Tidalis is a block-based puzzle game with casual appeal, hardcore depth, and an addictive new streams mechanic. The basic rules of the game are this: blocks fall down into the board and have a color and an arrow direction. If a stack of blocks exceeds the height of the board, you lose. In order to clear blocks, you must right-click and drag paths through the arrows to set up chain reactions of like-colored blocks. If this sounds simple, thats because it is -- youll be lining up lengthy chains within minutes. But youll be sur...
Tidalis is the second standalone game from indie developer Arcen Games, known originally for their hardcore RTS/4X hybrid, AI War: Fleet Command. Not wishing to be typecast, and having game and level design backgrounds in a wide variety of genres, Arcen chose pretty much the exact opposite genre for their second game. The final game will be complete with Arcen staples such as co-op, huge amounts of content, and attention to depth and detail -- Tidalis is extremely easy for casual players to pick up, but it will also keep har...
Tidalis will bend your mind -- the latest game from AI War developer Arcen Games is a puzzle game with a brand new music, a painterly art style, and beautiful music. This video gives a quick rundown of the major updates and additions between 0.400 and 0.407 (a two week period). Current beta versions support local co-op, and soon the game will support Vs modes as well as network play. Demo version is free for anyone to check out the beta, or the full beta is available to those who preorder. Using the built-in level editor, yo...
Tidalis will bend your mind -- the latest game from AI War developer Arcen Games is a puzzle game with a brand new music, a painterly art style, and achingly beautiful music (most of which is much more upbeat than this track, which is from the adventure mode intro cutscene). Current beta versions support local co-op, and soon the game will support Vs modes as well as network play. Demo version is free for anyone to check out the beta, or the full beta is available to those who preorder. Using the built-in level editor, you c...
Tidalis, $10 USD, Indie Title arcengames Available from Steam, Stardock Impulse, and a few others. You can try the game in trial-mode but all the editors; custom games; player-created or standalone levels [are disabled]; quick games limited to 2 minutes each;; only the first 15 levels of adventure mode available; not all special blocks, game modes, and so forth are available. A short game with the AI10 with the new race DLC gameplay up to 60 000 points. May I say here that I was the one who suggested this, but its obviously...


