2025 · Animals
Shallow Sea
A multi-layered puzzle game set on a reef where players build vibrant ocean scenes by placing tiles of fish, coral, and other sea life onto personal boards. Players pick tiles and place them on empty spaces, triggering interactions: surrounding a coral with matching fish flips it to become a habitat, and seashells can lure and move fish to create combos. Players choose which fish occupy completed corals while considering puzzle and ecosystem cards that define scoring conditions. The goal is to populate the reef and meet the distinct requirements of ecosystem cards to score points, balancing immediate combos with longer-term planning.
- Players
- 1–4 best 2
- Playing time
- 30–45 min
- Age
- 14+
- Complexity
- 2.3 / 5
About the game
- Design
- Art
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Full stats in Ludoya- 40
- Plays logged
- 48
- Players
- 1h 7m
- Average play
- 23
- In collections
- 15
- On wishlists
- 1
- Pre-ordered
6.6/10
from 4 Ludoya reviews
I had fun trying it at Bologna Play 2025 Beautiful artworks and materials the game is a somehow strategic pick-up and place tiles with higher level of fishes placement. Nothing revolutionary but enjoyable for sure
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Free, on web, Android and iOS
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