Tidecaller

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   Three rules, no exceptions

   Water spreads, water settles, water carries. Every board is solvable from those alone.

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   No timers, no lives

   A board waits for you. Progress is never gated behind an energy meter.

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   Two recorded solutions

   The game stores your solution and the minimal one, so you can come back and beat yourself.

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   Colour-independent board reading

   Terrain is distinguished by pattern and shape as well as colour.

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   Patch notes / 30 Jun 2026Tidecaller chapter seven: ice, and what it does to a solved boardIce changes state across turns, which breaks a lot of assumptions players built over six chapters. That was the point.
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   Studio / 12 Mar 2026We rebuilt player support around one queueFour games, four inboxes and a 40-hour first-response time. Here is what we changed and what the numbers look like now.