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Shallows · Kelp · Twilight · Abyss · Vents. Each with its own atmosphere, palette, and bestiary.
TIDEWANE
A deep-sea idle dungeon crawler. A slow descent into the dark.
§ 01 / watch
The trailer.
90 seconds of gameplay. No marketing voice-over.
§ 02 / what it is
The shape of it.
Four things the game does. Read these in any order.
TideWane is an idle, incremental RPG: an engine that keeps mining the dark while you are away, and pays out when you come back. You spend PSI on a skill tree, ascend for Pearls, and transcend for Void Cores, three prestige layers that each reset more than the last, so a single run can stretch across weeks. The deeper you go, the slower and stranger the water gets.
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Five per zone, at depths 20m, 50m, 90m, 130m, 180m. Final boss of each zone unlocks the next.
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Ascend to spend Pearls. Transcend to earn Void Cores. Permanent upgrades that survive both resets.
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Tracked through Steam. Bestiary entries reveal as you kill. No grinding for cosmetic completionism.
§ 03 / screenshots
What it looks like.
Nine real frames. No mock-ups. No upscaled marketing renders.
§ 04 / why TideWane
What it isn't.
Three things this game refuses to be.
No FOMO.
No daily logins. No timed events. You can put it down for a year and pick it back up unchanged.
No microtransactions.
You buy it once. Everything in the game is in the build.
No roadmap promises.
If a feature ships, it ships. If it isn't in version.json, it doesn't exist.
§ 05 / latest patch
Most recent ship.
Pulled live from version.json.
Patch
v1.2.2 · Apr 28, 2026