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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

28-Jul-2026 - Patch notes

  • Add harvest-only Botanist bounties, so you get to keep some of the items you harvest.
  • Add missing Botanist bounties for chestnuts, leeks and apples.
  • Increase the minimum amount of items required for Botanist bounties to 6, so you are encouraged to cultivate some plants to complete a bounty.
  • Delivering a chameleon plant now awards the album card for that plant.

27-Jul-2026 - Botanist Bounties

Botanist Bounties are now available. Once you are a milestone 1 Botanist, you can start completing Botanist Bounties, including growing Chameleon plants. Talk to Davis SeedFinger on Timberwell Road to get started. Davis runs a plant store and he's received some very specific orders which he'd like you to fetch via his bounty board. Some of the orders are for pre-existing botanist plants, but many can only be fulfilled by growing the all new chameleon plants. ...

7-Jul-2026 - Patch notes

Quality Of Life Improvements

  • Reduce the amount of time it takes to divine an investigation bounty clue.
  • Make 'Do first action' behave better on the investigations bounty board to reduce the number of clicks required to divine an investigation bounty clue.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix error when opening the clue divination section of the Bonewright recipe book.
  • Fix the XP displayed on the view rewards interface for dab, bream, herring, wraddock, sturlet and mackibut.

6-Jul-2026 - Clue Divination

Once you are a milestone1 Bonewright, Scobu the Vague in the Cave of the Future will entrust you with a special skull. This skull can be bound to the Detective investigations bounty board, turning it into a Bonety Board. When presented with an investigation bounty, the Bonety Board has a chance to reveal one clue from that bounty. In each subsequent milestone you can etch a goat horn and bind it to the Bonety Board to increase the chance of revealing a clue. ...

2-Jul-2026 - Patch notes

Balancing Changes

  • Correct the levels of Botanist activities in milestone 1 and above. They were accidentally changed a few weeks ago when the configuration for Chameleon Plants was introduced.
  • Increase the XP and knowledge reward from Buried Supplies bounties.

30-Jun-2026 - Patch notes

Bug Fixes

  • Fix mouse buttons 4 and 5 being non-functional.
  • Fix incomplete chameleon plant care guide accidentally being accessible.
  • Fix inaccessible buried supplies bounty.
  • Fix action menu incorrectly opening on teleport destination buttons.