No. I
Minesweeper
An illuminated almanac of small dangers.
Cozy Minesweeper with no unfair guesses, candle markers, and a generative soundtrack.
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— Manu Arcade —
The Arcade
Small games, made for the feel of them. A candlelit cabinet of trifles from the studio behind Tideward.
— The cabinet —
A cabinet of small games.
One leaflet apiece. Pull a card from the cabinet and play; each is a quiet, finished thing, kept by candlelight.
No. II
Wordbloom
A word a day, in bloom.
A daily five-letter puzzle that flowers as you solve it.
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No. III
Lightfall
Stack the falling light.
A one-tap tower of lanterns, with a rising chime for every perfect drop.
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No. IV
Tidepool
Tend a small, shining tide.
A pocket idler, and a first taste of Tideward.
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No. V
Lantern
Carry a light through the dark.
A daily candlelit maze you illuminate as you walk.
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No. VI
Almanac Solitaire
Patience, by candlelight.
Klondike, dealt on illuminated cards.
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No. VII
2048
Slide pigment into gold.
The viral merge classic, as illuminated tiles that gild from parchment to gold.
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No. VIII
Concordance
Sort the hidden threads.
A daily grouping puzzle: find the four secret fours among sixteen, in the Connections vein.
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No. IX
Serpentine
A wick of living ink.
The timeless Snake, reskinned as a candle-wick gathering embers across the page.
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No. X
Lattice
Set the quoins, sweep the lines.
Drop blocks into a parchment grid and clear rows in gold. The 1010 mechanic, made cozy.
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No. XI
Memory
Find each sigil its twin.
The matching-pairs game, played with illuminated almanac cards.
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No. XII
Sudoku
Fill the gilded grid.
The number puzzle the whole world knows, on illuminated parchment. Daily, with three depths.
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No. XIII
Cinderfall
Embers into the hearth.
Falling blocks, reskinned as glowing embers. Bank four rows at once for gold.
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No. XIV
Mahjong Solitaire
Quiet the stacked almanac.
Match free tiles and clear the turtle. A daily board, always solvable.
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No. XV
Nonogram
A figure from the clues.
Paint-by-numbers logic: read the clues and an illuminated picture rises.
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No. XVI
Fifteen
Set them one to fifteen.
The classic sliding-tile puzzle, in glowing numerals.
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No. XVII
Quatrain
Four seals in a line.
Connect four against the almanac, a wax-seal duel with a cunning opponent.
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No. XVIII
Reversi
Flip the field, sun and moon.
The classic disc-flipping strategy game, played against the house.
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No. XIX
Bubbles
Aim, bounce, and match three.
The beloved bubble shooter, in glowing orbs of light.
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No. XX
Rampart
Break the gilded wall.
The timeless brick-breaker, with a wandering orb of light.
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No. XXI
Mothlight
Flap toward the candle.
A one-tap flyer: thread a moth through the dim almanac, gap by gap.
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No. XXII
Wisps
Catch the rising lights.
A whack-a-mole of will-o-wisps, sixty seconds of glow and grab.
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No. XXIII
Echo
Watch, then echo it back.
The memory game of growing tones, played on a ring of candle-sconces.
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No. XXIV
Flood
Spill the page to one wash.
The Flood-It colour puzzle: flood the grid from the corner in the fewest moves.
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No. XXV
Tallow
Guess it before it gutters.
Hangman by candlelight: find the word before the candle burns away.
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No. XXVI
Wordwell
Words hid in the margins.
A daily word search drawn from an illuminated page.
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No. XXVII
Mosaic
Three in a line, then cascade.
The match-three classic: illuminated tiles that fall and chain.
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No. XXVIII
Draughts
Forced jumps, crowned kings.
Checkers against the almanac, wax seals on a candlelit board.
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No. XXIX
Hanoi
Raise the tower anew.
The Tower of Hanoi: carry the rings peg to peg in the fewest moves.
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No. XXX
Updraft
Bounce into the dark.
A rising ember, ledge to ledge, as high as you can climb.
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— The studio's flagship —
When you are ready for a longer game.
The Arcade is where the studio keeps its small things. The long, patient one is Tideward, an idle almanac native to every Apple device, now in open alpha. If a trifle from the cabinet stays with you, the cabinet's maker has a whole world waiting.