Games like Tidewrack
If Tidewrack is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chocolate Factory, Occupy Mars: The Game and Windrose — 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 Tidewrack: A few logs, one harpoon, no land in sight. Pull driftwood from the sea, turn your raft into a floating town, and rise from lone survivor to leader of a colony. Dive to the ocean floor. Raiders strike at night, sharks circle, and somewhere out there, a leviathan is waiting.
Players who liked Tidewrack also play
Steam players who put hours into Tidewrack 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.
Chocolate Factory
WHY THIS
Top pick for Tidewrack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Occupy Mars: The Game
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tidewrack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Windrose
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tidewrack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tidewrack.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Sapiens
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Tidewrack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidewrack.
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Escape The Pacific
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Tidewrack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Salt
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Tidewrack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Colony Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Tidewrack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Castle Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Tidewrack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidewrack.
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tidewrack at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Tidewrack on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Tidewrack on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidewrack.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Tidewrack on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Tidewrack on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Tidewrack on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Tidewrack on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tidewrack.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Tidewrack on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tidewrack.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Tidewrack on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tidewrack.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tidewrack.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tidewrack.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
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.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
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.
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More from OverLKD Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by OverLKD Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
SlapGains
WHY THIS
Another title from OverLKD Studio, the studio behind Tidewrack. Shares Indie with Tidewrack.
Train in a neon gym, walk into the arena, slap your way through five leagues. Every rep is on the beat, every slap counts. Your body visibly grows with you: thicker arms, broader shoulders, stronger legs, depending on what you train. Bronze to Diamond. One hit decides it.
PARRYGON
WHY THIS
Another title from OverLKD Studio, the studio behind Tidewrack. Shares Indie with Tidewrack.
Pong, folded into a closed polygon. You hold one run of the wall and every other side belongs to somebody else. Parry inside a tight window to charge the orb. Lose a wall and the arena drops that side for good and rebuilds smaller, so the room closes in on whoever is left.
INKBORN
WHY THIS
Another title from OverLKD Studio, the studio behind Tidewrack. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
You wake up in a comic nobody finished, and an eraser is eating the world from the edge of the page. You have a sketchbook: trace an axe and you are holding an axe. Everything costs ink. Colour the page back in before it is gone. Up to four.
Frequently asked about Tidewrack
- How much does Tidewrack cost?
- Tidewrack is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Tidewrack have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Tidewrack supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Tidewrack?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tidewrack are Chocolate Factory, Occupy Mars: The Game, Windrose.
- Who developed Tidewrack?
- Tidewrack was developed by OverLKD Studio.
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 Tidewrack.
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