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High Tide, Underdog Games, 2025 — front cover (image provided by the publisher)
DIY wooden High Tide
All of the components laid out in the opening! I crocheted these little hexes so I could play before my preorder arrives. :)
Underdog Games late-stage prototype.
First game with the daughter!

High Tide (2024)

Players
2
Best: 2
Playing time
5–15 min
Age
8+
7.38
Average rating
351
Ratings
1.11/5
Weight
#5979
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Marceline Leiman
Artist:Marceline Leiman, Zach Higgins
Publisher:Underdog Games (I) +1 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 7, Complexity 2.2, Theme 3
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity2.2
Theme3.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

NauticalAbstract StrategyEnvironmentalTerritory BuildingAnimalsHexagon GridPattern BuildingArea Majority / InfluenceGrid MovementThree Dimensional MovementPattern MovementPieces as Map

Overview

Waves come in, sweeping up the ocean floor.

High Tide is a strategic stacking game for two players inspired by mutualistic relationships found in the natural world. The game is played without a board on any flat surface with 19 wooden hexagon tiles: 7 tiles for each player and 5 neutral tiles. The tiles are randomized in a grid at the start of each round, leading to over six million different starting positions — and millions more unique and pretty end states!

Players take turns moving one tile of their own color or a neutral color. The twist: A tile must stack onto another tile so that it is higher up than it was before. You want to cover your opponent's tiles and have the most uncovered tiles by the end of the round. When a player cannot take a legal move, the round ends.

The first player to win three rounds wins the game.

—description from the designer

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