Tiderace

You don't steer the ship. You move the water, and the water moves the ship.

Drag your finger across the sea and it really does push the water around. You can see the swirl you made. Your ship drifts on top of all that. So the game is mostly about reading what the water is already doing, and pushing it where you need it to go.

You'll be getting past reefs, wrecked hulls, mines, dock walls with one gap in them, shore cannons, patrol boats that ram you, and planes that drop bombs on the line you're sailing down.

There's always a way through, but sometimes you have to make one. Mines float, and they're lighter than your ship, so a hard stir across a row will shove them aside before it moves you at all. Most people never find that out.

It's easy to overdo it, though. Stir too hard and you'll knock your own hull into the rock you were trying to avoid.

WHAT YOU GET • 22 stretches of sea, in a different order every run — shallows, coral, wreck coasts, smugglers' docks, ghost fleets, minefields • Three ships: a fast sloop, a galleon that takes twice the damage, and a submarine that can dive under a row it can't fit through • A Game Center leaderboard for distance sailed

NO ADS, NO TIMERS No ads, no energy bars, no daily login rewards, nothing to wait for. There are two extra ships you can buy once if you want them. Everything else is there from your first run. It works offline.