Scaldbloom

A flamingo feeds on a shore that boils at dawn. Swipe to step one plate. That's the whole control — no buttons, no menus, one thumb. The catch is where the food is. Algae only grows under a plate that has already started to lift, and a lifting plate is one that is about to split open and drop you into the water. The longer you stand on it, the more you eat. Stand still on cold ground and you are perfectly safe and perfectly starving. So every point is the same question: how long do you let it cook? ONE SWIPE, ONE STEP Flick up, down, left or right. The bird takes a single step. Nothing else to learn — you will understand the game in four seconds and still be arguing with it on run thirty. THE FLOOR IS THE ENEMY Nothing chases you. The crust itself heats on its own clock, plate by plate, and it always tells you before it kills you. Every death is one you saw coming and chose to stand through. GREED IS THE SCORE Eat early and you get a crumb. Eat late and you get a meal. Leave it one beat too long and you get the water. Chain your takes for a multiplier and the shore starts reading like a timing puzzle you can actually get good at. IT NEVER STOPS HEATING Plates dome faster the longer you survive. The escape you could make comfortably at thirty seconds is a coin flip at ninety. A SHORE WORTH LOOKING AT Hand-built in a natural-history-plate style: flat gouache colour, a pale soda crust, one crimson bird, and jade blooms rising under the cracks. No neon, no clutter. No ads. No in-app purchases. No timers asking you to come back tomorrow. Free, offline, and endless. How long do you let it cook?