Single-player games like The Tide
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Tide, 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 Intro
Single-player alternative to The Tide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
Single-player alternative to The Tide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
Single-player alternative to The Tide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
Single-player alternative to The Tide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
Single-player alternative to The Tide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
Single-player alternative to The Tide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
Single-player alternative to The Tide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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®
Single-player alternative to The Tide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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VR TOON Help Me (살려주세요)
Single-player alternative to The Tide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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)
Single-player alternative to The Tide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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)
Single-player alternative to The Tide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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 Choice VR (선택VR)
Single-player alternative to The Tide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?