Games like Pale Tide
If Pale Tide is your kind of game, the closest matches are Escape From Duckov, Omen and Extinction Zone — 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 Pale Tide: A top-down zombie extraction survival game where you and your dog scavenge resources from deadly infected zones. Rescue survivors, and return to a hidden bunker to upgrade your gear, grow your crew, and prepare your escape before the largest horde ever witnessed floods the region, the Pale Tide.
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Steam players who put hours into Pale Tide 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.
Escape From Duckov
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Top pick for Pale Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Pale Tide.
Escape from Duckov is a PVE indie survival RPG — in a duck's world!. Scavenge for resources, build your hideout, and upgrade your gear in the world of Duckov. Start from nothing and rise to the top. Outwit hostile ducks, survive, or make it out alive.
Omen
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Second-strongest match for Pale Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Pale Tide.
Infiltrate the remnants of a fallen empire, extract valuable loot, establish defenses against hostile fanatics, and unlock the gateway to a dimension of cosmic dread that defies comprehension.
Extinction Zone
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Third-strongest match for Pale Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Pale Tide.
EXTINCTION ZONE is a zombie themed combat action survival game with 2D pixel art environments, puzzles to solve and a conspiracy to unravel.
Disaster Plan Z
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Ranked #4 for Pale Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Pale Tide.
Disaster Plan Z is a hardcore single-player shooting survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Players need to utilize various weapons along with their unique skills, construct different buildings, and continuously upgrade to resist the invasion of countless zombies and mutant creatures.
EMPTY SHELL 2
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Ranked #5 for Pale Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Pale Tide.
Take on the roles of expendable volunteers sent to a forsaken facility on a remote Japanese island. Recover lost data, scavenge for resources, manage your inventory, and endure unspeakable cosmic horrors. In this top-down extraction survival horror, every expedition is a journey back from madness.
Keep Her Safe
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Ranked #6 for Pale Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Pale Tide.
Scavenge by day, defend by night. Gather resources, build and fortify your base in a wasteland ravaged by acid rain, protect the Energy Core from relentless zombie hordes, and work toward completing a rocket project that could end the apocalypse.
Silent Woods
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Ranked #7 for Pale Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Pale Tide.
Silent Woods blends survival, open-world exploration and a deep crafting system to create a heart-pounding experience. How long can you survive in a world where death lurks in every shadow?
Deadline Escape
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Ranked #8 for Pale Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Pale Tide.
Deadline Escape is a Low Poly Extraction Looter Shooter that throws you into a Post-Apocalyptic World. Scavenge for valuable resources, face deadly enemies and fight for your survival as the clock ticks down toward the deadline.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Pale Tide.
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 Action and Adventure with Pale Tide.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Pale Tide.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pale Tide.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Pale Tide.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Pale Tide.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Frequently asked about Pale Tide
- What games are most similar to Pale Tide?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pale Tide are Escape From Duckov, Omen, Extinction Zone.
- Who developed Pale Tide?
- Pale Tide was developed by Aberratic.
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 Pale Tide.
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