Tideline

a cozy one-thumb fishing game

Inherit a weathered tackle box at a forgotten pond. Cast, wait, catch, identify, fill the journal. No fail states, no timers. Each tide brings different fish.

controls

Tap (or click) on the lake to cast - the rod windups, whips forward, bobber arcs out
Tap during BITE to hook the fish (~2.5s window)
Tap rapidly during REEL to land it - brief releases tolerated up to 0.55s
Tap RELEASE (+karma) or KEEP (+coin) after the catch
F cycles the fish model on the catch screen (9 options)
U opens the upgrade screen (LURE / HOOK / DEPTH)
J opens the journal

built with

raylib 6.0 in single-file C, cross-compiled to WebAssembly via Emscripten
3D pond by phantom-fox (CC-BY 4.0); fish models by Quaternius (CC0)
Music + SFX from Pixabay / Freesound community contributors
Source: github.com/binRick/tideline (private)

v0.1 preview - the iOS port is what is shipping