Games like The Tide
Below are 29 hand-picked alternatives to The Tide for fans of indie, adventure, casual, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in The Tide also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks, more from Dexter Studios. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About The Tide: One day, strange fish began to appear! A new disaster thriller about the struggle between human vs. fish.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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The Tide Intro
Top pick for The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
'The Tide Intro' is only the beginning. Stay alert for 'The Tide' coming up soon this year!
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Duck Season
Second-strongest match for The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
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...
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Nevrosa: Escape
Third-strongest match for The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
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.
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Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time
Ranked #4 for The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Tide.
A new mysterious enemy threatens to tear apart the universe and only you can stop them! Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time lets players embark on an adventure through space and time. Travel across the universe, visit alien locations, pilot the TARDIS and solve the mystery of the controlling force behind the Reality Virus.
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Red Matter
Ranked #5 for The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
Red Matter is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure game set during a dystopian sci-fi Cold War. Take on the role of Agent Epsilon, an astronaut of the Atlantic Union dispatched to an abandoned Volgravian moon base on a faraway planet. Your mission: to investigate a shady top secret research project.
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Exorcism of the Legion (Last Rites) DELISTED
Ranked #6 for The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Tide.
Exorcism of the Legion (Last Rites) Each chapter features a unique demonic entity that will test your courage and resolve.
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theBlu
Ranked #7 for The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
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.
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Arizona Sunshine®
Ranked #8 for The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Tide at current Steam store prices.
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Garry's Mod
Priced ~83% under The Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The 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.
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Stardew Valley
Priced ~50% under The Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Tide.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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Lethal Company
Priced ~67% under The Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
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Hollow Knight
Priced ~50% under The Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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People Playground
Priced ~67% under The Tide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Tide.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The 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.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The 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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Tide.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The 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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Tide.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The 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
More from Dexter Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Dexter Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
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VR TOON Help Me (살려주세요)
Another title from Dexter Studios, the studio behind The Tide. Shares Indie and Casual with The Tide.
"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.
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From The Earth (프롬 더 어스)
Another title from Dexter Studios, the studio behind The Tide. Shares Indie and Casual with The Tide.
"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.
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Follow the White Rabbit VR (화이트래빗)
Another title from Dexter Studios, the studio behind The Tide. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
"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.
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The Tide Intro
Another title from Dexter Studios, the studio behind The Tide. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
'The Tide Intro' is only the beginning. Stay alert for 'The Tide' coming up soon this year!
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The Choice VR (선택VR)
Another title from Dexter Studios, the studio behind The Tide. Shares Indie and Casual with The Tide.
DEXTER STUDIOS' 3RD VR WEBTOON! A CONJOINED TWINS, HA-EUN AND YE-EUN, BORN WITH A SHARED HEART! WHO WILL … WIN THE HEART?
Frequently asked about The Tide
- How much does The Tide cost?
- The Tide is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Tide?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Tide are The Tide Intro, Duck Season, Nevrosa: Escape.
- Who developed The Tide?
- The Tide was developed by Dexter Studios.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Tide.
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