Tainted Tide

About the Game

Stranded on a damaged lifeboat in a corrupted, endless ocean, you have 40 days to survive. Fish, scavenge, and craft by day. Fight what rises from the deep by night — in match-3 battles where every tile is a weapon.

The ocean stretches endlessly around you. You wake up on a damaged lifeboat with nothing but your wits, a handful of supplies, and 40 days standing between you and whatever comes next.

40 Days is a survival game where you must manage your food, water, and materials carefully to survive, because when the sun goes down, the sea doesn't stay quiet. Mermaids sing from the dark. Shallowhounds pace just beneath the surface. Things with too many teeth and not enough sense drag themselves onto your raft — and you fight them off in fast, tactical match-3 battles.

Survive the day

Manage your raft, your hunger, your thirst, and your fading power reserves. Fish the waters around you for everything from common catches to exotic, unsettling specimens pulled from the corrupted sea. Scavenge scrap, plastic, rope, fabric, batteries, and circuit boards, then head to the crafting bench to turn them into repair kits, upgrades, and the gear that keeps you alive one more day.

Fight the night

When darkness falls, the creatures come. Battle them in deep, tactical match-3 combat with roguelite bones: match icons to build mana, unleash elemental abilities, raise shields to soak incoming damage, and chip away enemy health before they chip away yours. Equip artifacts to shape your build, manage your item pouch mid-fight, and decide — every single night — whether to stand and fight or hope you can outlast till morning. No two nights plays the same, and every artifact you claim changes what you're capable of the next time the sea comes knocking.

40 days. That's all you get.

Every day you survive is one day closer to whatever answers wait at the end — and one day further from where you started. Ration carefully. Upgrade wisely. Don't trust the singing.


Key Features:

• Day/night survival loop — manage hunger, thirst, and power while gathering resources by day and upgrading your raft

• Roguelite match-3 battle system — roguelite icon-matching combat drives tactical fights against sea creatures, with builds that shift and grow every run

• Deep crafting & inventory — turn scavenged scrap into food, tools, and survival upgrades

• Artifacts & abilities — build toward your own combat style with equippable artifacts and elemental orb abilities that stack and evolve as you survive

• A raft to call home — manage storage, crafting, and upgrades from your own small corner of the ocean

• An escalating threat — from infected mermaids and grotesque shallowhounds to far worse abominations the deeper you survive