Wyrdtide

Skål! Wyrdtide is a viking survival roguelite, solo or in online co-op for up to four, where you don't wade into the horde on foot. You sail your longship straight into it. You hold the rudder and the sail; your crew mans the benches and fights on its own. Raiders come in waves that only thicken the longer you stay afloat, and every voyage ends as a saga worth telling or a wreck worth remembering. Take the helmThe boat is your hero.

Run with the wind under sail, pull a burst on the oars, and leap clear over raiders and rocks when a red mark warns of a blow about to land. Nothing can touch you in the air. The voyageCast off with one weapon. Pick a hull, a crew and a single weapon. Everything else is dealt at sea. Level up on the water. Sunk raiders leave shards behind. Every level deals three cards, runes or weapons, with two rerolls and a banish to fix a bad hand.

Raid the islands. Hold your boat at the shore of a village with a flame above it until the ring closes, then take new crew, hacksilver, or gamble on crafting a rune. Fell the warden. Every sea has a gate, and a warden wakes beside it. Sink it, then choose: a harder tide on the same waters, or through the gate into a new sea.…