Tides of Succession

Editorial Has potential

Tides of Succession is remembered fondly by most who played it: reviewers consistently praise the writing, the world-building, the elf love interest Glade, and the developer's evident artistic talent. As a creative work it showed genuine promise and landed well for its audience. The elephant in the room, however, is the developer's track record — they abandoned this game, then abandoned a follow-up college project, then launched yet another pirate-themed game that also stalled, burning through community goodwill at every step. The game itself has no real ending and no prospect of one. The reviews are almost entirely a post-mortem on the developer's decisions rather than a verdict on the game's content, which makes a clean quality read difficult. What is clear is that the community feels the foundation here — art, characters, story — was strong enough to deserve better. The build that exists is playable but represents an abandoned, unfinished work with no foreseeable continuation, so anyone picking it up should go in knowing they are playing a fragment.