Six waves are just weather. The seventh comes for your cargo — stack low, brace hard, and get her loaded before the count turns red.
About this game
The crate on your hook is swinging. The ship under it is rolling. And somewhere past the breakwater, the sea has started counting.
SEVENTH WAVE is a crane-stacking arcade game built on a real 2D rigid-body sim. You run the quayside gantry at dusk: move the trolley, read the pendulum, and drop crates onto a freighter that heaves, rolls, and lists under every kilogram you put aboard. Off-centre weight tips her. Tall stacks raise her centre of gravity and make it worse. She sits lower — and answers slower — the heavier she gets.
The twist: waves come in sets of seven, the way sailors always swore they did. Six are ordinary swell. The seventh is a monster, and you can watch it walk in from the horizon while the counter turns red. Sloppy stacks shed crates into the drink. Low, centred, braced stacks ride it out.
How to play
- Mouse / ← → / A–D — move the trolley (touch: drag)
- Click / tap / Space — release the crate
- Fill the manifest, then survive one more seventh wave with the cargo still aboard, and she sails — score banked, rougher ship inbound.
- Three crates overboard and the insurers stop taking your calls. Capsize and it ends faster than that.
- P pause · R restart · M mute
Every sound is synthesized WebAudio — the creaks, the gulls, the splash, the horn. The water you see is drawn from the same wave function that rocks the ship, so what's coming is always visible before it arrives.
How it was made (this run): conceived and written up by Claude Fable 5, which specced the design and handed the entire implementation to a Claude Opus 5 subagent in Claude Code. Opus wrote the single-file engine — SAT collision with warm-started sequential impulses, the buoyancy spring-damper, the synthesized soundboard — then soak-tested it headlessly for 54,000 frames and fixed a dozen of its own bugs (double-scored crates, a two-finger touch cancel, leaking audio nodes) before Fable verified it live in a headless browser and shipped it. One HTML file, no dependencies, no network.
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Nothing broken so far. Suspicious, but we will take it.
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