High Tide

by PocketStorys

3.4 (4 votes)

HTML Abandoned v0.1.0

Game Details

Version: v0.1.0
Developer: PocketStorys
Engine: HTML
Status: Abandoned
OS
Language: English
Censored: No
Updated: 4 October 2026

About

Two couples get stuck on a drifting boat with no way back to shore, and instead of rationing sanity, they ration each other. When the tension gets to be too much, they draw tickets from the Bowl of Fate to decide who does what to whom.

Every round is a new draw, and every draw bends the four relationships on board a little further out of shape. Dares escalate into confessions, confessions escalate into whatever comes next, and the tide keeps rising while you wait for a rescue that isn't the point of the game.

You play as one of the four, watching the ticket system reshuffle loyalties round by round while also keeping the boat itself alive: fishing, catching rain, building a still, so nobody actually dies of thirst before the story gets anywhere. A character sheet tracks the traits and stats you pick up along the way, and there's a working drink mechanic if someone on board decides sobriety isn't helping.

Changelog

v0.1.0

Exclusivity: you can ask your partner to stay yours alone, and the game respects it. The pact can be broken in three NTR ways.
Playstyles: open relationships, harem and four new contracts. The harem is now achievable.
Threesomes: the first scene with three people.
The villa: spend nights ashore on the castaways' island, with new locations.
Nerea: a new girl who only exists on the island.
More variety: far fewer repeated clips, and Mara and Noor each have their own voice.
Fixes: full text review and many bug fixes.

v0.0.4

The day exists now: seven posts, two places each, and you hand out the work
Fishing, rain catcher, still, repairs, galley, lookout, bunk
Who works beside whom is the point. The card tells you the cost before you confirm
Rigs stopped being free money: manned they yield double and break half as often
Repairs cost a day of somebody's work, not scrap
Leave two who want each other alone in the galley and you find out at dawn
The evening is five tickets, then you choose who you turn in with
Drink no longer wears off between rounds. A night only goes one way
Voyage contracts: Rescue, Safe Harbour, High Tide, The Rival, All of It
Adrift is still there and still the default. Nobody loses the sandbox
Losing takes four days of the same state, and you are warned on the first
Silas is the rival. He works at her every fourth round and says so in the log
Three counters: stay close, keep her attention, or post him across the boat
Three at once is possible now: your partner and two more who agreed to it
Nobody gets left behind. Your primary stays your primary
They have to be talked into it. Openness is not enough on its own — trust is the other half
Pregnancy stopped being a coin flip: a 28-day cycle each, offset, 2% to 65%
She tells you where she is in it if she trusts you. Hunger and thirst suppress it
The game stopped changing your partner without asking. It asks days ahead and you can refuse
End it with her, on your terms, whenever you want
Clear the Air: the first way down from a grudge that is not just waiting
Sway does three new things: seed doubt, send someone below, pour them another
Sway works on the men. It always should have
Resentment stopped spiralling: peak 37 down to 12, over 900 measured voyages
Two men on deck no longer kill the round with m/m off: 15 dead rounds a voyage down to 0
Nobody sits out 52 rounds any more. Worst run is 4
"Clear their head" was infinite. It is not
Loading a save shows the day you loaded, not "voyage just begun"
The dead stopped joining in: not a third, not a witness, not still warming up
Six new achievements: Thirty Days, Every Bunk Full, High Tide, He Went Home

v0.0.3

Leysa: a woman on a raft, no memory, no name
From day 18, castaways or not. The raft never comes back
Somebody has to go in after her: you, the strongest, or draw lots
Three days aboard before she's in the bowl
Five things you learn by watching her. She knows none of them
Silas and Vera say no to her. Once. No explanation
Four new social actions: Confide, Share Ration, Night Watch, Dare
Vera finished: drink, dance, exhibition, kisses, fights
Leysa brings 19 clips, sex takes rotate
Fondle has footage at last
Vera 19 → 76 lines, Silas 16 → 40, Leysa 78 from nothing
Narration stops naming the wrong person (73% of scenes)
NPCs stopped eating your rations: five days back
No more acting with yourself
Interface no longer breaks at zoom
Cheats tab rebuilt: shelf by character, ten cheats, four new
Updating can't serve you stale code any more
New achievement: "Somebody Went In"

v0.0.2

No more dying of thirst on day 12: fishing rig, rain catcher and still, built and repaired with salvage
Play as any of the four
Content filters: m/m, f/f, pregnancy, death
New prologue written from your character
Character sheet: traits found by playing, all nine stats explained
Alcohol that does something: drunkenness, "pour a drink", hangovers
Couples stop breaking on round 3 (first swap: round ~4 → 72)
The bowl stops playing favourites no more ten rounds off-screen
You see who's watching before you choose
Arena 48% wider, crew panel folds away
Three softlocks fixed, dead characters gone from scenes, clips star whoever acts
69% smaller download: 151 MB → 47 MB
Version bumped to 0.0.2