Tainted Tide

Tainted Tide is a roguelite survival RPG set in 2032, when humanity is on the brink of extinction. Mutating creatures called the Tainted are spreading across land, sea and sky. Soldier Riv Winters is stranded on a battered raft after the Stormfleet Expedition’s mission to stop Whitepulse—a monster linked to the growing disaster—falls apart. With limited supplies, he must survive the open sea and make his way to Whitepulse alone.

Survive at sea

Each day, you decide how to spend your limited action points while managing scarce food and water. Fish for supplies, gather materials, upgrade equipment or invest in resource generators on your raft. Choices carry consequences: an encounter may offer a tempting reward at the risk of an ambush, while a mistake can leave you unprepared for nightfall.

Your raft serves as a workshop, shelter and defense. Scavenge materials from the remains of the old world, craft items and combat abilities, and improve your daily resource supply by upgrading your fishing equipment, water purifier, solar panels, salvage collector and fish net.

Match and dodge

Combat combines tactical match-3 battles with real-time movement. Match colored orbs to generate mana, use abilities, manage your defenses and exploit enemy weaknesses. When creatures attack, dodge their projectiles and patterns in real time, learn their moves and look for openings to strike back.

Prepare for each run

Craft abilities to broaden your combat options and discover artifacts with useful effects. Shape your strategy around buffs, debuffs, shields and damage-over-time effects, and invest in permanent upgrades that strengthen future runs and help you travel further. Adapt your approach to the enemies you encounter and the resources you find.

Encounters on the ocean

Strange signals, unexpected encounters, drifting supplies and dangerous discoveries can alter your journey. Each event gives you a choice: risk a potentially valuable reward or turn away. Traders and remnants of the old world may also offer opportunities.

The mission to Whitepulse

Every victory brings resources and experience, while each defeat teaches you about the threats ahead. Improve your equipment and refine your skills as you work toward facing the horrors between Riv and Whitepulse, which still lives beneath the waves.