I.
Offline Progression
Close the app, go live your life, come back to meaningful gains every time. Up to 24 hours of full-speed progress, every cycle. How it works →
Tideward
An Idle Almanac
An almanac of a small coastal world you tend, even while you sleep.
First 1,000 testers ◆ iPhone · iPad · Mac · Apple TV · Vision Pro · Apple Watch ◆ Direct TestFlight invite
What it is
Built for the long haul.
A premium idle RPG designed around respect: for your time, your privacy, and your devices.
II.
Seamless Sync
CloudKit powered. Your progress syncs privately across every Apple device you own, no accounts, no servers of mine. On the Apple Watch →
III.
Privacy First
No tracking, no ads, no third-party libraries. Your save lives in your iCloud, end-to-end encrypted by Apple. The full stance →
IV.
Community Features
Opt-in leaderboards and leagues are on the way, share scores only if you want, fully under your control.
The Almanac
23 trades to keep.
Tend each one to 99, at your pace, in any order. Combat, gathering, artisan, wayfaring: the depth of an MMO, the patience of a lighthouse-keeper. See every trade →
Combat
8
Gathering
5
Artisan
7
Wayfaring
3
How Tideward stacks up against the rest of the genre: games like Melvor Idle · idle games like RuneScape · best idle RPGs for iPhone.
The Tavern
Join the growing community.
Alpha testers are already shaping the future of Tideward. Come help build something special, TestFlight is capped at the first 1,000 testers, and the Discord is where the count gets called out and the conversation happens.
Active
Discord every day
Live
Alpha on TestFlight
One dev
Built with passion
A Manu Games sub-brand
The Assembly Line.
Optimize everything. Automate the rest.
Factory game news, idle game roundups, patch notes, and Tideward dev logs, every Thursday. For the people who play Factorio, Satisfactory, Shapez 2, and Melvor Idle.
From the dev blog
Latest posts.
Notes on building an idle RPG that respects your time. Long-form, irregular, written in first person.
Game Design
Progression systems that respect your brain
Idle games don't have to be mindless. How Tideward brings real RPG character builds and meaningful skill choices to the idle genre on Apple devices.
AlphaTideward 0.86: external TestFlight alpha is live
Tideward's external TestFlight alpha is live across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS. Free to join, with 24-hour offline progression, no ads, and no tracking.
CommunityHow alpha testers are shaping Tideward
Lessons from running a Discord-based alpha for an indie idle RPG: how community feedback changed core mechanics, and why open development works.
About the developer
Built by one dev who plays what he builds.
“I'm building the idle RPG I've always wanted to play, with deep systems, respect for your time, and zero compromise on privacy.”
Tideward is a solo project from North Carolina, written in pure SwiftUI, synced through CloudKit, and shipped without a single third-party SDK. No ads, no tracking, no growth team, just the game and the people who tend it.
, Seth, founder of Manu Games LLC
Get in touch
Contact Manu Games.
Have a question, press inquiry, or just want to say hey? I'd love to hear from you.