Tides of Annihilation Wiki

Overview of Tides of Annihilation, a fantasy action-adventure game set in a shattered modern London steeped in Arthurian legend, covering its premise, combat, cast and August 2026 event schedule.

Release window, platform support, storefront state, language support and the full August 2026 event schedule for Tides of Annihilation, a single-player buy-to-play action-adventure with no announced release date.

Tyronoe the Ferryman is a shape-shifting sorceress and one of the sisters of Avalon, serving as a major boss encounter in Tides of Annihilation.

Aliona Baranova is a British actress, voice actress, and motion capture performance director who voices Mordred in Tides of Annihilation. Her casting is unchanged by the 2026 recast of the Gwendolyn role.

Mordred is a principal antagonist in Tides of Annihilation, a female demi-god fought as the climactic boss of the demo's museum level, in an Egyptian desert arena with the Great Pyramids hanging in the sky behind it.

Jennifer English is the English actress originally cast as Gwendolyn in Tides of Annihilation. She told the studio in June 2026 that she could not continue, the recast was announced on 18 July 2026, and she remains the project's voice-over director.

Eclipse Glow Games is the Chengdu-based Chinese studio developing and publishing Tides of Annihilation, backed by Tencent and staffed by more than 150 veterans of major action and open-world franchises.

How Tides of Annihilation adapts the Knights of the Round Table into its summonable knight system, including the five knights fielded in the August 2026 playtest and the loadout structure they slot into.

Sir Lamorak is a spectral knight in Tides of Annihilation who fights with a spear and red lightning, and whom official material describes as a former opponent of Gwendolyn's now fighting at her side.

Gwendolyn is the playable protagonist of Tides of Annihilation, the lone survivor of a cataclysm in modern-day London. She summons and commands spectral forms of the Knights of the Round Table, and her quest is to find the Holy Grail and save her sister.

Technical details of Tides of Annihilation's Unreal Engine 5 implementation, covering Nanite for virtualized geometry, Lumen for global illumination, path tracing on PC, PSSR on PS5 Pro, DLSS 4.5 Multi Frame Generation, and what the August 2026 hands-on build actually demonstrated.

Niniane is Gwendolyn's shape-shifting companion in Tides of Annihilation, a red-haired young girl who also takes the forms of a bird and of the sword Gwendolyn carries, based on the Lady of the Lake.

How Tides of Annihilation reinterprets Arthurian legend instead of retelling it, from a female Mordred and a shattered Grail to a Round Table knight who fights as a samurai, and how far the game reaches beyond the legend.

The core combat mechanic of Tides of Annihilation: two primary and two secondary spectral knights equipped at once, swapped freely mid-fight, and used for traversal and puzzles outside combat.

Colossal Knights are skyscraper-scale armored titans that roam the ruins of Greater London, described by the developers as climbable, walkable levels and as central to the plot. They were not playable in the August 2026 demo.

Spectral Knights are the Knights of the Round Table that Gwendolyn summons through the gray fog. Covers the summoning system, the primary and secondary slots, and the five knights named in the first playable build.

Palamedes is a fire-affinity Knight of the Round Table in Tides of Annihilation and the one knight confirmed to fill either loadout slot, built around charging and parrying, who breaks walls and moves heavy objects outside combat.

How progression works in Tides of Annihilation: a deliberately light levelling layer, gear and badge slots that shape a build rather than raise numbers, and studio-confirmed difficulty options.

The dimension-bending space of Tides of Annihilation, where architecture folds in on itself and gravity changes direction. Defined in the game's own lore glossary, and held as territory by the sorceresses of Avalon.

Beginner guide to Tides of Annihilation: what kind of game it is, how the knight loadout works, the attack telegraphs and defensive rules, and what the first playable build confirmed.

The shattered modern London that anchors Tides of Annihilation. Familiar landmarks are twisted by the Outworld invasion and overlapped with Mirror Space, and the Great Russell Museum is the London location the first playable demo takes place in.

The mystical Arthurian otherworld of Tides of Annihilation, home ground of the demi-god sisters who invaded London. Reachable through the Mirror Space folds, and still shown only in trailers rather than in playable footage.

Geraint is an optional boss in Tides of Annihilation, fought in the Japanese wing of the Great Russell Museum as a samurai who transforms into an Oni in his second phase.

The scattered fragments of the Holy Grail and the central objective of Tides of Annihilation. The game's own lore notes state that every Knight of the Round Table holds one, and that gathering them lets Gwendolyn manipulate the fog.

The Partnered State is a combat mechanic in Tides of Annihilation where Gwendolyn absorbs a spectral knight to gain enhanced abilities. Demonstrated in pre-release footage rather than in the first playable build.

Combat in Tides of Annihilation: Gwendolyn's spectral knight summons, the two primary and two secondary loadout, colour-coded telegraphs, stagger and executions, and what the first playable build showed.

Bedivere is a scythe-wielding, fire-aligned knight in Tides of Annihilation, a primary summon built for ground offence whose meter powers a heavy finisher against enemies with broken poise.

Gaheris is the wind knight of Tides of Annihilation, a primary summon whose feather stacks and cyclones control the air, who improves Gwendolyn's dodge, and whose arrows create ziplines outside combat.

Kay is the time knight of Tides of Annihilation, a secondary summon whose clock-like field slows enemy attacks and turns moves that come out too fast to react to into readable ones.

The four weapon types in Tides of Annihilation: swords, fists, bows and an unannounced fourth. Only the sword has been demonstrated, so this page separates what developers have reported from what a build has shown.

Gawain is a secondary knight in Tides of Annihilation who scatters enemy formations and then stays on the field drawing enemy attention, giving Gwendolyn room to work a crowded fight.

Anubis is a boss in Tides of Annihilation, fought at the end of the exploration section of the August 2026 hands-on demo, in the Egyptian wing of the Great Russell Museum.

Guan Yu is Gwendolyn's master in Tides of Annihilation and the character who teaches the opening tutorial, a Chinese figure placed in the game's museum setting alongside its Arthurian cast.

The London museum that hosts the whole of the first playable Tides of Annihilation demo. Its Egyptian, Japanese and Chinese wings each drive their own enemies, music and bosses, and the building doubles as a hub with challenge realms.

The first offline playtest of Tides of Annihilation, held in Chengdu in August 2026: a press and creator day on 14 August, public sessions on 15 and 16 August, and the first time the game was playable outside the studio.