Chinese developer CyancookGames has announced Of Peaks and Tides, an open-world survival crafting game built in Unreal Engine 5 and coming to PC via Steam. A release date was not announced. It will be playable for the first time at Gamescom 2025, which will run from August 20 to 24 in Cologne, Germany.
Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:
About
The ancient spark has not yet faded. Whispers echo through the mountains and seas, stirring memories long buried in the earth. Of Peaks and Tides is an open-world crafting survival game developed by CyancookGames, weaving Eastern mythology into a vast, living world. Powered by an intuitive physics system, the world responds to your every touch. Gather your friends, and shape your own legend in a land where creation knows no bounds.
Key Features
- Touch Everything, Change Everything – Everything reacts. Everything can be a resource. Emergent gameplay lets your choices spark unexpected consequences. From chaos come opportunities. Shifting seasons, unpredictable weather, and calamities demand smart, responsive choices. Build wisely, read the skies, and turn disasters into power. The world lives, and you will shape it by your will.
- Fight Your Way – Faced with a powerful enemy, will you charge head-on with sheer skills? Or leverage the environment to strike unexpectedly? Will you set fire, flood the battlefield, lay traps, or stir their hatred to turn enemies against each other in chaos? There is no “correct answer”—only your unique path to victory. Break the rules! Define your legend!
- Craft Without Limits – One journey, countless paths. Your choices shape the world. From surviving the wilds to reviving civilization, from brittle twigs and scattered stones to roaring engines of war—this long-silent land shall once again witness the epic rise of humankind, forged by your hands. With a stone axe in hand, you will fell trees for palisades, stack stones into walls, and raise an unyielding stronghold beneath the shadow of calamity and colossal beasts. What you build is more than shelter from the storm, more than weapons to turn the tide of battle—it is the courage to stand against the old deities, and the hope to reclaim the legacy of the ancients, to restore your people to glory.
- Chill Farming, Serious Survival – Strategic survival—luck won’t save you. Tame wild creatures, build bonds, and turn them into your most loyal partners. Clear land, adapt to the world, and raise life from the forest, soil, and everything in between. Build a home to anchor your survival. Every plant and creature has its own growth patterns and needs. Only by understanding them—and working alongside your beasts—can you truly thrive on this untamed land. Nature won’t help you. Bend it to your will.
- Into the Ancient Unknown – As Nolands, you awaken in the depths of Lushland. Once, under the blessing of the deities, your forebears forged a once-resplendent civilization—an era of wondrous crafts and countless creations. But all was torn asunder in the great War between Heaven and Man, when mountains crumbled and seas were split apart. Now, divine relics lie in ruins, and the glory of the old world has turned to ash. Only the shattered Ascent remains, silently watching over the fading embers of what once was. Wind, thunder, water, and flame—forces once wielded by the deities—have become calamities, scouring the land. Unique beasts now roam unchecked, and natural order has descended into chaos.
Watch the first trailers below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.