Tidepool Keeper

Description

A tide pool is a tiny world that runs on its own rules. You are its keeper.

In Tidepool Keeper you never move a creature. You set three things: how much sunlight reaches the water, which way and how hard the current pushes, and where each bit of plankton food lands. Then you watch. Kelp takes hold and sways. Limpets follow the kelp and graze. Anemones open where limpets settle. Starfish arrive last, where anemones and limpets meet. Fill the goals shown at the top of the pool and life emerges, for one to three stars.

What You Do

• Drop plankton beside what is already alive. Life spreads from what you feed.
• Turn the Light dial from dim to dazzling to speed growth.
• Set the Current to carry plankton along its heading, around rocks and into corners.
• Read the pool, then wait. Some pools reward patience more than taps.

What Is Inside

• 73 pools in eight worlds on the shore, each world adding a twist: a capped light dial, a current that only runs one way, scarce plankton, pools you must hold steady for several tides.
• Tide of the Day: a fresh Daily pool every day, with a streak to keep.
• Free Pool: a sandbox where you grow whatever you like.
• Tint Cabinet: eight water colours, from Clear Teal and Seaglass to Amber Tannin and Deep Ink, bought with pearls you earn by playing.
• A rock pool built as a real 3D diorama with wet stone, rippling water, drifting caustic light and creatures that sway.
• Gentle generative sound, haptics, Reduce Motion, works fully offline.

Free with ads, optional monthly ad-free. Free with ads. An optional monthly plan removes ads.

Grow a living tide pool

A tide pool is a tiny world that runs on its own rules. You are its keeper.

What's New

Version 1.0 launch: 73 rock pools in eight worlds, a Tide of the Day pool, a Free Pool sandbox and eight water tints to earn.