Fit check
Is Rotten Tide worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Tower defense players who want to assemble teams around different enemy abilities.
- Strategy players who enjoy managing agent upgrades and base resources.
- Players interested in fighting monsters with traits that vary by country.
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a broad range of gameplay types may find the focus on defending against monster attacks limiting.
- Players who expect to use base objects without completing additional objectives may hit a wall when they must rescue survivors and transport supplies.
- Players looking for survivor-group management or crafting as central systems may find those activities outside the stated focus.
Our take on Rotten Tide
The specific friction point is using base objects: players must rescue a survivor and transport a supply item before using objects such as turrets. Anyone expecting to deploy defenses immediately may hit this extra objective first.
What is Rotten Tide?
A horizontal 2D tower defense game about protecting cities around the world from monsters whose appearances and abilities vary by country.
Tetra Force sends agents to fight the creatures and rescue survivors. The roster includes more than 20 agents with different characteristics and individual skill trees. Players collect Credits to upgrade agent skills and choose teams for the enemies they face. The Tetra Force base has objects such as an Agent Producer and turrets. To use these objects, players must rescue survivors and transport supply items themselves. How players use the objects affects stage difficulty, alongside their choices of agents and skill upgrades.
How Rotten Tide plays
- 01Agent roster
- The game includes more than 20 agents with differing characteristics.
- 02Individual skill trees
- Credits can be collected and spent to upgrade each agent’s skills.
- 03Base objects
- Using objects such as turrets requires rescuing survivors and transporting supply items.
Rotten Tide compared to similar games
Until We Die is also a base-defense strategy game, with players defending an underground subway station and surviving about 30 game days of attacks. Rotten Tide instead focuses on agent selection and skill trees, and requires players to rescue survivors and transport supply items to use base objects.
Rotten Tide: platforms & release
Is Rotten Tide worth it?
It is worth it if: tower defense players who want to assemble teams around different enemy abilities. Skip it if: players seeking a broad range of gameplay types may find the focus on defending against monster attacks limiting.
Where can I download Rotten Tide?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Rotten Tide's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Rotten Tide on?
Windows only.
