Typewave

The game

Words roll in on tsunami waves toward your seaside town — type one to bits and it explodes in a chrome glitch burst before it crests. Every typo splashes back on your seawall, and when the wall cracks the whole synthwave town floods. Boss surges arrive on every fifth wave as one long word. Shot in magenta-and-cyan against a grid horizon with a chrome sun, it is a typing test disguised as a disaster movie.

How to play

• Just type — letters go into the wave closest to shore; completing a word destroys it for points.
• A wrong letter resets the word's progress, breaks your combo, and chips the seawall (-4, or -6 on a boss wave).
• If a wave reaches the seawall it hits for heavy damage (-14, -34 for a boss); the combo meter multiplies your score per word.
• Backspace (or the ⌫ pad key) resets your progress on the current word without penalty.
• P or Esc pauses, Enter/Space (or a click/tap, or the on-screen letter pad on phones) starts and retries.
• Goal: hold the tide through five surges including the boss wave for "Tide Held"; if the seawall breaks, the town floods and the run ends.