Games like Idle Tides
If Idle Tides is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fishing Inc, Chillquarium and Joyquarium — 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 Idle Tides: Idle Tides is an idle incremental where your goal is simple: Catch as many fish as you can. Unlock new boats to automate your fishing, upgrade your fleet, and help the island with this fish overpopulation!
Players who liked Idle Tides also play
Steam players who put hours into Idle 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.
Fishing Inc
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Top pick for Idle Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Tides.
Fishing Inc is a cozy incremental fishing game! Catch fish, earn cash, and unlock powerful skills. Master new ponds, fill your Fish Log with Legendary catches, and become the ultimate angler!
Chillquarium
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Second-strongest match for Idle Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Idle Tides.
Chillquarium is a cozy and relaxing idle game. Buy fish and raise them in real time, then sell them to turn a profit! Customize your aquarium as you progress from a simple starter tank to your dream setup by filling your collection with rare exotic fish and ultra-rare color variants!
Joyquarium
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Third-strongest match for Idle Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Tides.
Joyquarium is a relaxing casual fish-raising game. Buy various cute fry and sell them at a high price after they grow up. With the money you earn, you can purchase aquatic plants, driftwood, scenery stone, etc. to decorate your tank (you can freely adjust the color, size, and position).
NoSlack Pets: Lo-Fi Paws
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Ranked #4 for Idle Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Tides.
A warm and cozy desktop cat companion game. Let Miino keep you company while you work or study, focus with Pomodoro, Lo-Fi, to-do lists, and white noise; collect Headgear and decorations, decorate your room, join the Online Study Room, go fishing, and build your own relaxing desktop space.
Cast n Chill
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Ranked #5 for Idle Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Idle Tides.
Cast n Chill is a relaxing fishing game where you explore serene lakes, rivers, and oceans. Catch rare fish, upgrade your gear and reel in legendary catches - all with your loyal companion by your side.
Luna's Fishing Garden
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Ranked #6 for Idle Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Tides.
Luna's Fishing Garden is a short, cozy fishing and building game. Catch fish, trade it in and create the garden of your dreams by planting new trees, placing water objects and bringing animals to the archipelago.
Tiny Aquarium: Social Fishkeeping
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Ranked #7 for Idle Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Tides.
A happy aquarium that lives at the bottom of your screen! Tiny Aquarium is a social idle simulator that keeps growing, even when offline. Hatch, sell fish, decorate, go fishin’, and visit your friends’ aquariums with bite-sized daily sessions.
Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi
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Ranked #8 for Idle Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Tides.
Welcome to Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi! This is a relaxing and enjoyable idle fishing game that can sit at the bottom or any corner of your screen, allowing you to enjoy a leisurely sea fishing time in your busy life.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle 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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle 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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Tides.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Idle 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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Tides.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Tides.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle Tides.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Idle Tides
- What games are most similar to Idle Tides?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Idle Tides are Fishing Inc, Chillquarium, Joyquarium.
- Who developed Idle Tides?
- Idle Tides was developed by PuYu Dev.
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 Idle Tides.
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