TIDE OR HIDE

Four ducks. One egg. Ninety-nine nights. Deep water is the only wall you have - nothing on four legs will follow you into it. Every night, it drains away.TIDE OR HIDE is a 1-4 player online co-op survival game about a duck family with a hatchet, a stolen egg and an island that changes shape on a timetable. Three minutes of daylight. Cut wood, keep the fire burning, fish, hunt rabbits and feed the workbench - and get back before the water leaves, because the way home is made of water.

Chop trees with your hatchet. Mind where they fall. Mind who is standing there. Branches and scrap go into one shared stockpile at camp. Craft a clock, a compass, a team-wide marsh map, a bag, a spear and the flashlight. Ninety seconds of night, and the island drains region by region. The outer marsh goes dry first. Your return channel holds the longest. The camp pool never fully empties - which is exactly why everything hungry looks there first.

Knowing which channel dies at which second is the difference between a route home and a very long walk. Dogs - the hunters bring them. Fast, and they never lose interest. Foxes - they track you across the exposed mud, but won't follow you into deep water. Hunters - armed, organised, and coming for your stockpile. You see the raid coming days ahead on the counter.…