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Brighter Shores cover art

Brighter Shores

Fen Research Ltd · 2024-11-06

Steam

AdventureIndieMassively MultiplayerRPGFree To PlayEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Nov 06, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 06, 2024 (Mac)

Brighter Shores is an all new adventure from award winning MMORPG designer Andrew Gower. It is an enchanting point-and-click style RPG with hundreds of hours of gameplay, set in a land of magic and mysteries, with a huge number of professions to try, and something new to find around every corner.

67%
positive of 9.4k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
71/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)
Brighter Shores is an upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Fen Research, released in early access on 6 November 2024 on Steam for Windows and macOS. Brighter Shores was created by Andrew Gower, creator of RuneScape, and shares many gameplay elements with it. Brighter Shores is free-to-play, with a premium pass option but no microtransactions. The game is built on Fen Research's custom Fenforge engine.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 41 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (5,344 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 12,976 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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positiveWeek of 2025-10-08: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-15: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-15: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-22: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-22: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-29: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-29: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-05: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-11-12: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-12: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-11-19: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-19: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-11-26: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-26: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-03: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-03: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-10: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-17: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-17: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-24: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-24: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-31: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-31: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-07: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-07: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-14: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-14: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-01-21: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-21: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-28: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-28: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-04: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-04: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-02-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-11: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-18: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-18: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-04: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-04: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-11: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-11: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-18: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-18: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-08: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-22: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-29: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-06: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-06: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-13: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-20: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-05-27: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-27: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-03: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-10: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-17: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-24: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-08: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-08: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-22: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-29: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-05: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-12: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-19: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-26: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-09-02: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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