Games like Tidewell
If Tidewell is your kind of game, the closest matches are Patchy, Little Sheep Valley – Cozy ranch-builder and Planet Zoo 2 — 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 Tidewell: Restore a fading seaside town as its newly elected mayor. Answer villagers’ petitions, reclaim neglected plots, shape the shoreline, balance taxes and happiness, and build a cozy cove that feels unmistakably yours.
Players who liked Tidewell also play
Steam players who put hours into Tidewell 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.
Patchy
WHY THIS
Top pick for Tidewell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidewell.
Patchy is a little robot who lives on your desktop. He fishes, gardens, cooks, catches bugs, and mostly functions without you. He'll sit back, watch movies and react to your local weather. If he is angry he will grab your cursor and nudge your panels around until you give him some attention.
Little Sheep Valley – Cozy ranch-builder
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tidewell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tidewell.
Tend to a flock of sheep and build your perfect Mediterranean farm in this cozy ranch-builder! Decorate, expand, and create the perfect home for your fluffy friends. Yes, you can cuddle them.
Planet Zoo 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tidewell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tidewell.
Build a wilder world in Planet Zoo 2. Create distinctive zoos around the globe filled with awe-inspiring animals, including fully aquatic and flying species, before taking your experience beyond the zoo to release your animals into expansive Wildlife Reserves.
Metal Detector Island
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Tidewell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidewell.
A cozy first-person metal-detecting adventure where you explore an island, follow signals, dig up buried chests, sell or collect your finds, upgrade your gear and unlock new areas in search of rarer treasures.
Readerpet
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Ranked #5 for Tidewell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidewell.
Grimalkin is a small pixel cat who believes you should be reading. Log your books, grow a garden where every plant is a story you finished, and let him keep you company — in the game, or docked at the bottom of your screen while you work. Free, cozy, and quietly judgmental.
Little Gable Studio
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Ranked #6 for Tidewell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidewell.
A cozy house-building sandbox where you design, customize, and decorate homes at your own pace. Build freely, explore in first-person, and bring your dream spaces to life.
Camping Keeper
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Ranked #7 for Tidewell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tidewell.
Build your campground from the ground up: tent sites, cabins, showers, pools, and the pipes and power lines behind them. Watch autonomous campers live, complain... and review you. Set prices, hire staff, and climb from a muddy one-star field to a five-star resort.
Haunted Attractions
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Ranked #8 for Tidewell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidewell.
Build haunted theme parks and supervise ghosts in this cozy afterlife sim. Construct fun attractions, manage resources, recruit cute ghosts and haunt the park in order to spook and delight the guests!
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.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tidewell.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidewell.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidewell.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tidewell.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Tidewell.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Tidewell.
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.
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Frequently asked about Tidewell
- What games are most similar to Tidewell?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tidewell are Patchy, Little Sheep Valley – Cozy ranch-builder, Planet Zoo 2.
- Who developed Tidewell?
- Tidewell was developed by Pomo Games.
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 Tidewell.
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