Tideline Command

Tideline Command is a slower strategy game that rewards planning. You build up a harbor settlement, manage supply routes, and defend against raids that come in waves. The twist is the tide, which floods low areas on a timer and forces you to think about where you place things.

Touch controls are mostly good. Pinch to zoom, drag to pan, tap to place. The one rough spot is selecting units in a crowd — it took us a while to stop misclicking. There's a grid-snap toggle in settings that made building far less fiddly.

It's a medium-weight battery user. Nothing alarming, but a long raid-defense session will cost you noticeably more than idle base management.

What we liked

• Tide mechanic keeps layouts interesting
• Readable interface even on small screens
• Grid-snap setting fixes fiddly building