Overview
- The game has reached version 1.0 and is now available to buy on the PlayStation Store for PlayStation 5 as it exits Early Access.
- Amplitude CEO Romain de Waubert de Genlis said players now treat Early Access like the main release, which raises pressure on studios to ship more complete builds early.
- Across about a year in Early Access the team issued dozens of patches that the studio says were driven largely by player complaints rather than by planned experimentation.
- Reviewers and players have praised the game’s worldbuilding and its new tide/tidefall mechanic that opens land, links map regions, and reveals dungeons and resources.
- Reception at launch remains mixed because critics and players report clunky user interface elements and what some call a shortfall in content compared with expectations, a dynamic that may curb future design risk-taking by developers.