Shoalforge: Tactics Puzzle

The shark is two tiles away and your shoal is scattered. Tighten up or lose someone. Shoalforge is a turn-based tactics game about keeping a school of fish alive. You command every fish on a grid, one move at a time, against predators that hunt on their own rules. Three fish touching each other form a shoal, and no jaw can break a shoal. Split up to squeeze through a gap and you are exposed. That is the whole tension, and it never lets go. Twelve hand-built levels take you from a quiet bay to a walled reef gate. Currents drag units across the board at the end of every turn. Kelp beds hide you from hunters who cannot follow you in. Sharks prowl two tiles a turn toward the nearest straggler and circle wide around a tight formation. Barracuda lunge three tiles down a straight lane and cannot turn. Rock walls turn open water into corridors. Each level hands you a new problem: get enough…