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Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.

Breakwaters: Crystal Tides is a survival, building and open world game developed and published by Soaring Pixels Games.
Released on December 09th 2021 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, German, French, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian and Polish.

It has received 983 reviews of which 622 were positive and 361 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.2 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Breakwaters: Crystal Tides into these genres:

Survival Building Open World Sandbox Simulation Early Access Action-Adventure Exploration Replay Value Crafting Sailing Action Character Customization Indie 3D Adventure Combat Singleplayer Base-Building Physics

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: win10 or newer
Processor: 2.8ghz+ 4+ cores
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Geforce 1060 desktop (4 gigs ram) or 1080gpu in a laptop with game on minimum settings
Storage: 4 GB available space
Additional Notes: Win7 is not currently supported due to OS compatability issues

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July 2025

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!

March 2025

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.

Dec. 2024

Beautiful @SoaringPixelsGames, this game is an absolute gem its appealing to the eye, its got a good building system, the enemies are actually difficult to fight if your not prepared, if you go in with just some canon balls expect to get wiped clean out Lol the story is lacking in my opinion but that's probably because i was so caught up in exploring and building....and The water physics.... absolutely mind blowing things you can do with the water in this game its fun to mess around with its even better that you can just create a hole in the water and catch fish that way LOL. i never write reviews but im patiently waiting for a major update on the game, already finished the story and killed the serpent and it was a blast one of the best 13 hours ive played on a game for sure. Again @SoaringPixelsGames what a piece of art you got here BEAUTIFUL!!

Nov. 2024

The devs are working hard to come thorugh on the promises they made on multiplayer. The game has some ground breaking water physics and is a blast to play. I really hope they are able to get multiplayer working seamless because I will beg my friends to get this game and sail together!

Aug. 2024

This game is great. If exploration and sailing around with some Valheim building is enough for you than you are in the right place. But i'm not going to butter this up, it's not quite finished. I've already pretty much done a majority of what there is to do on my own, my next step is probably to enjoy some time with friends on here. DO: Wishlist the game. It's going to be a banger. Expect it to be early access and there for some bugs. Expect to be sailing around a lot and even gliding! Appreciate the insane water physics. The best of any game i've ever played. Understand that updates will be slower than your typical big studio. Don't: Expect a ton of ship options right now. Expect land combat to be riveting and full of skillful dodges. Buy if you don't like games that aren't feature complete. Expect an AAA title. The game is a 7/10 right now but you can see what it will become and it's easily going to hit the 9s or 10/10s. The water physics are nuts, boating with a friend is a blast, progression feels really solid and i am having a really peaceful time with the game.

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Breakwaters: Crystal Tides is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.

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Breakwaters: Crystal Tides received 622 positive votes out of a total of 983 achieving a rating of 6.16.

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Breakwaters: Crystal Tides was developed and published by Soaring Pixels Games.

Breakwaters: Crystal Tides is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Breakwaters: Crystal Tides is not playable on MacOS.

Breakwaters: Crystal Tides is not playable on Linux.

Breakwaters: Crystal Tides offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Breakwaters: Crystal Tides includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

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Breakwaters: Crystal Tides does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

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Breakwaters: Crystal Tides is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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