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Breakwaters: Crystal Tides

Soaring Pixels Games · 2021-12-09

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Dec 09, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.

Breakwaters: Crystal Tides is a 2021 Action, Adventure, Indie, and Simulation game priced at $19.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and Mixed reviews (62% of 1000 reviews).

0
playing now
62%
positive of 1.0k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Displace water with powerful crystals harvested from the world, delve into its depths to collect rare resources, build walls to contain the ocean or block the waves, and help the people rebuild from the constant destruction. Titans, artifacts from a dead civilization beneath the waves, roam the world causing destruction. Survive with what you can harvest from the land, trade with passing fishermen or at ports, and voyage across the world through deadly storms to find new adventures.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 35% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (505 reviews).
  • · Top 15% of 28,039 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 20k–45k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,000 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
31531520212026Week of 2021-12-01: 315 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 190 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1102Dec 2021Nov 2025Dec 2021 — avg 110 · peak 444Jan 2022 — avg 41 · peak 113Feb 2022 — avg 17 · peak 59Mar 2022 — avg 9 · peak 28Apr 2022 — avg 14 · peak 49May 2022 — avg 9 · peak 25Jun 2022 — avg 10 · peak 32Jul 2022 — avg 8 · peak 20Aug 2022 — avg 7 · peak 19Sep 2022 — avg 6 · peak 23Oct 2022 — avg 4 · peak 13Nov 2022 — avg 5 · peak 15Dec 2022 — avg 5 · peak 14Jan 2023 — avg 5 · peak 18Feb 2023 — avg 4 · peak 12Mar 2023 — avg 6 · peak 21Apr 2023 — avg 5 · peak 17May 2023 — avg 6 · peak 21Jun 2023 — avg 5 · peak 21Jul 2023 — avg 8 · peak 25Aug 2023 — avg 4 · peak 18Sep 2023 — avg 4 · peak 11Oct 2023 — avg 4 · peak 15Nov 2023 — avg 3 · peak 13Dec 2023 — avg 6 · peak 17Jan 2024 — avg 3 · peak 13Feb 2024 — avg 4 · peak 12Mar 2024 — avg 2 · peak 16Apr 2024 — avg 2 · peak 14May 2024 — avg 2 · peak 8Jun 2024 — avg 3 · peak 12Jul 2024 — avg 3 · peak 10Aug 2024 — avg 14 · peak 45Sep 2024 — avg 5 · peak 18Oct 2024 — avg 4 · peak 12Nov 2024 — avg 3 · peak 12Jan 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Nov 2025 — avg 2 · peak 9

▼ −1 avg players (−43.2%) vs prior month — Nov 2025

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

17
achievements tracked
13.1%
earned "Learning The Ropes"
0.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportStatsFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, German, French, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian, Polish

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-06-21 (Steam store data)

Player tags

3DIndieActionSailingSandboxBuildingCraftingSurvivalOpen WorldSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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