← High Tide Layer by Layer
High Tide

High Tide 2024

7.4 /10
BGG rating
#5936
BGG rank
1.1
Weight
2
Players
2
Best at
5–15
Minutes
8
Age

Location

Sign in to see where your copy sits: the shelf, drawn, and how the box sits on it.

My Copy & Notes

Sign in to see your copy here: the edition, when you added it, and what you paid.

My Notes

Notes are private to their writer. Sign in to keep yours here.

My Prints for High Tide

All 1 on LayerUp

Sign in to see the prints you marked Printed for this game, the insert in the box first.

Expansions & Promos

No expansions or promos on record for this game.

About the Game

Waves come in, sweeping up the ocean floor.

High Tide is a strategic stacking game for two players inspired by mutualistic relationships found in the natural world. The game is played without a board on any flat surface with 19 wooden hexagon tiles: 7 tiles for each player and 5 neutral tiles. The tiles are randomized in a grid at the start of each round, leading to over six million different starting positions — and millions more unique and pretty end states!

Players take turns moving one tile of their own color or a neutral color. The twist: A tile must stack onto another tile so that it is higher up than it was before. You want to cover your opponent's tiles and have the most uncovered tiles by the end of the round. When a player cannot take a legal move, the round ends.

The first player to win three rounds wins the game.

—description from the designer

Filed Under

Categories
Mechanics
BGG ratings
356 · geek rating 5.72
BGG data
refreshed Sep 7, 2026

Matching filament