We're Tidal Teacup. Our first game, Sweetheart, We're Infested, is a pixel art roguelike romcom about keeping a terrible business afloat.
2 cm: first game
Keep a wreck flying. Beam down to infested worlds. Try not to fall for your new partner.
Vacuum bugs. Dodge missiles. Deliver a baby star that eats light bulbs. A pixel art roguelike romcom with real-time-with-pause ship battles, infested away missions and an ex who remembers every failed run. Keep the Missus flying. She's sensitive.
3 cm: trailers
4 cm: gameplay
Pause real-time battles to set power, move crew and line up a volley. Pop shields, jam systems or sweep decks with beams. Dodge every shot in flight. The Missus appreciates attention.
Beam Vega and Bram across and take a ship by hand, or pound it apart from range with anything from a Bug Zapper to Big Bertha. Bram takes the credit either way.
Beam into fogged mines, farms and derelicts. Vacuum creatures for bounties, stun the big ones with Lola, and watch the swarm clock. That extra room might cost you an employee.
An interceptor can arrive mid-mission. Defend the ship above and the team below. Spend gun charge on orbital strikes. Carry downed hires home. Nobody budgeted for this.
Upgrade your questionable business. Shop for weapons, gadgets and crew. Moustache Wax speeds up the Vac-Gauntlet. Cardboard Bram takes a creature hit. Finally, a colleague who never recites poetry.
Choose your next problem. Plot branching routes through three sectors, answer hostile hails and face three bosses. One event asks whether Wick should replace a fuse. His qualification: he ate the previous fuse.
5 cm: the crew
6 cm: screenshots
Real-time ship fights. Pause any time. Take full credit.
The Missus politely declines an entire volley.
Pest control has escalated.
Pests below. Hostiles above. Your shift just got worse.
Buy barely used guns. Ask barely any questions.
The biggest pest on your books has engines.
Sweetheart, there is a cow. In space.
Her ex brought a flagship. Then he let himself in.
Resistance is a separate fine.
Sweet old lady. Very armed.
Bram calls it a spa day. Vega calls it a fire.
Plot your next terrible business decision.
7 cm: the studio
Tidal Teacup is an independent game studio making funny, character-driven pixel art games. We like unlikely partnerships, difficult situations, and people who make both worse.
Sweetheart, We're Infested is our first game. It's coming to Steam, with wishlists opening soon.
8 cm: press
Logos, key art, Steam capsules, and 12 screenshots. All artwork is pixel art. Please scale by whole numbers without smoothing.