Naiad has beautiful colors.

Naiad is a relaxing and colorful river adventure

HiWarp showed off a cute indie game called Naiad at the Day of the Devs event today.

The game is a relaxing and colorful exploration adventure about floating down a river.

Naiad is a kind of river nymph who Interacts with lots of adorable friends like fish, ducks, frogs, rabbits, snakes, crocodiles, and more. As Naiad, you have to sing to regenerate the flora and discover little secrets.

You have to solve puzzles and get around obstacles and dangers to restore balance to nature. Humans control the river flow, creating their own fake rivers. Water symbolizes life, and it starts to turn darker. You have to sing to bring it back.

The game is coming to the consoles and PC by the end of the year. It’s being made by Elwin, a solo game developer in Spain.

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.