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| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Engine | Unreal Engine 5 |
| Developer | Strange Creature Factory Ltd. |
| Publisher | Strange Creature Factory Ltd. |
| Release Date | 2027-03-30 |
| Platforms | PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S |
| Price | $39.99 USD |
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Core Requirements
- desktop_windowsOperating System: Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit required, version 21H2 or newer)
Requires a 64-bit operating system supporting modern DirectX 12 Ultimate runtime architecture, low-level asynchronous compute pipelines, and multi-core CPU task scheduling.
- memoryDirectX: DirectX Version 12 (Feature Level 12_2 / DirectX 12 Ultimate)
Mandatory for Unreal Engine 5's Lumen hardware raytracing, Nanite virtualized geometry pipelines, and variable-rate shading.
- save_altStorage Note: 60 GB available space (NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive Strictly Required)
High-speed NVMe storage is mandatory for streaming high-resolution metal PBR textures, organic parasite flesh shaders, and seamless deck transitions.
settings_applications Optimization Notes:
Upscaling: Native integration of NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 (Super Resolution, Frame Generation, and Ray Reconstruction), AMD FSR 3.1, and Intel XeSS.
Key Settings: Lumen Global Illumination quality, Volumetric Fog/Steam Density, Screen Space Reflections, and Subsurface Scattering have the largest impact on rendering framerates.
Black Tides: Draga Wake: Map Size and Regions
Black Tides: Draga Wake: Post-Launch Content / DLC
Black Tides: Draga Wake: Skills & Upgrades Overview
Black Tides: Draga Wake: Game Editions
Black Tides: Draga Wake: Cross-Platform / Crossplay
Black Tides: Draga Wake: Top 5 Weapons (Subjective/Iconic)
Rank #1
Draga's Metamorphic Bone Scythe, his signature parasitic melee transformation that morphs his right arm into a serrated, flesh-cleaving blade for fluid, high-damage combos and gruesome decapitations.
Ormora Heavy Service Revolver (.455 Caliber), a chunky, top
break six-shot maritime sidearm delivering immense per-shot stopping power against charging abominations.
Dual
Barreled Whaler's Scattergun, a truncated 10-gauge side-by-side shotgun that obliterates flesh at point-blank range and instantly staggers heavily armored cult champions.
Rank #4
Pressurized Chemical Flamethrower, an industrial boiler tool modified to spew burning whale-oil napalm, setting swarms of skittering floor parasites ablaze and igniting volatile methane pockets.
Heavy Pneumatic Whale Harpoon Rifle, a pneumatic long
range weapon firing tethered iron spears that pin mutated horrors directly to bulkheads.
Black Tides: Draga Wake: Specific Game Elements
Explore in-depth equipment, cast, combat mechanics, and world collectibles documented for Black Tides: Draga Wake:
Black Tides: Draga Wake Weapons
A truncated 10-gauge double-barreled scattergun that unleashes an apocalyptic spread of buckshot, turning close-range abominations into shredded viscera.
A high-pressure pneumatic rifle firing barbed iron whaling spears that impale armored cultists and pin them against steel bulkhead walls.
Draga's right arm mutated into a massive, razor-sharp scythe made of calcified bone and chitin, capable of severing limbs and performing devastating execute finishers.
A rugged British-style maritime service revolver packing devastating single-shot kinetic force, perfect for blasting through mutant armor plating at medium range.
An improvised boiler-deck tool that fires pressurized streams of ignited whale oil, torching swarms of skittering parasites and igniting flammable bio-growths.
Black Tides: Draga Wake Vehicles
A reinforced steel-hulled steam launch suspended from the Ormora's davits that Draga and Maeve seek to repair to escape the ice shelf.
A massive 1900s ocean-going industrial steamship trapped in polar pack ice, serving as the labyrinthine, multi-deck setting of the entire game.
Black Tides: Draga Wake Animals / Creatures
Role: Insane whalers who willingly submitted to infection, charging Draga with cleavers, butcher hooks, and mutated fleshy tentacles bursting from their torsos.
Role: The ship's former guard dogs corrupted by abyssal ichor, sprinting rapidly across icy deckplates to drag Draga down into freezing snowdrifts.
Role: Vile subterranean parasites infesting the flooded bilge compartments that crawl along pipes and drop onto Draga to drain his health.
Role: An ancient, sentient marine parasite that infects ship crew members, taking root in human nerve tissue and mutating host limbs into grotesque weapons.
Black Tides: Draga Wake Characters
Master of the Ormora / Cult Patriarch
The mad whaling captain who steered the Ormora into the Arctic ice pack to offer his crew as living sacrifices to slumbering deep-sea gods.
Protagonist / Pirate First Mate
A rugged, cynical smuggler imprisoned aboard the Ormora who harnesses an alien parasitic infection to battle grotesque cultists and escape the frozen ship.
High Priest of the Black Tide
A fanatical priest whose body has been almost entirely replaced by oceanic biomechanical tentacles, leading sacrificial rites in the cargo hold.
Chief Steamship Engineer
The brilliant, resourceful Irish mechanic who barricades herself in the central dynamo station, providing Draga with radio guidance and maintenance access.
workspace_premium Top 3 Characters
Draga, the cynical, gravel
voiced protagonist and pirate
Rank #2
mate whose fierce survival instinct and symbiotic parasitic infection drive his brutal crusade across the ship.
Rank #3
Maeve Callahan, the ship's courageous Irish chief engineer who barricades herself in the central dynamo room and acts as Draga's radio ally, providing technical blueprints and remote boiler venting.
Rank #4
Captain Thaddeus Vance, the fanatical former whaler captain whose obsessive quest for immortality led him to commune with the dark gods of the Arctic abyss, becoming the primary architect of the ship's nightmare.
Black Tides: Draga Wake Missions / Objectives
Objective: Break free from the flooding lower brig cells, mutate your parasitic arm to sever locking chains, and fight your way to the cargo deck.
Objective: Navigate through the searing steam-pipe labyrinth of the engine room, restore pressure to the auxiliary generators, and purge the mutated stoker.
Objective: Ascend to the ice-encrusted observation deck during a violent blizzard to confront Captain Vance and halt the catastrophic awakening ritual.
workspace_premium Top 3 Missions/Objectives
Rank #1
'Escape the Bilge,' the harrowing opening chapter where an infected, disarmed Draga must mutate his parasite for the
Rank #2
time, break free from a flooding jail cell, and scavenge his
Rank #3
weapon while avoiding patrolling butcher zealots.
'Re
Ignite the Port Boilers,' an intense puzzle and combat mission requiring Draga to navigate burning machinery decks, align steam pressure valves, and eliminate a colossal multi-headed mutant blocking the coal conveyors.
Rank #5
'The Leviathan's Call,' the apocalyptic final confrontation atop the ship's storm-lashed observation deck where Draga battles the fully mutated Cult Captain to sever the oceanic ritual and escape the sinking vessel.
Black Tides: Draga Wake Companions / Summons
Ability: A compact steam-driven maintenance bot that Draga can send into tight vents to unlock distant bulkhead doors and retrieve ammo crates.
Ability: Provides real-time navigational intel, alerts Draga to incoming monster ambushes, and triggers environmental steam vent traps.
Ability: Merged with Draga's nervous system, it morphs into lethal weapons, senses nearby enemies through deck vibrations, and speaks in eerie psychic whispers.
Black Tides: Draga Wake Collectibles
Location/Use: Looted from hidden cult reliquaries and slaughtered boss abominations; expended to unlock advanced biological evolutions in the parasite skill tree.
Location/Use: Found inside abandoned officer cabins and navigational charts; reveals the conspiracy behind the ship's deliberate Arctic stranding.
Location/Use: Scavenged from the frozen corpses of senior deck officers; unlocks high-security armory caches and hidden shortcut passageways.
workspace_premium Top 3 Collectibles
Rank #1
are
Mate's Navigational Logbooks, leather
bound diaries and captain's logs scattered throughout the Ormora that unravel the tragic voyage from London, the crew's descent into cannibalism, and the uncovering of the deep sea cult.
Rank #3
are Crystalline Leviathan Pearls, rare abyssal mineral spheres found inside hidden cultist reliquaries used to unlock high-tier mutant evolutions in Draga's parasite skill tree.
Rank #4
are Ship's Brass Master Keys, antique skeleton keys that unlock secure armory lockers, captain's vaults, and hidden shortcuts across the ship's labyrinthine decks.
Black Tides: Draga Wake Armor
Focus/Stats: Armor Rating: 85, Slashing/Piercing Damage Reduction: 40%; a living layer of hardened black chitin that organically grows over Draga's torso when taking heavy damage.
Focus/Stats: Armor Rating: 65, Headshot Lethality Reduction: 75%; a heavy salvage diving helm providing complete head protection against overhead mutant smashes and crushing blows.
Focus/Stats: Armor Rating: 45, Cold/Acid Resistance: +50%; heavy waterproof treated canvas and leather coat offering basic ballistic defense and protection from toxic bilge fluids.
