Tidewatch Command

Tidewatch Command mixes tower defense with a bit of resource routing. You defend a chain of harbor towns, building turrets and repair stations while managing a limited pool of engineers you send around the map. It sounds fiddly but it clicks fast, and the difficulty curve is fair.

What sets it apart is the supply system: you're not just placing towers, you're deciding which routes to keep open when a wave threatens to cut you off. That extra layer turns each level into a small puzzle. There's an offline campaign plus an endless mode, and both run without any connection.

The later maps get genuinely tense, and I lost a few times before figuring out the rhythm. It's a smart, self-contained strategy game that never asks you to be online.

What we liked

• Tower defense with supply-line routing
• Fair difficulty curve
• Campaign and endless mode offline