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Games like Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game

If Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Revenant Prince, Game Dev Tycoon and Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine — 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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About Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game: Test your timing and your patience in this unique casual puzzle game. Set over the backdrop of retro minimalist art style you can choose from 3 different game modes. Play your way through 50 stages of increasing difficult puzzles in Stage Mode. See how fast you really are in Speed Mode.

2015StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDWindowsby Fingertip Games UK
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Steam players who put hours into Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game 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 Revenant Prince

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    After gaining the ability to control time, Troy sets off on an adventure, guided by a mysterious voice in an attempt to fulfill his long-time - potentially misleading destiny: saving the world! Kill or show mercy, the choice is yours. Your actions lead to certain consequences and outcomes that cannot be undone!

    2020ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Game Dev Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Plebby Quest: The Crusades

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”

    2020ActionStrategyIndie3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Tooth and Tail

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Bridge

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

    2013StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Tumblestone

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Train Valley

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!

    2015ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Insaniquarium Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.

    2006Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game

How much does Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game cost?
Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game are The Revenant Prince, Game Dev Tycoon, Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine.
Who developed Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game?
Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game was developed by Fingertip Games UK.

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 Tick: The Time Based Puzzle Game.

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