Games like Bad Tides
If Bad Tides is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nokai, Delphiniums Rise and Cloudsea — 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 Bad Tides: BAD TIDES is a chaotic 4 player co-op pirate adventure! Explore the seven seas, dive for treasure, upgrade your trustworthy vessel, and fight creatures of myth.
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Nokai
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Top pick for Bad Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Bad Tides.
Sail north alone or with friends through dangerous waters, chart uncharted islands, and embark on an unforgettable voyage. The farther you venture, the stranger and deadlier the world becomes. The truth lies beyond the horizon.
Delphiniums Rise
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Second-strongest match for Bad Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Bad Tides.
WHAT IS DELPHINIUM'S RISE?Delphinium's Rise is a full-loot open-world MMORPG set in a brutal living Arthurian realm where every decision carries real weight. Five rival factions. A fully player-driven economy. No safety nets once the gate closes behind you.This is a world that punishes the careless and rewards the skilled.NO CLASSES.
Cloudsea
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Third-strongest match for Bad Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Bad Tides.
Cloudsea is indie open world RPG game set in the clouds of the world of Cloudsea. Explore the floating islands in airships, solve quests, gather resources, craft items, trade, and fight in airship-to-airship and melee combat!
LARP With Your Friends
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Ranked #4 for Bad Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Bad Tides.
A chaotic 1–4 player co-op RPG where you cast spells with your voice, fight with physics-driven weapons, and adventure up a dangerous mountain with your friends to slay a princess and save the dragon.
Odyssey Island
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Ranked #5 for Bad Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Bad Tides.
Odyssey Island is a punchy action RPG. Fight dangerous beasts, go fishing, argue about the meaning of family, commit crimes or simply chill on deck with your new-found crew.
Arcane Waters
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Ranked #6 for Bad Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Bad Tides.
Arcane Waters is an open world pixel pirate adventure. Fight other pirates, monsters and players! When you need a break, tend to your farm, craft new equipment, or trade in distant lands. The choice is yours in this vast piratey world.
Phantom Containment
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Ranked #7 for Bad Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Bad Tides.
Survive the Planet, a massive open-world containment world filled with dangerous entities, anomaly outbreaks, hostile factions, and hidden secrets. Build, investigate, scavenge, and uncover the truth behind an experiment that never ended.
Uncursed
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Ranked #8 for Bad Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Bad Tides.
Be Uncursed like every soul, Sent to save them, that’s your goal. With a crew or on your own, Venture through dungeons unknown. On Isles and seas, adventures await, With the perils that won't abate. But when night falls, hurry back quick; While the light fades, shadows grow thick.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bad Tides.
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 with Bad Tides.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bad 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bad Tides.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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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.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bad Tides.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bad Tides.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about Bad Tides
- Does Bad Tides have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Bad Tides supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Bad Tides?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bad Tides are Nokai, Delphiniums Rise, Cloudsea.
- Who developed Bad Tides?
- Bad Tides was developed by Crouton Games.
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