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Brighter Shores

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Game details

  • Description Explore a handcrafted coastal realm, master dozens of professions (fishing, crafting, mining), and progress through episodic story content that rewards discovery, crafting, and long-term progression across hundreds of hours.
  • Genre MMORPG, RPG, Point & Click, Relaxing, Exploration
  • Developer Fen Research Ltd
  • Publisher Fen Research Ltd
  • Release Date Nov 6, 2024
  • Free to Play Yes

Latest Updates

18-May-2026 - Patch notes

Quality of life improvements

  • Make rubblebugs clear your existing action queue when you choose the 'Catch' action. Bug fixes
  • Make deathstone bounties progress when you mine deathstone.
  • Fix blaze mining bounties to suppress the action boost for only the blaze mining location, instead of all locations of the matching ore/stone.
  • Do not offer duraben blaze mining bounties until you have unlocked duraben.

18-May-2026 - Miner Bounties

Babble has a lot to say about miner bounties, unless you remember to ask him for the short version. In his defense, there is a lot to say, but perhaps not quite as much as he would like. Miner bounties are unlocked by reaching milestone 1 Miner, and then talking to Babble in Goblin Well. You can collect miner bounties from the miner bounty boards, which are located throughout the Mine of Mantuban. All these miner bounty boards carry the same bounties. There are three kinds of miner bounties: ...

12-May-2026 - Patch notes

Quality of life improvements

  • Make enchantment potion reagents more likely to appear at the top of a stack of items on the ground.

Bug fixes

  • Fix potion boost cooldown being reset on logout.
  • Fix to pufferfish being chopped into pufferfish sashimi.
  • Fix error when cooperative fishing one of the cod spots at Starfish Point.

11-May-2026 - Apothecary Upgrades

Blacksmiths can now forge upgrades for the standard potion station. The first upgrade you install will add an action boost button to the standard potion station. Just like profession equipment, activating this action boost will give you double rewards (i.e. double XP, double knowledge and 2 potions). Subsequent upgrades will reduce the cooldown of the action boost. ...

7-May-2026 - Patch notes

General bug fixes

  • Fix 'Unloaded mesh found' error when brewing rams horns.
  • Fix combat level up interface not temporarily muting the music as intended.
  • Fix Lobster Spot and Oyster Spot info cards.

Fractured Reality bug fixes

  • Fix Angry Squidbeast card to say 'Attacks with Impact' instead of 'Attacks with Cryonae'.
  • Fix Angry Squidbeast to have correct defeated animation.
  • Add missing padlocks to locked rooms during the quest. ...

6-May-2026 - Fractured Reality Quest

Grrrayam the kobold would like your help finding his pet metaliths. He last saw them hurtling into the deepest part of the Mine of Mantuban during an ill-advised game of minecart racing. All you need to do is track them down (pun intended). If only things were ever that simple... To start Fractured Reality, you will first need to complete the Mantuban's Legacy quest, and then speak with Grrrayam in the Truck Cave. The lead developers for the Fractured Reality quest were Paul and Ian. ...