Tide Crates

A crate-pushing puzzle with a clock made of water — solve each room before the rising tide floats your crates off and drowns your path.

How to play

Push crates onto their target tiles, one shove at a time, with no pulling — the classic crate-sorting puzzle. But the water level keeps rising in real time: flooded crates float and drift, and deep water is deadly to you, so you have to solve the layout under genuine time pressure rather than at your leisure.

• Walk into a crate to push it; you can only push, never pull.
• Land every crate on its goal tile to clear the room.
• Beat the rising tide — water floats crates and drowns you if it gets too deep.

Game modes

• Daily — a shared seeded layout for every player each day.
• Hand-built and seeded levels with verified solutions.

Controls

• Desktop: Arrow keys or WASD to move and push.
• Phone & tablet: tap or swipe to move — pointer controls are supported.

Tips & strategy

• Plan the whole solution before you start — pushing a crate into a corner with no escape is a dead end.
• Move the crates the water will reach first; rescue the threatened ones before they drift.
• Use higher dry ground as a staging area while the lower tiles flood.

About Tide Crates

Tide Crates is an original free browser game that adds a real-time rising-water hazard to the classic grid-based crate-pushing puzzle, turning a calm logic genre into a race against the flood.

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