Tides of Treasure

Editorial Don't bother

Tides of Treasure is abandoned — the developer has deleted their Patreon, Discord, and Steam page while remaining active only on F95Zone, a classic pattern signaling complete project death. This follows the developer's earlier abandonment of Tides of Succession, a game that had built genuine community affection, to pursue this spiritual successor in the same universe. Community consensus is unforgiving: the dev made textbook catastrophic mistakes (abandoning an established project too early, attempting full-time income before sustainable growth, seeking quick money over long-term trust-building), ignored years of documented AVN developer cautionary tales, and doubled down on the same errors rather than returning to repair trust with ToS. While players acknowledge the developer has talent and decent artistic vision, the succession of poor decisions—particularly launching a new game in the abandoned universe while claiming to do something different—has destroyed credibility beyond recovery under this identity. Speculation centers on whether they will resurface under a new alias, though their reliance on the same character models and Tides universe would make that gambit easily detected and likely fruitless.