POLDER
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Simulation, Strategy. Free.
POLDER is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
POLDER is a free browser incremental where the water is the ground you are standing on. You are granted a salt fen, an eight year lease and no sea bank at all. Every cell of the fen holds a real depth of water that flows toward the lowest ground beside it, every tick, so a mill drains its own neighbourhood and the map dries in the shape you caused. The progress bar IS the map. Shut the sea out first.
Then cut the ditches, raise the mills, get the salt out of the ground and put a crop in it before the season closes. What you are actually managing Water as terrain. A simulated field that relaxes toward the lowest head every tick, against a sea boundary that moves with the tide. Where you cut the ditches is the whole game; a mill with no ditches feeding it sits there pumping a puddle. Salt.
It only leaves a field while fresh water is moving through it, so ground pumped bone dry keeps what it has. Drying too hard is a mistake you can make. Peat that sinks. Dry ground subsides. The land you won gets harder to keep. A mill holds a level, not a switch, and one mill sets the water table of everything around it.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.