About Tidewell: Cozy Match-3 Harbor Rebuilding Puzzle
Tidewell is a cozy match-3 puzzle game built around the goal of restoring a storm-battered harbor. Every level asks you to swap sea treasures across a handcrafted grid, setting off matches and chain reactions that slowly bring a ruined waterfront back to life. The game spans 100 handcrafted levels, and the stars earned along the way go toward rebuilding the pier, lighthouse, market, boatyard, and café.
One scene shows a grid filled with blue water droplets, red starfish, green hexagonal gems, and yellow shells. Another shows green seagrass blades rising from a sandy floor against a blue background.
How to Play Tidewell: Swap, Craft, and Restore the Harbor
The core loop is straightforward: swap sea treasures to form matches, then use those matches to craft flares, buoys, gulls, and tide pearls. Combining crafted items triggers large chain reactions. Across the 100 levels, the board obstacles include crates, sand, nets, and message bottles — each needs to be cleared to progress. Stars collected in levels are spent in the harbor to restore its five landmarks.
Harbor Pals
Before entering a level, choose one of four Harbor Pals. Each carries a special power that charges as you play:
- Crab
- Puffin
- Octopus
- Turtle
Controls
- Swipe a tile: Move it to an adjacent position
- Tap one tile, then a neighbour: Swap the two tiles (mouse or touch)
- Tap a power-up: Fire it onto the board
- Swap two power-ups: Combine them
- Tap a booster button, then the board: Activate a booster
- M: Mute audio
- Esc: Open pause menu or close an open panel
- Enter: Play from the harbor
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