# Polderland: Wind & Water — Reclaiming our land from sea

> Reclaiming our land from sea (iPhone/iPad app by Alper Unlu.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/polderland-wind-and-water/id6811099356 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Alper Unlu](https://appshunter.io/developer/6789895935)
- Category: Games, Simulation, Strategy
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 32 MB
- Languages: American English, Dutch
- Released: 2026-10-29
- Data updated: 2026-11-03

## What is Polderland?

The polder floor lies below the sea. A ring of dike is the only thing keeping the North Sea out of your fields, and it will not hold by itself.

Polderland is a strategy game about the problem the Netherlands has never stopped solving. Rain collects in the lowest ground. The tide runs twice a day. The sea rises a little every year. Your job is to keep a village dry until the end of the scenario — and to work out, before the water does, which link in your defences is about to fail.

WATER THAT ACTUALLY FLOWS

Every tile has a ground level in metres and a depth of water standing on it, and water moves from higher surfaces to lower ones. Nothing is faked. Flood your polder and you will watch it pool in the low fields first, exactly where the map told you it would.

THE CHAIN THAT KEEPS YOU DRY

land - pump - canal - outlet - sea

• DIKES raise the crest the sea has to climb. Build on one again to raise it further.
• CANALS give the water somewhere to go. Each one costs more to dig than the last.
• PUMPS lift standing water off the fields into the canal. They need a canal in reach.
• OUTLETS empty the canal into the sea whatever the tide is doing. Each one costs more than the last, and too few stalls every pump at once.

Break any link and the polder starts filling. A canal with nowhere to drain backs up and stalls your pumps. A pump with no canal is a monument.

STORMS COME FROM A DIRECTION

You get two days' warning and a compass bearing. Only the stretch of coast facing the wind takes the full surge, so reinforcing the right side — and not the whole ring — is the difference between a wet week and a breach. An overtopped dike takes stress; a dike under enough stress gives way, and then you are paying to close a hole instead of raising a crest.

Ordinary rain is a steady drain on your pumps. A storm drops six times as much. Size the fleet for the storm, not for a quiet week.

MONEY RUNS OUT BEFORE THE WATER DOES

Dry houses pay tax. Flooded ones pay nothing and lose condition every day they stand in water, until they are gone for good. Pumps, dikes, outlets and canals all cost upkeep. Most polders are not lost to the sea — they are lost to a treasury that could no longer run the pumps.

FOUR SCENARIOS

• De Beemster, 1612 — a calm spring in a young polder. Learn the trade.
• Winter van 1665 — a gale every fortnight off the North Sea.
• Haarlemmermeer 1852 — steam drains the lake, and every station burns coal.
• Dollard 1877 — endless: grow new land out of the mud and push the coast into the sea. How many hectares can you win?

DRAWN A PIXEL AT A TIME

Every sprite, every interface panel, the typeface and all the music and sound are generated by the game itself from a single 48-colour palette. No advertisements, no in-app purchases, no accounts, no tracking, and nothing to download after you install it. It works on a plane.

Plays either way up, on iPhone and iPad, in English and Dutch.

## Is Polderland safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Polderland.

## Is Polderland legit?

Polderland: Wind & Water appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Polderland is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-10-30

No release notes.

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