Ghosts over the Water: Changing the Tides of Japan's Future

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App ID	2070280
App Type	Game
Developer	Studio Unagi
Publisher	Studio Unagi
Supported Systems	Windows macOS
Technologies	Unity Engine
Last Changenumber	30604867
Last Record Update	15 August 2025 – 06:23:28 UTC ()
Release Date	31 March 2023 – 19:44:21 UTC ()

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12 reviews

In-Game

Ghosts over the Water: Changing the Tides of Japan's Future is an engaging strategy-based, multi-route historical visual novel. It is designed by a team of four undergraduate students associated with University of Texas, Austin's Japan Lab and Epoch Games Initiative.

Additional Information

This game is excluded from Steam Family Sharing because: Free Game

Developer

Studio Unagi

GameManualURL

https://store.steampowered.com/manual/2070280/

ReleaseState

released

Publisher

Studio Unagi

IsFreeApp

Yes

Exclude from family sharing (exfgls)

3 (Free Game)

Store Release Date

31 March 2023 – 19:44:21 UTC ()

osarch

empty string

community_hub_visible

Yes

Primary Genre

RPG (3)

Store Genres

Free to Play (37), Indie (23), RPG (3)

Steam Release Date

31 March 2023 – 19:44:21 UTC ()

Store Asset Modification Time

31 March 2023 – 19:35:16 UTC () (1680291316)

library_assets

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library_hero	en
library_logo	en
logo_position ↴
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height_pct	77.73605627949777

osextended

macos64,macosapplesilicon,macosnotarized

Is free on the store?

Yes

review_score

review_percentage

Detected Technologies (?)

Unity Engine, UnityBurst SDK, cURL SDK

First seen on SteamDB

26 June 2022 – 01:54:27 UTC (), in changelist #15238958

Supported Languages

1 Languages	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	Yes	Yes	Yes

Assets

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LinuxClientIcon

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small_capsule

english

capsule_231x87.jpg

header_image

english

header.jpg

library_assets_full

library_capsule ↴
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image2x/english	library_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero ↴
image/english	library_hero.jpg
library_logo ↴
image/english	logo.png
logo_position/pinned_position	BottomLeft
logo_position/width_pct	35.56946691579441
logo_position/height_pct	77.73605627949777

Assets

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small_capsule	capsule_231x87.jpg
header	header.jpg
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hero_capsule	hero_capsule.jpg
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library_capsule_2x	library_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero	library_hero.jpg
community_icon	8293bb9582878d2e0a919cab95f662a41693e3a1.jpg
page_background_path	app/2070280
raw_page_background	page_bg_raw.jpg
timestamp	31 March 2023 – 19:44:22 UTC

Trailers

256934396 ↴
trailer_name	GotW Trailer
trailer_category	0
trailer_480p/video/webm	256934396/movie480_vp9.webm
trailer_480p/video/mp4	256934396/movie480.mp4
trailer_max/video/webm	256934396/movie_max_vp9.webm
trailer_max/video/mp4	256934396/movie_max.mp4
microtrailer/video/webm	2070280/545826/8ae715518a51d4dc4588e30f58274f8911ce2767/1751071437/microtrailer.webm
microtrailer/video/mp4	2070280/545826/8ae715518a51d4dc4588e30f58274f8911ce2767/1751071437/microtrailer.mp4
screenshot_medium	256934396/movie.293x165.jpg
screenshot_full	256934396/movie_full.jpg
trailer_base_id	545826
all_ages	true
is_highlight	true
timestamp	1679067052

Launch Options

0. Ghosts over the Water

Executable	`GotW 1.0 Windows (x64)\Ghosts over the Water.exe`
Arguments	`-fullscreen`
Launch Type	Launch (Default)
Description	`Ghosts over the Water`
Operating System	windows

1. Ghosts over the Water

Executable	`GotW Beta 1.3 Mac.app`
Arguments	`-fullscreen`
Launch Type	Launch (Default)
Description	`Ghosts over the Water`
Operating System	macos

Configuration

Key	Value
installdir	Ghosts over the Water
uselaunchcommandline	1

Ghosts over the Water: Changing the Tides of Japan's Future

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