Eat, evolve, survive, every trait you add has a trade-off, and the pool keeps changing what it takes to win.
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How to play
Steer your microbe around a living pool, eating food motes for energy and DNA while dodging hazards. Survive a generation, then spend your DNA on new traits, speed, size, defenses and more. After you upgrade, the environment shifts, so the build that just worked may not anymore.
Food gives energy to survive and DNA to spend between generations
Every trait carries a cost or trade-off, there's no free upgrade
The pool's conditions change each generation, rewarding adaptable builds
Controls
Desktop: move with WASD or the arrow keys
Phone & tablet: hold and drag toward where you want to swim
Game modes
Daily: one shared seeded pool each day
Practice: endless fresh evolution runs
Tips & strategy
Bank a little DNA rather than spending it all, the next environment may need a different trait
Stay near food clusters but keep an escape route from hazards
Read the upcoming environment shift before committing to specialized traits
What you'll learn
Tide Pool is an eat-and-evolve survival game where natural selection drives the upgrades, making evolution something you experience.
