Games like Waking Tides
If Waking Tides is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Nameless City, Transient: Extended Edition and Butcher of the North — picked from the ranked list below. 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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Players who liked Waking Tides also play
Steam players who put hours into Waking Tides 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.
The Nameless City
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Top pick for Waking Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Waking Tides.
Narrative-driven first person horror adventure inspired by Lovecraft's short novel "The Nameless City". Explore the ruins of a city that some say they are older than humanity itself. While you delve deeper into the ancient buildings, reality and visions blend into an indistinct haze.
Transient: Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Waking Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Waking Tides.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
Butcher of the North
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Waking Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Waking Tides.
You never received any New Year's gifts. This year, you decided to take what is yours. After tracking Santa down by his IP address, you head to his lair to take what is rightfully yours.
The Wellmonts Case
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Ranked #4 for Waking Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Waking Tides.
The Wellmonts Case is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1993, Northern Maine. As a private detective, you explore the abandoned Wellmont farm, search for clues, photograph unsettling evidence, and uncover the truth behind a family's unexplained disappearance.
NIGHTSLINK
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Ranked #5 for Waking Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Waking Tides.
You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.
Alone in the Dark
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Ranked #6 for Waking Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Waking Tides.
Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.
Summer of '58
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Ranked #7 for Waking Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Waking Tides.
In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.
In My Head
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Ranked #8 for Waking Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Waking Tides.
You have been sent photographs of a place where, according to rumors, an artifact of an ancient civilization is hidden... Do you dare to go there?!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Waking Tides at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Waking Tides on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Waking Tides.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Waking Tides on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Waking Tides.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Waking Tides on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Waking Tides.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Waking Tides on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Waking Tides.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Waking Tides on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Waking Tides.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Waking Tides on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Waking Tides.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Waking Tides on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Waking Tides.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Waking Tides on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Waking Tides.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Waking Tides.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Waking Tides.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Waking Tides.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Waking Tides.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Waking Tides.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Waking Tides.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Waking Tides
- How much does Waking Tides cost?
- Waking Tides is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Waking Tides?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Waking Tides are The Nameless City, Transient: Extended Edition, Butcher of the North.
- Who developed Waking Tides?
- Waking Tides was developed by AirshipFx.
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 Waking Tides.
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