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Tidefront
Build an island fortress, then take the fight to other islands.
Tidefront is a real-time strategy game for iPhone, iPad and Android. You build a fortress on an island, power it, house and feed the people who crew it, then raid other islands with bombers, warships and landing craft full of tanks.
Build at home, fight on their beaches
Your island is the base you build up between raids. A raid is a real-time battle against someone else’s island, fought with whatever you send: jets, a fleet, or troops on landing craft.
- Build
- Lay out power plants, condo towers, mines and derricks on your island. Every building keeps one clear cell around it, so tanks and ships can always get through.
- Staff
- Residents move in while there’s power, housing and food. They work the buildings and crew every tank, jet and ship.
- Air strike
- Send bombers, stealth fighters and drones at another island. Each jet flies one sortie and heads home once its weapons are spent.
- Naval assault
- Cruisers, destroyers and submarines take on coastal batteries and anti-ship missiles from the sea.
- Landing
- Load tanks and infantry onto landing craft or helicopters, pick a beach and put them ashore under fire.
- Defend
- Your own island fights back without you: missile sites, howitzers and the garrison you left at home.
Six factions, six ways to fight
You pick a faction and a colour when you start. Every faction builds the same core of infantry, armor, aircraft and warships, then adds six or seven units of its own, based on a real present-day military doctrine.
Atlantic Command
Expeditionary air power
Crewed stealth jets leading drone wingmen, early-warning jets that expose enemy stealth, and supercarriers.
Stealth Bomber 
Wingman Drone - +15% aircraft damage
- +10% prices
Pacific Directorate
Mass shipbuilding and hypersonic missiles
Shipyards that never stop, drone carriers, and destroyers whose hypersonic missiles reach 17 cells.
Hypersonic Strike Destroyer 
Heavy Stealth Fighter - +20% build speed
- Ships take 10% more damage
Northern Bastion
Defense in depth
Layered air defense over the homeland, quiet cruise-missile submarines, and the heaviest tanks.
Cruise-Missile Submarine 
Heavy Tank - +20% defense damage
- +15% oil income
- 10% slower building
Strait Coalition
Asymmetric swarms
Cheap one-way attack drones, fast missile boats, a converted cargo ship launching drone swarms, and missiles hidden in hillside tunnels.
Loitering Munition 
Missile Boat - 15% lower prices
- +20% oil income
- Ships take 15% more damage
Littoral League
Coastal denial
Explosive sea drones, sea drones that shoot down aircraft, anti-ship missile trucks and FPV drone teams on trucks.
Explosive Sea Drone 
FPV Launch Truck - Buildings take 15% less damage
- +20% population growth
- 10% less mineral income
Continental Union
Lasers and electronic warfare
Laser frigates and laser air-defense vehicles, railgun destroyers, jamming jets and sixth-generation fighters.
Laser Frigate 
Sixth-Gen Fighter - Aircraft take 15% less damage
- 15% less oil income
An island that runs on people
There are no harvesters to babysit. Buildings produce while they have power and workers, and the same residents crew your tanks, jets and ships.
- Minerals and oil
- Mines and derricks pay out every second they’re powered and staffed. Offshore oil platforms need a naval yard to protect them.
- Power
- Power plants run everything. A nuclear plant gives ten times the output, but if it’s destroyed it damages everything within three cells.
- Residents
- People move into condo towers while there’s power and a grocery store to feed them. Schools train crews, so units build faster.
- Crews
- A destroyer needs 40 residents and a carrier 120. If the ship sinks, its crew is lost. Drones need no crew, only control bandwidth.
Command Center
Condo Tower
Grocery Store
School
Power Plant
Nuclear Power Plant
Armory
Naval Yard
Spaceport
64 units, 26 buildings
Units unlock in tiers: the factory alone for the basics, a radar for long-range weapons, a school for highly trained crews and the research center for stealth, lasers and railguns.
Main Battle Tank
Built at the Armory. Rides a landing craft to the enemy’s beach.
Rifle Squad
The cheapest unit every faction can build: eight soldiers with rifles.
Landing Craft
Carries four tanks or squads. Send it onto a beach to put them ashore.
Fighter Jet
Scrambles from its pad when enemy aircraft come close.
Bomber Jet
Two heavy bombs per sortie, then home to rearm.
Transport Helicopter
Flies two infantry squads over the coastal guns.
Destroyer
A gun for ships and shore targets, missiles for aircraft.
Cruiser
Heavier guns and long-range air defense for the whole fleet.
Supercarrier
Atlantic Command and the Pacific Directorate only: air strikes from 16 cells.
Your colour, on every unit
Pick one of eight team colours with your faction. Every unit and building is painted in it, so you can tell your fleet from the enemy’s at a glance.
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Questions
When is Tidefront out?
It’s in development, with no release date yet. The App Store and Google Play buttons on this page will link to the listings once they’re live.
Which devices will it run on?
iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets, played in landscape. Every control works by touch: tap to select, tap to move or attack, drag to pan, pinch to zoom.
How does multiplayer work?
Raids are asynchronous. You attack a snapshot of another player’s island, and its defenses and garrison fight back on their own, so nobody has to be online at the same time. During development you raid islands run by the computer.
Are the factions and units real?
No. The six factions are fictional powers, each built on a present-day military doctrine. The units are hypothetical near-future designs based on technology in service or in testing as of 2026, such as drone boats, wingman drones, ship lasers and hypersonic missiles.
How many units and buildings are there?
There are 64 units and 26 buildings. Every faction shares a core of infantry, armor, aircraft and warships, and adds six or seven units or buildings of its own. Carriers, supercarriers and stealth fighters go only to the factions whose doctrine has them, and the others get stronger mobile air defense instead.
Coming to iPhone, iPad and Android
Tidefront is in development. The store listings will be linked here when they go live.