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.
Manu Games · Est. North Carolina 
Tideward
An Idle Almanac
An almanac of a small coastal world you tend — even while you sleep.
Direct TestFlight invite ◆ iPhone · iPad · Mac · Apple TV · Vision Pro · Apple Watch
What it is
Built for the long haul.
A peaceful idle adventure designed around respect — for your time, your privacy, and your devices.
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Seamless Sync
CloudKit powered. Your progress syncs privately across every Apple device you own — no accounts, no servers of mine.
III.
Privacy First
No tracking, no ads, no third-party libraries. Your save lives in your iCloud — end-to-end encrypted by Apple.
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.
Attack
LV. 1 / 99
Strength
LV. 1 / 99
Defense
LV. 1 / 99
Vitality
LV. 1 / 99
Ranged
LV. 1 / 99
Magic
LV. 1 / 99
Vigil
LV. 1 / 99
Quarry
LV. 1 / 99
Woodcutting
LV. 1 / 99
Fishing
LV. 1 / 99
Mining
LV. 1 / 99
Farming
LV. 1 / 99
Pilfering
LV. 1 / 99
Kindling
LV. 1 / 99
Cooking
LV. 1 / 99
Forging
LV. 1 / 99
Handicraft
LV. 1 / 99
Bowcraft
LV. 1 / 99
Inscription
LV. 1 / 99
Apothecary
LV. 1 / 99
Wayfaring
LV. 1 / 99
Stargazing
LV. 1 / 99
Binding
LV. 1 / 99
The Tavern
Join the growing community.
Alpha testers are already shaping the future of Tideward. Come help build something special.
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 Manu Idle brings real RPG character builds and meaningful skill choices to the idle genre on iPhone and iPad.
CommunityHow Alpha Testers Are Shaping Manu Idle
Lessons from running a Discord-based alpha test for an indie idle RPG. How community feedback changed core mechanics and why open development works.
SwiftUIBuilding an Idle RPG with SwiftUI and CloudKit
Why build a mobile game with SwiftUI instead of Unity? How CloudKit replaces a custom backend. The tradeoffs of going native Apple for an idle RPG.
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.