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Single-player games like The Tide Intro

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Tide Intro, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.

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Ranked picks

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    The Tide — Steam game cover

    The Tide

    Single-player alternative to The Tide Intro — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide Intro.

    One day, strange fish began to appear! A new disaster thriller about the struggle between human vs. fish.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Duck Season — Steam game cover

    Duck Season

    Single-player alternative to The Tide Intro — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide Intro.

    The game of your dreams just dropped, DUCK SEASON, a hunter with ridiculous graphics. Luckily, it's summer vacation and Mom just surprised you with a one day rental of it! Unfortunately, as you binge play it becomes apparent that all is not right with Duck Season...

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    theBlu — Steam game cover

    theBlu

    Single-player alternative to The Tide Intro — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide Intro.

    Experience the wonder and majesty of the ocean through a series of habitats and come face to face with some of the most awe inspiring species on the planet.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Accounting+ — Steam game cover

    Accounting+

    Single-player alternative to The Tide Intro — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide Intro.

    Accounting+ is a NIGHTMARE ADVENTURE COMEDY. Experience classic virtual reality gameplay: clean up your office, take the battery out of the cooling machine, play the skeleton xylophone, and summon thousands upon thousands of demons.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Operation Warcade VR — Steam game cover

    Operation Warcade VR

    Single-player alternative to The Tide Intro — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide Intro.

    Relive the experience of playing the classic war arcade in a totally amazing way, thanks to virtual reality and the innovative immersion system that will make it possible for you to travel inside the video game.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Aeon — Steam game cover

    Aeon

    Single-player alternative to The Tide Intro — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide Intro.

    A primitive god in ancient Greek mythology who controls time, is resurrected in the virtual world, Inspired by "The Matrix" and "Deadpool" (remember,the slower you move the slow time goes)

    2017ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RollerCoaster VR Universe — Steam game cover

    RollerCoaster VR Universe

    Single-player alternative to The Tide Intro — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide Intro.

    Virtual Reality Roller Coasters: Visit dinosaurs forest, medieval castle, space, underwater, horror, micro-world and city environment.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nevrosa: Escape — Steam game cover

    Nevrosa: Escape

    Single-player alternative to The Tide Intro — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide Intro.

    Nevrosa is an escape room game with horror and action elements, where you are trying to find your way out of laboratory through solving puzzles while being locked in with a strange creature. Mystical machines, old family curse and various endings depending on your ways of play.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    VR TOON Help Me (살려주세요) — Steam game cover

    VR TOON Help Me (살려주세요)

    Single-player alternative to The Tide Intro — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Tide Intro.

    "Why didn't you open the door back then?" Originated by ‘DEY-Horror Channel”, which is one of the most popular Naver web-comic in Korea. ‘VR TOON HELP ME” is the unique horror VR web-comic, you can feel like you are in the web-comic’s 3D space.

    2018IndieCasual5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    From The Earth (프롬 더 어스) — Steam game cover

    From The Earth (프롬 더 어스)

    Single-player alternative to The Tide Intro — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Tide Intro.

    "A Journey to the space to find the heartwarming love between father and daughter" - An astronaut father spends his time with his lovely daughter, 'Hae-mi' before he embarks on journey to the universe. One day, he wakes up in the space and unexpectedly comes across aliens. But the truth is, whom aliens actually met is his soul.

    2019IndieCasual6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Follow the White Rabbit VR (화이트래빗) — Steam game cover

    Follow the White Rabbit VR (화이트래빗)

    Single-player alternative to The Tide Intro — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide Intro.

    "Experience the world of colorful, tumbling down the rabbit hole with Alice" - Inspired by the 1865's classical English novel, 'Alice in Wonderland' , an ordinary high school girl from Korea takes a journey to a strange land with a white rabbit, in search for long lost key from her childhood.

    2019IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Choice VR (선택VR) — Steam game cover

    The Choice VR (선택VR)

    Single-player alternative to The Tide Intro — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Tide Intro.

    DEXTER STUDIOS' 3RD VR WEBTOON! A CONJOINED TWINS, HA-EUN AND YE-EUN, BORN WITH A SHARED HEART! WHO WILL … WIN THE HEART?

    2021IndieCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →