Holy cow it’s been a month since the Red Tides campaign ended! We are missing all of the constant updates and drama of the campaign but excited about getting the game to everyone!

Fresh off the heels of the campaign we were in Indianapolis for Gen Con. We ran events daily and they all sold out! We underestimated demand and I apologize to all of you who wanted to sign up but found no spots available. We’ll open up many more spots next time! It was amazing to talk to backers who came to find us. We also sold many copies for folks who missed the campaign. I can’t reiterate enough how much the campaign has meant for Red Tides and for us. You enabled us to put in this extra time and polish. 

We’re still on track for Q1 2026. We’re hard at work, putting all the little polish on the various pieces across the campaign. The most critical is the dice, given the long lead times. 

I’m happy to announce that we’re going to be able to put the Azteca on ALL of the Fortune Dice. This means that you won’t have to buy additional separate Azteca Fortune Dice if you got the Seas of Sacrifice expansion -  the dice in the core game will work for them too! I’ll be honest, we considered committing to the next 3 factions in order to fill out the other blank sides but we want to see how the game develops before locking in the NEXT 3 EXPANSIONS!

The various stretch goals are taking up most of the design time because we want to make sure they meet our super high level of expectation. I’m VERY excited about the sub-factions. Such tiny little cards doing TONS of lifting!

This doesn’t apply to most of you but, if you’re interested, we have BackerKit’s version of late pledges up - Pre-Orders. Don’t ask me why it’s called that. It works pretty similarly to Late Pledges but it’s actually a full on store. Maybe there is something interesting we can do with it. For now we have a trickle of folks coming through buying the game. This bodes well for the long life we envision for the game!

Pre-Order Link

As a part of our stretch goals, we included a number of wooden tokens to kit out your crew, faction, and status tokens. We had many people ask if they could buy more in order to replace ALL OF THE TOKENS?! Well, thanks to y'all we’ve got the ability to offer Extra Wooden Token Packs, much like our Extra Dice Packs. The Extra Wood Token Pack will be an option in the pledge manager, once we send that out.

We want to wait as long as possible before sending out the pledge manager to reduce the amount of chaos we let in between the closing of the pledge manager and the shipping of the plunder. Keep your eyes peeled for updates via email or Discord!

Speaking of discord, come join us! It is the most active area of Red Tides (and increasingly, one of our other games in the development) of all of the internet. We’d love to have you, and you’re welcome to pepper us with questions or ideas!