Games like NAIRI: Rising Tide
If NAIRI: Rising Tide is your kind of game, the closest matches are Find My Frogs, Botanicula and Gnomdom — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and emotional. 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 NAIRI: Rising Tide: Explore a lively oasis city filled with charming characters, forgotten ruins and ominous conspiracies in the second chapter of NAIRI, a narrative puzzle adventure about Nairi's perilous quest to save her family.
Players who liked NAIRI: Rising Tide also play
Steam players who put hours into NAIRI: Rising Tide also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Find My Frogs
WHY THIS
Top pick for NAIRI: Rising Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Find My Frogs is a cozy hidden object game where you search for frogs and toads in a peaceful, hand-drawn village. Explore charming spots, uncover secrets, and help Uncle Froger gather everyone for a family photo.
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Second-strongest match for NAIRI: Rising Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
Gnomdom
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for NAIRI: Rising Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Gnomdom is a point & click puzzle game where you find little gnomes stuck in various places and help them return to their home.
Koira
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Ranked #4 for NAIRI: Rising Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Save a puppy and embark on a heartwarming, hand-drawn adventure together. Journey to the heart of an enchanted forest, solving puzzles and avoiding hunters to protect your newfound friend.
A Building Full of Cats 2
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Ranked #5 for NAIRI: Rising Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
A Building Full of Cats 2 is a Hidden Object Game where you’ll search for over a thousand hidden cats while also helping the building’s residents with their daily tasks. Can you pet all the cats and make a difference in the lives of the building's residents?
CHUCHEL
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Ranked #6 for NAIRI: Rising Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Nine Noir Lives
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Ranked #7 for NAIRI: Rising Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Stretch your legs, clean your whiskers, and dive into Nine Noir Lives. Enjoy a "point-and-lick" comedy-noir adventure, full of humour, crazy characters, and intriguing locations. Solve challenging puzzles and answer the immortal question: how many things need to be licked to solve a murder in this town?
Find Matt's Cats
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Ranked #8 for NAIRI: Rising Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Go on a scavenger-hunt adventure that spans 84 hand-crafted levels, while getting to know the four friends who struggle to keep their video game studio together.
Reviewers mention these as similar to NAIRI: Rising Tide
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NAIRI: Tower of Shirin
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Reviewers of NAIRI: Rising Tide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Follow Nairi as she uncovers a mysterious conspiracy in this gripping yet family-friendly adventure that is suitable for all ages! NAIRI: Tower of Shirin is a graphic adventure which crafts a rich 'Ghibli' inspired oasis city where animals and humans live side-by-side!
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Quest for Balance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Reviewers of NAIRI: Rising Tide cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Team Avatar is back! Relive the epic adventure of the original Avatar: The Last Airbender series, as you play as Aang and his 8 friends to explore the most unique locations from the series, solve challenging puzzles and experience the most heart touching moments of Aang’s story
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below NAIRI: Rising Tide at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under NAIRI: Rising Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under NAIRI: Rising Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under NAIRI: Rising Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under NAIRI: Rising Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under NAIRI: Rising Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under NAIRI: Rising Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under NAIRI: Rising Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under NAIRI: Rising Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
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.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
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 NAIRI: Rising Tide.
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. Shares Indie with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
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. Shares Indie with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
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 Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
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 Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
Koira
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Save a puppy and embark on a heartwarming, hand-drawn adventure together. Journey to the heart of an enchanted forest, solving puzzles and avoiding hunters to protect your newfound friend.
A Building Full of Cats 2
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
A Building Full of Cats 2 is a Hidden Object Game where you’ll search for over a thousand hidden cats while also helping the building’s residents with their daily tasks. Can you pet all the cats and make a difference in the lives of the building's residents?
CHUCHEL
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with NAIRI: Rising Tide.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Frequently asked about NAIRI: Rising Tide
- Does NAIRI: Rising Tide run on Steam Deck?
- NAIRI: Rising Tide is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does NAIRI: Rising Tide cost?
- NAIRI: Rising Tide is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to NAIRI: Rising Tide?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NAIRI: Rising Tide are Find My Frogs, Botanicula, Gnomdom.
- Who developed NAIRI: Rising Tide?
- NAIRI: Rising Tide was developed by HomeBearStudio and published by Hound Picked Games.
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