Black Tides: Draga Wake Clothing / Appearance
Options: Heavy wool-lined expedition coat trimmed with wolf fur to insulate against blinding -40 degree polar blizzards on the upper deck.
Options: Torn crimson and black ritual vestments smeared with whale oil and inscribed with cyclopean occult runes.
Options: Rugged, oil-stained dark leather vest worn over a linen sailor shirt with heavy brass buckle utility belts.
Black Tides: Draga Wake: Other Features & Info
- labelMultiplayer ModesBlack Tides: Draga's Wake is strictly focused on delivering a rich, cinematic, and deeply unsettling single-player narrative campaign with zero multiplayer or cooperative modes.This design choice ensures that every sound effect, lighting cue, corridor layout, and claustrophobic encounter is meticulously tuned to maximize individual psychological dread, intimacy, and survival tension without the distraction of networked players.
- labelUser InterfaceThe game adopts a sleek, highly immersive diegetic user interface inspired by classic survival horror.Rather than cluttering the screen with bright UI meters, Draga's biological condition is represented directly on his character model: parasitic tendrils pulse through his neck veins and eyes with increasing intensity as health drops, while his demonic arm changes color based on active mutation modes.When aiming firearms, a subtle mechanical reticle appears, while weapon ammunition count is stamped onto the weapon's physical chamber or displayed via a quick-glance inventory pocket watch.
- labelSound and MusicThe soundscape is designed to evoke visceral, spine-chilling dread.The audio engineering relies on hyper-realistic industrial acoustics: the groaning metal stress of the ship's hull being crushed by pack ice, rhythmic hiss of leaking steam valves, sloshing bilge water, and sickening, organic squelches of tearing flesh and shifting parasite bones.The musical score blends dark ambient droning, screeching cello bowings, and sub-bass rumbles that dynamically surge into frenetic percussion during terrifying boss encounters.
- labelGraphics and VisualsRendered in Unreal Engine 5, Black Tides: Draga's Wake boasts extraordinary visual craftsmanship.Directed by former Rockstar Games character artist Greg Strangis, the creature designs exhibit exquisite sculptural detail, blending maritime decay with biomechanical body horror.Nanite geometry renders millions of individual ship rivets, splintered wooden floorboards, and layered rust flakes, while Lumen dynamic lighting allows flickering kerosene lanterns and glowing parasite veins to cast realistic, bouncing shadows across blood-spattered steel corridors.
- labelAccessibility FeaturesStrange Creature Factory provides comprehensive accessibility features: customizable difficulty settings (including a 'Story Mode' with reduced enemy damage and aim-assist), toggleable weapon recoil and camera shake, motion blur and field-of-view sliders to alleviate motion sickness, fully remappable controls for gamepad and keyboard/mouse, high-contrast visual modes to highlight interactive items, and multi-language subtitles with speaker color differentiation.
- labelStory and SettingBlack Tides: Draga's Wake is set in an eerie, alternate 1900s aboard the Ormora, a colossal commercial whaling and cargo steamship that has become permanently frozen in the desolate pack ice of the Arctic Ocean.Cut off from civilization, the ship's crew and fanatical captain succumbed to the whispers of an ancient, slumbering eldritch leviathan dwelling beneath the polar abyss.The cult has transformed the steamship into a floating house of sacrificial slaughter, conducting grotesque biological rituals that fuse human flesh with marine parasite abominations.The player controls Draga, a cynical smuggler and pirate first mate locked in the vessel's dark brig who is violently infected with an extraterrestrial marine parasite.Rather than losing his mind, Draga forms a volatile symbiotic bond with the organism, wielding terrifying metamorphic limb mutations as he fights his way through the blood-drenched decks to reunite his surviving crewmates and escape the doomed ship.
- labelTop 3 Mounts/CompanionsIn a dark, claustrophobic third-person survival horror game with no ridable mounts or friendly pets, auxiliary symbiotic organisms and autonomous mechanical companion systems serve this role:looks_one Rank #1
Rank #1
Symbiotic Arm Parasite ('The Wyrm'), the sentient alien organism fused with Draga's nervous system that morphs into devastating weapons, senses hidden enemy vibrations through deck floorboards, and talks to Draga in guttural psychic whispers.
looks_two Rank #2Clockwork Boiler Bot, a small steam
driven maintenance automaton that Draga can repair and deploy to crawl through narrow ventilation shafts to retrieve keys and trigger remote door levers.
looks_3 Rank #3Rank #3
Maeve's Radio Link, an overland wireless transceiver that keeps Draga connected with his engineer ally to guide his path through the ship's decaying decks.