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Titanium Court Merges Match-3 Puzzles with Tower-Defense Gameplay

4/23/2026

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Titanium Court Blends

Titanium Court blends match-3 puzzles with tower-defense combat in a two-phase loop.
Players slide terrain tiles to match three or more, clearing them, granting resources and adding time to a shrinking meter.
In phase two, resources fund defensive and offensive units, workers and spells before the battle proceeds automatically.
Winning a battle moves the player to new maps with boss encounters, while failure resets resources and units for a fresh run.

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Titanium Court Launches

Titanium Court released on April 23, 2026 via Fellow Traveler and was reviewed with a Frogs in a Trenchcoat code.
AP Thomson created the game's writing, art, music, and code, producing a soundtrack likened to a Ventures performance at the Roadhouse in Twin Peaks, subverting solo-dev mythos.
The magic mirror boss labels the player a reader whose consumption spreads a disease among faeries, urging them to leave before Court vanishes.

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Titanium Court Merges

The game blends whimsical faerie culture with modern touches like science, alcohol, and plumbing.
Battles split into a “High Tide” match-3 phase and a “Low Tide” RPG/management phase with jobs like Monarch and Youth.
Players may skip boss fights by watching an unskippable grainy FMV musical by AP Thomson that satirizes consumerism, likened to a Paul Banks-in-Ween Salmon Dance.

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Titanium Court Blends

Titanium Court blends match-3 puzzles with tower-defense combat in a two-phase loop.
Players slide terrain tiles to match three or more, clearing them, granting resources and adding time to a shrinking meter.
In phase two, resources fund defensive and offensive units, workers and spells before the battle proceeds automatically.
Winning a battle moves the player to new maps with boss encounters, while failure resets resources and units for a fresh run.

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