Tidal Waste is a turn-based role playing game where you play as Olive, a sea turtle who gets stranded in an ocean garbage patch while looking for food for her family. Her shell gets damaged, but a platoon of worms find her on the shore and repairs it using an experimental flamethrower compartment.
You discover the mysterious pirate captain Ollie that says he can help, but before he can, he’s dragged off by a rival pirate gang made of garbage! Adventure through the trash island town of Dimrag, and along the way interact with the locals, collect helpful items, and learn to dispose of enemies. Start looking for your new friend and try to find food to save your family!
Play as Olive
Finding food hasn't been a problem for Olive until she encountered the garbage patch. Now it's a struggle to distinguish trash from snacks, and the garbage enemies have killed the food supply. Play to help her stay alive, and find food for her family!
Battle Garbage Enemies
Octopeel, Twocan, and many other trash opponents have come to life and threaten your way of life! Fight for your survival and try to dispose of them properly, once and for all.
Adventure Through Dimrag
Built on top of a garbage patch, Dimrag is one of the roughest and toughest towns on the high seas! Explore the island, search for items, and talk to the locals.
Collect Items
Jellyfish Juice, Shealth Drinks, Heimli-fish, and more can be stored in your shell. Earn them for defeating enemeies, or buy them from Kelpie's Shop with your Sand Dollars!
Why Battle Garbage?
The ocean is littered with garbage, and it's terribly damaging the ecosystem. Animals can easily mistake different types of trash for food, leading them to their eventual death as their appetites feel full but no nutrients are consumed.[1] The chemicals and micro-plastics from the garbage that seep into the water not only kill off marine life, but their food sources as well. Up above, this also means a contamination of food sources for sea surface feeders and us humans on land.[2]
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There's so much garbage in the ocean that it clots together in giant garbage patches pulled in by currents.[3] Tidal Waste is set in one of those garbage patches, and aims to teach players about proper waste disposal through the gameplay.
During battles with the various waste enemies, players are able to choose from a variety of skills that represent different disposal methods. If the correct skills are used on the corresponding type of waste enemy, they gain extra rewards and deal extra damage. To further symbolize how incorrect waste disposal can hurt the environment, if a player uses a wrong disposal method, there is a negative effect and the player may lose items, health, or experience.