Games like Above the Tideline
If Above the Tideline is your kind of game, the closest matches are Duty Guvnor, Debt of Life and Purrfect Galaxies — 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 Above the Tideline: Norway, April 1945. Keep a lighthouse, a family and a logbook alive on an occupied island. Decide what the light does at night — and what the record says in the morning. Every lie you write has to survive the rest of the week.
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Duty Guvnor
WHY THIS
Top pick for Above the Tideline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Above the Tideline.
A darkly comic, turn-based roguelike of 1970s London police night duty. Dispatch your few constables, fill your four cells, back gambles over the radio — and keep the streets safe until 06:00. Every shift deals fresh trouble, and every choice follows your career. Just make it through the week.
Debt of Life
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Second-strongest match for Above the Tideline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Above the Tideline.
You have money. You have a home. You have a family. And you're dying. You have very little time left. Make impossible choices and decide what you're willing to sacrifice for one more week of life.
Purrfect Galaxies
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Above the Tideline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Above the Tideline.
Purrfect Galaxies is a text-based strategy game. As the ruler of the planet Cataris, hungry cats await your decisions. Will you let your meowpurrlation bask in catnip bliss, or will they unsheathe their claws and seal your doom?
Prowlers Shift
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Ranked #4 for Above the Tideline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Above the Tideline.
A 2.5D surveillance sim in a private museum. Work the night shift: listen at doors, observe the people around you, take on their jobs, and decide moment to moment who to trust and who to expose. Your employer tells you what to ignore. Something is being moved that was never meant to be seen.
SimulationSteam ↗Splash Park Tycoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Above the Tideline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Above the Tideline.
Build a water park worth queuing for in this free tycoon game. Design twisting slides, create lively pools, and keep guests happy. Grow a profitable resort, tackle park challenges, or build without limits in the Creative Lab.
Lord Of Anatolia
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Ranked #6 for Above the Tideline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Above the Tideline.
Lead a 14th-century Anatolian tribe from a small camp to a great Sancak. Build your dynasty, manage characters with real personalities, survive seasons and raids — a deep colony management game. Made solo over 2 years.
Corsair Cove
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Ranked #7 for Above the Tideline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Above the Tideline.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Love Tavern
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Above the Tideline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Above the Tideline.
After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different girls from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Above the Tideline.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Above the Tideline.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Above the Tideline.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Above the Tideline.
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 and Adventure with Above the Tideline.
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 Adventure with Above the Tideline.
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 with Above the Tideline.
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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- What games are most similar to Above the Tideline?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Above the Tideline are Duty Guvnor, Debt of Life, Purrfect Galaxies.
- Who developed Above the Tideline?
- Above the Tideline was developed by thetiledev.
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 Above the Tideline.
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