MORSE

MORSE puts you in charge of repelling a naval invasion using nothing but two controls: Morse and Artillery. You’ll tap out dots and dashes to navigate a shifting grid of letters and numbers, then unleash artillery strikes that light up the darkness and reveal enemy ships hiding just beyond your reach. It sounds simple but there’s real depth here, every wave teaches you new letters, tests your timing and pushes your reconnaissance and firepower to the limit.

Between waves you’ll pick upgrade cards to strengthen your arsenal, choosing with a dot or a dash, and build out a blockade of sea mines to catch anything that slips past your guns. As the nights wear on the grid grows, new isograms appear and tougher German vessels emerge from the water, so you’re always adapting and never quite safe.

MORSE plays great with mouse, keyboard or Steam Deck, but if you really want the authentic experience, players have been building their own telegraph keys to use with it, everything from proper hardware to a teaspoon. Whether you’re after a frantic campaign, a skirmish mode to sharpen your telegraphy, or an Expert Mode to really test yourself, there’s a lot packed into this one. It’s a rare thing, a game that’s genuinely teaching you something real while keeping you on the edge of your seat.