Games like Perfect Tides
If Perfect Tides is your kind of game, the closest matches are Perfect Tides: Station to Station, Return to Monkey Island and The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its captures teenage loneliness authentically, missable interactions deepen replayability and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Perfect Tides: Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called island paradise.
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Perfect Tides: Station to Station
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides.
Top pick for Perfect Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex relationships while attempting to find your place in the world.
Return to Monkey Island
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Perfect Tides.
Second-strongest match for Perfect Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides.
Third-strongest match for Perfect Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
Ghost on the Shore
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides.
Ranked #4 for Perfect Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
Torn Away
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Perfect Tides.
Ranked #5 for Perfect Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels. Help little Asya find her way home in the middle of war.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares point and click exploration and an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides.
Ranked #6 for Perfect Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
Endling - Extinction is Forever
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Perfect Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
As the last mother fox on Earth, your cubs need all your care to survive in a merciless world that slowly destroys itself. You have to help them, teach them and save them. And you should never forget that extinction is forever – in the real world and in this 2023 BAFTA award winning experience.
and Roger
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Perfect Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
It was a morning like all others, until she realized her dad wasn't home. In his place, a stranger who speaks nonsense and insists she "takes her medicine". Who is he? Where is dad?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Perfect Tides
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Voodoo Detective
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides.
Reviewers of Perfect Tides cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Do you like adventure, comedy, and dime store detective novels? Then boy have we got the game for you! Join Voodoo Detective in a hand-drawn, point-and-click noir where you’ll pit your wits and hoodoo know-how against a sinister evil that’s taken root on beautiful Zo Wanga Isle.
Night in the Woods
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides.
Reviewers of Perfect Tides cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
Sierra Madre: The Wild West
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides.
Reviewers of Perfect Tides cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Sierra Madre: The Wild West is a western, open world first person shooter survival game set in the 1870s. You play as a U.S. Marshall in the Wild West. Hunt outlaws, save the locals, and do whatever it takes to survive in your quest to rid the Wild West of injustice.
Persona 5 Royal
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides.
Reviewers of Perfect Tides cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Don the mask and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they stage grand heists, infiltrate the minds of the corrupt, and make them change their ways!
Station to Station
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides.
Reviewers of Perfect Tides cross-mention this title as a similar play.
‘Station to Station’ is a minimalist & relaxing game about building railway connections. Grab your conductor’s hat and bring the voxel-art world to life through the magic of trains!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Perfect Tides at current Steam store prices.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Perfect Tides on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Perfect Tides on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Perfect Tides on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Perfect Tides on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Perfect Tides on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Perfect Tides on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Perfect Tides on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under Perfect Tides on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Return to Monkey Island
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Perfect Tides.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
Ghost on the Shore
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
Torn Away
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Perfect Tides.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels. Help little Asya find her way home in the middle of war.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares point and click exploration and an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
Endling - Extinction is Forever
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
As the last mother fox on Earth, your cubs need all your care to survive in a merciless world that slowly destroys itself. You have to help them, teach them and save them. And you should never forget that extinction is forever – in the real world and in this 2023 BAFTA award winning experience.
and Roger
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides.
It was a morning like all others, until she realized her dad wasn't home. In his place, a stranger who speaks nonsense and insists she "takes her medicine". Who is he? Where is dad?
Frequently asked about Perfect Tides
- Is Perfect Tides verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Perfect Tides is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Perfect Tides cost?
- Perfect Tides is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Perfect Tides?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Perfect Tides are Perfect Tides: Station to Station, Return to Monkey Island, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
- Who developed Perfect Tides?
- Perfect Tides was developed by Three Bees.
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