Tidal Therapy
Released Jan 2024
Tidal Therapy is a travel novel game for tired adults. A tired office worker heads to the sea. The setting is a quiet and beautiful sea town with a seaside park, warehouse district, and tower condominiums.
94% positive · 135 reviews
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
Tidal Therapy is a self-contained visual novel ("travel novel game") that launched on January 30, 2024 as a complete, single-storyline experience. The store description presents it as a finished narrative product with no mention of additional content, expansions, or ongoing development plans. Since launch, the developer has posted only two updates: a bug fix on February 5, 2024 addressing a text display issue, and a Chinese language localization patch on October 31, 2024. Neither post hints at upcoming content — they are purely maintenance and accessibility improvements. There are no DLC listings, no roadmaps, no announcements of future content, and no developer statements indicating plans to expand the game. This game launched as a finished product and has received only routine post-launch maintenance.
Evidence
Store description presents Tidal Therapy as a single-storyline narrative game with a defined beginning and end — no mention of additional content, DLC, or ongoing updates
Developer added Simplified and Traditional Chinese language support — a localization patch with no indication of upcoming content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
veryOK
Achievements
5
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
To a place that is real but not real. A story for you who have lost your place.
Tidal Therapy is a travel novel game for tired adults.
It is a game in which you read a single storyline set in a seaside town with a seaside park, a warehouse district, and tower condominiums.
One uneventful afternoon, an office worker is taking a break in the park when she suddenly reaches her limit.
Instead of going straight back to work, she boards a train headed for the beach.
She arrives at a quiet and beautiful ocean town with a seaside park, a warehouse district, and tower condominiums.
It is here that she meets others of her kind who have also escaped from the real world.
She is told that each one of them has their own favorite place in this seaside town.
Their favorite place is a place to escape from the painful reality and to get the courage to face it again.
"What is your favorite place?" When she is asked this question, she begins to walk around the city of the sea to find her own place.
She crosses the seaside park, passes through the warehouse district, and looks up at the tower mansions.
While she is doing so, the city of the sea gradually fades from the western sun to dusk, and then to night.
Will she really be able to find her place?
--But wait a minute.
Is "place" really the only thing that can give us courage?
Summary
Tidal Therapy is a travel novel game for tired adults.
It is a game in which you read a single storyline set in a seaside town with a seaside park, a warehouse district, and tower condominiums.
Story
One uneventful afternoon, an office worker is taking a break in the park when she suddenly reaches her limit.
Instead of going straight back to work, she boards a train headed for the beach.
She arrives at a quiet and beautiful ocean town with a seaside park, a warehouse district, and tower condominiums.
It is here that she meets others of her kind who have also escaped from the real world.
She is told that each one of them has their own favorite place in this seaside town.
Their favorite place is a place to escape from the painful reality and to get the courage to face it again.
"What is your favorite place?" When she is asked this question, she begins to walk around the city of the sea to find her own place.
She crosses the seaside park, passes through the warehouse district, and looks up at the tower mansions.
While she is doing so, the city of the sea gradually fades from the western sun to dusk, and then to night.
Will she really be able to find her place?
--But wait a minute.
Is "place" really the only thing that can give us courage?
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 20, 2026
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