Games like Tides of Caldmere
If Tides of Caldmere is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mistworld, Dreadloop and A Noite Sem Fim — 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 Tides of Caldmere: A dark-fantasy tactical RPG where turn order flows on a living timeline, not rigid phases. Lead a war-band across a breaking realm: flank, seize the high ground, bend the timeline with tempo skills, and spend Resolve on desperate saves or killing blows. Optional permadeath, across two generations.
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Steam players who put hours into Tides of Caldmere 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.
Mistworld
WHY THIS
Top pick for Tides of Caldmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Mistworld is a fantasy RPG that embraces the classic spirit of the genre while offering a rich and expansive world.
Dreadloop
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tides of Caldmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Dreadloop is a turn-based RPG set in a dark-fantasy world, where life is bound by memories - etched in text, captured in paint and sculpted by hand - a gift turned curse, that must be broken. Gather a team, claim powerful gear and kill anyone in your way.
A Noite Sem Fim
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tides of Caldmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
A Noite Sem Fim é uma aventura com elementos de RPG e combate por turnos por um reino de fantasia medieval onde um conflito entre deuses e ambições humanas marcam a terra.
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Tides of Caldmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Tides of Caldmere.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
Monsters' Den: Book of Dread
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Tides of Caldmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Enter the Monsters' Den, a place of endless adventure, battle and reward! Lead your party of four heroes through each level of the ever-changing dungeon, fighting in turn-based battles and hunting for that elusive rare loot. The web-game classic comes to Steam!
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Tides of Caldmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Tides of Caldmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Fight Life: Vanguard
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Tides of Caldmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Tides of Caldmere.
Engage in tactical turn-based combat, manage and upgrade each character, and strive to reclaim harmony in a world on the brink of oblivion. Take on the mantle of leadership as you guide a mercenary squad through perilous landscapes, selecting your comrades from a diverse pool of skilled recruits.
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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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
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 with Tides of Caldmere.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Tides of Caldmere.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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More from Meridian Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Meridian Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hexhorde
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Tides of Caldmere. Shares Indie and RPG with Tides of Caldmere.
A pixel-art horde survivor. Pick a hero, wade into the swarm, and let your weapons fire while you move, level up, and shape a build — stacking upgrades, chasing synergies, and evolving your gear across stages full of enemies.
The Ancient Caverns
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Tides of Caldmere. Shares Indie and RPG with Tides of Caldmere.
A dark-fantasy roguelite dungeon crawler. Choose a class and descend through ever-shifting caverns, battling tier-scaled monsters floor by floor. Death takes your gear, but the artifacts you recover are yours forever. Loot, craft, and return to town to grow stronger.
Bagatto
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Tides of Caldmere. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Bagatto is a pixel-art poker roguelike. Score with poker hands, multiply them with a growing arsenal of Jokers, and blow past every blind by absurd margins. Buy, sell and stack wild synergies through escalating antes and cunning boss battles — the best trick is the one you build yourself.
Bulwark Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Tides of Caldmere. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Bulwark Tower Defense is a competitive team tower-defense: wall your lane with auto-fighting units to hold back the waves, then spend essence to send monsters that break your rivals' defenses. Grow your economy, upgrade a shared King, and outlast the enemy team across 1v1–4v4.
Twigs and Firewood
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Tides of Caldmere. Shares Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
A cozy first-person woodland game. Wander autumn glades gathering twigs and firewood, tend a crackling campfire, cook hearty meals, and travel between peaceful areas — buying tools, comforts and campsites to make each spot your own. No pressure, no fail states: just gentle days by the fire.
Crownhold
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Tides of Caldmere. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Crownhold is a cozy storybook tower defense. Line winding roads with archers, mages, artillery and barracks, upgrade them into 12 mighty specializations, lead a hero and rain meteors on the goblin horde across 21 hand-painted levels — then hold on in Endless mode.
Verlicia Saga
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Tides of Caldmere. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Verlicia Saga is a fantasy, turn-based tactical RPG. Command a growing army across a branching campaign of grid battles: master the weapon triangle, promote and reclass your soldiers, forge bonds and marriages, and face permadeath where every fallen hero stays lost.
The Antler and Ale Inn
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Tides of Caldmere. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
A cozy fantasy tavern-building sim. Lay the floors, raise the walls, and furnish every corner — then cook, brew, and pour for a village of hungry guests. Hire your crew, run the inn upstairs, and grow a four-table taproom into a legendary multi-storey estate. No timers — play at your own pace.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Tides of Caldmere.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Frequently asked about Tides of Caldmere
- What games are most similar to Tides of Caldmere?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tides of Caldmere are Mistworld, Dreadloop, A Noite Sem Fim.
- Who developed Tides of Caldmere?
- Tides of Caldmere was developed by Meridian Studios.
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