Tidelight · v1.0.2

Make friends with spirits. Follow the lanterns home.

Tidelight is a pixel-art adventure along a changing coast. Set out from Lantern Bay with a lantern and a growing party of spirits. Explore glowing woods, snowy paths, waterways and a city beneath the tide, restoring old routes to help the last boat find its way home.

English is the default language. All interface and story text is available in English and Simplified Chinese. Switch languages on the title screen or in Settings; the game remembers your choice. The short original voice lines play in Chinese mode only.

Explore the coast together

• Six chapters and seven regions: follow a connected journey from the harbor to the old city and back to the homecoming lights.
• Eight spirits to befriend: observe their behavior, offer Honeyfruit, aim an orb and respond to the bonding ring.
• Turn-based companion battles: restore Focus with basic strikes, spend it on skills, protect your party and build shared Resonance for a chorus.
• A coast shaped by tide and time: repair waterwheels, reconnect wind signals and find routes with help from your companions.
• Places worth stopping for: visit the bakery, bookshop and lantern workshop, or pause beneath the flowers at Leaf & Bloom Cafe.

Start your journey

Choose Start a New Journey and speak to Linsha in Lantern Bay. Stand back and observe a spirit before approaching it. The title menu also offers separate demos for chapters 4, 5 and 6; demo progress is stored separately from your main journey.

Keyboard and mouse controls

• WASD — move; Shift — run.
• Mouse — aim; 1–6 — choose an orb or Honeyfruit; G / left click — throw.
• E — talk or interact; F — spar when available.
• Space — observe or finish the current dialogue line.
• M — map; Tab — journal; J — route notes; Esc — close a panel or pause.

v1.0.2 — bilingual play and loading improvements

Play free in a desktop browser or download the macOS edition. The web version loads the title resources first, then loads each region when needed. New areas may show a short loading screen. Use a keyboard and mouse; the game is designed for desktop play.

Browser progress stays in that browser. Clearing site data can remove your save, and progress is not automatically shared between websites, devices or the macOS edition.

Credits and AI-assisted development

AI tools assisted programming, writing, some artwork and synthetic voice assets. Other art, fonts and audio retain their source credits and licenses, available in the game and the release package. The gameplay trailer is recorded from the game, with English synthetic narration.

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