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TideFall

The coast has drowned and the tide keeps rising. Mine, fight and craft your way up a flooding world, relight the lighthouses, and choose at every beacon — extract with what you carry, or hold the light and gamble it all for the sea's richest salvage.

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RootWaves
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RootWaves
Release
July 16, 2026
16 days ago
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About the Game

THE TIDE IS THE TIMER. Every stage floods in real time. The water climbs, the air runs out, and the drowned climb with it. Move fast, mine faster.

HOLD THE LIGHT — OR RUN. Reach the lighthouse and you can extract safely... or burn precious lamp oil to hold the beacon while waves of the drowned close in. Survive the hold, and the sea answers with its richest salvage.

  • ⚓ 100-stage campaign across 5 drowned biomes — shallows, kelp reef, sunken town, black trench, and the cathedral where the hymn began

  • 🔱 5 bosses guarding forged weapons: harpoon, grapple hook, deepsilver gaff blade, blast charges

  • 🕯️ Your lantern is your life: fuel burns, darkness empowers the drowned

  • 🎲 12 run-shaping relics, one-of-three after every extraction

  • ⚒️ Forge tiers, crafting, and a salvage economy that persists through death checkpoints

  • 🏅 100 badges, daily challenge runs, full English, Korean & Simplified Chines

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