Gaijin’s seafaring survival MMO Age of Water was intended to rolled into the smooth ocean of early access tomorrow, but it’s choppy waters instead, as the publisher and studio Three Whales have begged players for an extra week.
“Age of Water humbly asks for one more week of waiting,” the devs write on Steam. “The weather these days is stormy, and we had to postpone your Age of Water journey just a little bit. The new planned embarkation date is April 25th, a whole week later than we originally announced. The reason is that our new and improved voice-over needs one good last polish. So we decided to take our time and make sure that you’ll be getting a perfect post-apocalyptic experience. Sorry for that. We hope we did not mess with your weekend plans too much.”
While the announcement doesn’t expressly say so, we’re assuming the delay is for both the PC Steam launch and the console launch, as they were meant to happen simultaneously.
We’ve kept our spyglass aimed at the game since its first announcement back in 2020 and chatted with the devs this past January to get the measure of its MMOness; instances will have a cap of 100 players, and it’s very much not a gankbox like the typical survival sandbox. The team told us the version it’s launching into early access “will be a full-fledged game, not a first act or a trial version.”
