Tide Crates

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.

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

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

• 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.

Push-only crate sorting on a grid is Sokoban, a genre defined by having all the time in the world to think.

The original hazard removes exactly that: the water level rises in real time, flooded crates float and drift, and deep water kills you.

Taking away deliberation changes which solutions count. A Sokoban solve is a plan you execute; under a rising flood the optimal plan may be unreachable, so the right answer becomes the adequate one you can complete before the board changes underneath you.

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.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.