Venice: Tides To Come

Description

Venice: Tides To Come is a first-person and VR exploration game set in a haunting, climate-ravaged future of Venice, where rising waters have submerged much of the once-thriving city. Experience the quiet decay of its flooded streets, diving through sunken buildings to uncover forgotten stories, graffiti, and propaganda that reveal the fate of its former inhabitants. Created between 2019 and 2020 by students from Saxion University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, the game highlights the urgency of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal #13: Climate Action. Designed for immersive play—especially with the Valve Index—it blends environmental storytelling with atmospheric exploration. The experience is complemented by a prequel webcomic, expanding the narrative world. Featuring contributions from a multidisciplinary team of developers, artists, and writers, Venice: Tides To Come delivers a reflective journey through loss, memory, and the consequences of environmental neglect.