Factsheet

Developer:
Three Bees, Inc.
Based in Philadelphia, PA

Release date:
2025

Platforms:
PC / Mac

Website:
http://www.perfect-tides.com

Regular Price:

USD$19.99

Description

A point and click sequel about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Experience the year 2003 through 18-year-old Mara's eyes, collecting and applying not only objects but ideas and experiences, to perfect your craft and find a place in the world.

History

From Comics to Games

Lead developer Meredith Gran cut her teeth in the world of comics. After a successful 10-year run of the acclaimed webcomic Octopus Pie, she began charting new forms of expression through video games.

Successfully funded by Kickstarter backers in 2018, Perfect Tides' development has been a labor of love, slowly growing in ambition and the richness of its world. After a 4-year development timeline, the long-anticipated game was released on 2/22/22, garnering overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam, and ranking in multiple GOTY lists.

With a second chapter in development, the Perfect Tides series is Gran's conduit for explorations of time, love and sexuality, creative drive, and the buried past. Through the media of games, she has been able to reawaken and share these memories with the player. Perfect Tides: Station to Station is a further meditation on the early years of adulthood, of moments both scarring and sublime.

Features

  • Another cinematic tale following a year of Mara's life, complete with seasonal acts, non-linear exploration, and branching outcomes in the point n' click adventure game style.
  • Over 60 all-new environments to view and explore.
  • Streamlined and expanded mechanics. Interact and look at rooms, talk to people, and collect objects with ease.
  • Collect an inventory of names and subjects, which in turn feed Mara's understanding of topics through conversation, experience, and memory. Mara can either grow as a writer, or languish in stale notions and platitudes, affecting the outcome of the story.

Videos

 Vimeo


Images

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Awards & Recognition

  • "Coming Soon" ...we hope!

Selected Articles

  • " Don’t Sleep On Perfect Tides, One Of The Year’s Best Games "
    - Levi Winslow, Kotaku
  • " Octopus Pie comic creator nails teen feelings in her debut game Perfect Tides "
    - Nicole Carpenter, Polygon
  • " Perfect Tides: Aching Teenage Nostalgia "
    - Karl Otty, Maris Crane, Priya Sridhar, SUPERJUMP
  • "REVIEW: Perfect Tides is as devastating and powerful as a perfectly crafted away message"
    - William Hughes, The AV Club
  • "REVIEW: Perfect Tides"
    - John Walker, Buried Treasure
  • "INTERVIEW: Meredith Gran talks ‘Perfect Tides’, time’s inexorable march, and the internet as it was in 2000"
    - Justin Harrison, AIPT Comics
  • "REVIEW: ‘Perfect Tides’ review: a magnificent character study and a damn fun video game"
    - Justin Harrison, AIPT Comics

Perfect Tides: Station to Station Credits

Meredith Gran
Game Designer

Soren Hughes
Background Design

Tony Wilson
Asset Design and Animation

Carly Monardo
Animation

Garrett Hobson
Asset Design and Animation

Daniel Kobylarz
Music


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