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coalescent || tidal rapture

A hypnagogic 3D swimming/entanglement adventure game about harmonizing and want. Dive into a world of merpeople who are transforming and discovering casual relationships through the eyes of a floater who's just been dumped and refuses to evolve. Told in 3 chapters.

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Hatim Benhsain, Hanwen Xu
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Games for my Computer
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About the Game

In the ocean depths, a society of merpeople begins to undergo evolution and discovers casual relationships. After a painful breakup, the solitary protagonist undergoes a journey of self-discovery and self-denial as they experiment with intimacy, experience physical bodily changes, and try to decide whether or not they want to move to the surface.

coalescent || tidal rapture is a hypnagogic 3D swimming/entanglement adventure 3rd-person computer game. It features:

  • Two primary gameplay modes – swimming and entanglement.

  • A reverse coming-of-age story about a swimmer unlearning normalcy in order to embrace (or not) the new and primal told in three chapters.

  • Three surreal cave-based collaged underwater worlds depicted in low-poly 3D and 2D pixel art character and object sprites.

  • Three sexy, mysterious and colorful partners who aquaint the protagonist with a different sort of entanglement.

  • A retro swimming push-and-pull swimming style inspired by the likes of Super Mario 64, Ecco the Dolphin, and b.l.u.e. Legend of Water.

  • A dynamic atmospheric electronic soundtrack with interactive musical plants and fish.

  • A five-note singing system with pitch modulation.

  • Sing and harmonize with a quirky cast of merpeople characters to establish a telepathic bond and talk about life underwater and what it must be like on the surface.

  • At the end of every season, every merpeople migrates together to the next world.

  • Four phases: foreplay, main act, climax, and aftercare.

  • Control a long and sinuous organ coming out of the characters' back and thrust, entangle, and tie knots with your partner's.

  • Explore different touch-based communication styles as the merpeople cuddle and discuss their newfound intimacy.

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