Games like Tidebound
If Tidebound is your kind of game, the closest matches are Freshly Folded: Laundry Shop, Perfume Atelier and Freshly Caught — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Tidebound: Chill, catch, sell, upgrade! Tidebound is a fishing game with a relaxing, cozy atmosphere where you upgrade your boat, and sail further to fish for more expensive and exotic sea animals. Casual yet engaging, the game offers a sense of progress with tons of equipment and hundreds of species to catch.
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Steam players who put hours into Tidebound 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.
Freshly Folded: Laundry Shop
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Top pick for Tidebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tidebound.
Run your own dry cleaning shop in a charming, cozy small town. Wash, dry, and press clothes to perfection, serve quirky customers, invest in new machines and upgrades for faster service, and stay organized to carefully complete each order. Mend rips, remove stains, and more.
Perfume Atelier
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Second-strongest match for Tidebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tidebound.
Blend fragrances in your cozy perfume atelier! 🌸 Craft unique scents by mixing essences, design beautiful bottles, and try to sell your creations to curious customers. Decorate your workshop, unlock new recipes, and grow your reputation in the art of fragrance.
Freshly Caught
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Third-strongest match for Tidebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tidebound.
Catch fish, arrange your stall, and run a cozy neighborhood fish stand by the water. 🎣 Set up your stall, serve customers by finding the right fish for them, upgrade your gear, and grow your tiny seaside business one catch new and rare fish!
Ship, Inc.
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Ranked #4 for Tidebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tidebound.
Run a wholesome shipping business! Ship, Inc. is a cozy job simulator where you are a packaging employee in a parcel shipment company. Follow the shipment orders, choose the package size, and prepare parcels. Upgrade your office, deliver orders safely and quickly!
Tiny Patisserie
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Ranked #5 for Tidebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tidebound.
Run your own cozy pastry shop. 🍰 Spot what customers are craving, combine and box up sweet treats, and jump into hands-on minigames for every order. Unlock new recipes, upgrade your tools, and grow your tiny shop into a thriving neighborhood favorite.
Tabletop Inc.
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Ranked #6 for Tidebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tidebound.
Start a tabletop game company in your bedroom workshop! Develop unique genres and themes, assemble the game boxes yourself, pay your bills, hire your friends, upgrade your workshop, and design even better games in this cozy management tycoon.
Cozy Cleaner
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Ranked #7 for Tidebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Tidebound.
Cozy Cleaner is a relaxing cleaning game where you tidy and organize rooms messed up by playful cats. Pick up clutter, wipe away dirt, and bring order back to every space for a calming, refreshing experience with cozy soundtracks.
Recycling Shift
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Ranked #8 for Tidebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tidebound.
Work at a recycling facility! In this tactile cozy job simulator, sort discarded items into categories, process them into raw material and sell valuable items for money. Could be trash or treasure! Upgrade your workflow, sort and process efficiently.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tidebound.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidebound.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidebound.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tidebound.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidebound.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Tidebound.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidebound.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidebound.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Frequently asked about Tidebound
- What games are most similar to Tidebound?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tidebound are Freshly Folded: Laundry Shop, Perfume Atelier, Freshly Caught.
- Who developed Tidebound?
- Tidebound was developed by Tinymice Entertainment and published by Rogue Duck Interactive, Gamersky Games.
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 Tidebound.
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