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Games like Perfect Tides: Station to Station

If Perfect Tides: Station to Station is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Night Train, Perfect Tides and Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its evokes early 2000s nostalgia, atmospheric and contemplative. 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.

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About Perfect Tides: Station to Station: A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex relationships while attempting to find your place in the world.

2026IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOSby Three Bees
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Evokes early 2000s nostalgiaMara whitefish is a fully realized protagonistResearch and inspiration mechanics feel organicAtmosphericContemplativeMelancholic

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Steam players who put hours into Perfect Tides: Station to Station 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.

  1. The Last Night Train

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Perfect Tides: Station to Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    A story-driven puzzle adventure about Ovid searching for Thera, his love who vanished aboard a train where the night never ends—but what if she was never the one he needed to find?

    2027IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Perfect Tides

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Second-strongest match for Perfect Tides: Station to Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called island paradise.

    2022Adventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Third-strongest match for Perfect Tides: Station to Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Last Time I Saw You

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Ranked #4 for Perfect Tides: Station to Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Closer the Distance

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Ranked #5 for Perfect Tides: Station to Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.

    2024IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. SEASON: A letter to the future

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Ranked #6 for Perfect Tides: Station to Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Goodnight Universe

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Ranked #7 for Perfect Tides: Station to Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Procession to Calvary

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Ranked #8 for Perfect Tides: Station to Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.

    2020IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Perfect Tides: Station to Station at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Perfect Tides

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called island paradise.

    2022Adventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Last Time I Saw You

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. SEASON: A letter to the future

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Procession to Calvary

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

    Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.

    2020IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Perfect Tides: Station to Station

Does Perfect Tides: Station to Station run on Steam Deck?
Perfect Tides: Station to Station 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 Perfect Tides: Station to Station cost?
Perfect Tides: Station to Station is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Perfect Tides: Station to Station?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Perfect Tides: Station to Station are The Last Night Train, Perfect Tides, Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged.
Who developed Perfect Tides: Station to Station?
Perfect Tides: Station to Station was developed by Three Bees.

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 Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

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