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Strange New Tides

Explore: Wander around Saltbay Cove and develop relationships with kooky and tasty-looking villagers. Earn Money: Fish, Gamble and collect geodes daily in order to earn your keep. Upgrade: Build your sandcastle kingdom from a humble trash-can-sized home.

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Developer
IGA Jams
Publisher
Indie Game Foundry
Release
January 17, 2025
1 year and 197 days ago
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Mostly Positive11 reviews72.7%

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About the Game

Strange New Tides is a quirky social sim game in which you’ll explore multiple areas of a town, collect geodes, gamble at a slot machine and play a fishing mini-game to earn sea glass to pay off your debt and upgrade your humble sandlot home into a true sandcastle. For lovers of games like Animal Crossing, Strange New Tides offers a heartwarming story with two endings, memorable characters to fall in love with, addictive mini-games and personal expression through home building!

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