A one-person indie game studio in Waynesville, North Carolina.
We build patient, privacy-first games for every Apple device. No ads. No tracking. No third-party SDKs. Just craft.
An unhurried idle RPG built natively on every Apple platform — iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, and Apple Watch. Tend a small coastal world through twenty-three trades, even while you sleep. True 24-hour offline progression. Pure SwiftUI. CloudKit-only sync. Zero third-party SDKs.
The free TestFlight alpha is open today — capped at the first 1,000 testers. Full launch on the U.S. App Store on February 11, 2027.
| Game site | tideward.app |
| Install the free alpha | tideward.app/install |
| About the game | tideward.app/about |
| Discord community | discord.gg/hw6w93astV |
| Dev blog | tideward.app/blog |
| Press kit | tideward.app/press |
A Tuesday + Friday newsletter on the factory + idle games genre. Manu Games' second public-facing project, separate from the dev blog.
- Read past issues: blog.manugames.com
- Website: manugames.com
- About the studio: manugames.com/about
- Trademark: TIDEWARD, USPTO Serial 99800434
- Entity: Manu Games LLC, a North Carolina single-member LLC
- Location: 89 Waynesville Plaza #1028, Waynesville, NC 28786
- X (game): @tidewardgame
- X (studio): @manu_games_llc
- Email: support@manugames.com
The flagship game is pure SwiftUI (no Catalyst, no UIKit unless absolutely necessary), persists with SwiftData, syncs through CloudKit private database (zero first-party servers, zero third-party telemetry). All six Apple platforms share one codebase. Zero SPM, CocoaPods, or Carthage dependencies — Apple frameworks only.
The websites are static Astro sites, hosted on GitHub Pages behind Cloudflare. Same architectural commitments — no analytics SDKs, no tracking, no third-party iframes.
— Built with care by one person.