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TideWane is 66% off for a limited time. If you've been on the fence nows your time. With five zones, twenty-five bosses, three prestige layers, 109 achievements. No microtransactions, no daily logins, no battle passes. You buy it once. What is TideWane? A deep-sea idle dungeon cr
Linux players : this build fixes two issues that prevented TideWane from launching on modern Linux desktops. On native Wayland sessions (Hyprland, GNOME Wayland, KDE Plasma Wayland, Sway, etc.), the game would crash on startup with a GTK initialization error from the in-game WebV
A small fix for a visible UI bug at non-100% UI Scale. If you'd raised UI Scale to 110% or 120% in Settings → Interface, the Dive view was rendering larger than the window — clipping the depth meter, ability cooldowns, and powerup icons off the right and bottom edges. Lowering it
What you'll be able to play The Shallows — all 5 milestone bosses, full fish roster The full PSI Tree — 108 nodes, 8 branches One Ascension prestige layer Artifact Forge, Zone Shop, Bestiary A complete first-zone arc Roughly 30-45 minutes of play. Demo saves stay independent of t
Privacy panel A new Privacy section in Settings, plus a first-launch disclosure strip on the title screen. Anonymous progression telemetry — opt-out, with a Delete My Data button that wipes everything tied to your install. Collected Which milestones you reach (first dive, first b
This update bundles a polish pass you've been asking for — you can now see every multiplier that built your drill damage — with four bug fixes from playtester feedback. No new zones yet, but a lot of things that were broken or opaque are now fixed and visible. NEW — Combat Stats
What's New Combat Stats panel — Settings → STATS now shows every multiplier feeding your damage, with a live worked-example in monospace. The damage formula was restructured; drill-tree nodes stack multiplicatively, artifact/zone-shop/Void "Power" bonuses stack additively. Bug Fi
macOS & Linux now launch properly If you were on macOS or Linux and saw a blank page or what looked like a GitHub repo instead of the game — sorry! Your game will download this update and launch correctly now. Stat tracking fixes Best Combo on the Stats screen now actually tr
v1.1.1 — Achievement Sync Fix Achievements have been silently failing to register with Steam since launch. The game was sending the wrong API names, so every unlock was dropped on Steam's side. Fixed. What this means for you Any achievement you earn from now on will pop on Steam
Tidal Surge (v1.1.0) is live This patch exists entirely because of the detailed bug reports you posted in the Community Hub. Every thread, every repro step, every "I got this error" — turned into a fix. Still 33% off through Apr 28. If launch-week bugs made you hesitate, they're
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Fixes • Fixed the game freezing mid-dive during high-combo kill bursts • Fixed custom cursors rendering as a black dot (now display correctly) • Fixed the Windows taskbar bleeding through in fullscreen mode New • Drift Shop split into UPGRADES and ARTIFACT FORGE toggle — no more