollador con grandes expectativas pero sin resultados a la vista.

I love this game but would like to see two improvements: Arachnophobia Mode: the ability to substitute spiders for a different enemy. Better Tutorial System.

Early access with no significant updates for over a year (and no updates at all for over half a year). So it seems abandoned, I'd avoid unless things change.