Tidegate island puzzle game: Harrow Strand at Spring High and again at Half tide, two islands on one map, beside the Drowned Chapel

Point-and-click · Myst-like · offline on the phone

An island puzzle game where the tide is the only control. Play it in your browser.

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Tidegate is a quiet, hand-painted island puzzle game, a Myst-like on a tidal island whose keepers vanished mid-ritual. Set the tide from a broken brass orrery and every scene changes at once: low tide and high tide are two different islands on one map. No combat, no timers, no death. The first reach is free in your browser and on your phone.

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Harrow Reach freeNo timers, no deathKeeper's Almanac hintsNine languages

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Brenn Hollow · the keepers are gone

The keepers vanished mid-ritual. The tide is still waiting.

Brenn Hollow is a tidal island whose keepers disappeared in the middle of a rite. The harbor beacons are dark, the bells are underwater, and the great brass orrery that sets the tide is jammed. You wash ashore at ebb with nothing in your hands and a letter in the sand.

Turn the orrery and the whole island drowns or drains at once. Read the mud ledger at half tide, ring the drowned carillon at its waterlines, chart a cove that keeps a contrary clock. Relight all four beacons, find the second orrery, and open the Tidegate to learn what the keepers were trying to do, and why they never finished.

Low tide and high tide are two different islands sharing one map.

Four reaches and a gate

An island that changes with the water

Harrow Strand

The free reach: the landing beach, the mud ledger and the first beacon.

The Mill Race

Sluices and a waterwheel; route the water before the tide comes in.

The Drowned Chapel

A carillon whose bells only ring at their own waterline.

Lighthouse Point

The anti-clock cove and the last beacon before the gate.

The orrery

One brass control for the whole island: five tides, every scene at once.

Free on both, paid on both

The same island puzzle game on your phone and in a browser tab

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Free, everywhere	Paid, everywhere
Harrow Reach: the shore, the mud ledger, the first beacon	Cannery Rows, Chapel Shoals, Lighthouse Point and the Tidegate finale
The orrery, the journal, the map, the letters	The Almanac's plain-spoken hint tier
Atmospheric and concrete hints
Achievements for the free reach

What it plays like

One control, five tides, every scene at once

tide puzzle

One control, five tides, every scene at once. Dead Low, Ebb, Half, Flood, Spring High. The orrery sets the tide for the whole island, so a sluice opened in the cannery can finish a puzzle at the chapel. Far planes drown first.

point and click island game

Six painted scenes in four reaches. Harrow Strand, Cannery Rows, the Mill Race, the Drowned Chapel, Lighthouse Point and the Tidegate itself. Drag to pan the parallax, tap a brass stud to act, read the letters the keepers left.

lighthouse puzzle game

The anti-clock cove and the drowned carillon. Each bell sounds only at its own waterline; the cove runs on a contrary clock. Light all four beacons, re-sync the second orrery, open the gate. The game never solves a puzzle for you.

free myst like games

A Myst-like with hints that respect you. The Keeper's Almanac watches your attempts and offers three tiers: atmospheric, concrete, plain-spoken. Free players get the first two; the plain-spoken tier comes with the unlock.

Own it on both

Your phone and this browser, one owner

From your phone

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From the browser

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Nothing to buy twice

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Questions

Tidegate, in a browser and on a phone

Is Tidegate a Myst-like?

Yes: a first-person-feeling point-and-click on a mysterious island, hand-painted, with puzzles read from the world and documents rather than told. One idea is its own: the tide is the only control.

Can I play the island puzzle game in my browser for free?

Yes. Harrow Reach, the mud ledger and the first beacon are free in your browser and on your phone. The other three reaches and the finale are one purchase.

Is there a Myst game for iPhone or Android?

Tidegate is on both stores and in the browser. On the phone it plays offline; the browser edition saves in your browser.

What is the tide puzzle?

A brass orrery sets the tide to one of five stops for the whole island. Everything responds at once, so the same scene is a different place at low and high water.

If I unlock it on my phone, is it unlocked in the browser?

Yes. Open the app, choose Play in your browser in Settings and scan the code on this site. Your beacons, journal and the unlock come across.

If I unlock it in the browser, is it unlocked on my phone?

Are there timers, combat or a way to die?

None. You can leave a puzzle for a week and come back to the same tide.

Guides

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