Free games like The Tide
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Tide, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to The Tide — no purchase or trial window. 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 alternative to The Tide — no purchase or trial window. 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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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to The Tide — no purchase or trial window. 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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missed messages.
Free-to-play alternative to The Tide — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with The Tide.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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NGU IDLE
Free-to-play alternative to The Tide — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to The Tide — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to The Tide — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tide.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Free-to-play alternative to The Tide — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with The Tide.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.