Hydroform
Build · Hydrate · Contain · Survive
The game
Water finds a way
Hydroform is a 3D puzzle game of fluid physics and speed. Pieces fall onto a floating board: raise the land into walls, catch the water in lakes, and burn the lakes off for points before the water finds a way over the edge.
Every lake you hold is a gamble. Buoys, deep water and rainbows each multiply the lake you burn next, so the longer you hold, the more it pays. Spill too much and the drain fills, and the board is out.
- Genre
- Puzzle · Action
- Players
- 1 to 4 on one screen
- Controls
- Keyboard · Gamepad · Touch
- Platforms
- PC · Mobile
- Status
- In development
Trailer
See it move
Trailer coming soon
How it plays
Build, fill, burn, survive
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Build
Raisers lift the land. Drop them in rings and ridges to wall off ground for water.
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Fill
Droplets and rain fill what you have built. Hold a basin deep enough and it counts as a lake.
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Burn
Flares evaporate a lake for points, multiplied by its buoys, its depth and any rainbow.
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Survive
Water that spills over the edge fills the drain. Plug the leaks; a full drain ends the board.
Also in the bag: sinkers to lower the ground, bombs that blow holes, ice that freezes a lake, mines in the water, and a quake meter that fills with every block you pile on.
Modes
Solo
Classic
Level 1, everything in. Normal or Hard, with your best score to beat.
Daily Seed
Normal rules on the day's shared seed, the same for everyone. One official run a day.
Challenge
A fixed piece sequence to learn and beat, frozen discs that thaw in thirty seconds, boulders, holes, a half-full drain, and a picture to scrub clean against the clock.
Tutorial
Short lessons, from moving and turning pieces to leaks, flares, mines and multipliers.
Multiplayer
Versus and co-op
Survival
The same pieces for everyone. Every lake you burn rains on the other boards. Last board standing wins.
Broadside
Every buoy is a pirate ship, and every ship fires on the other boards.
Watermark Race
The same picture printed on every board. Flood it and burn it clean; first board clean wins.
Co-op
Two players on one board with both pieces falling at once, or four as two crews.
Online versus
Boards across the wire. Coming later.
Up to four boards on one screen. Drop in with L-Shift R-Shift or any gamepad, and computer players fill the empty seats.
Screenshots
From the game
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The title: the letters bob in the sea below the cliffs.
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Local versus: last board standing wins.
