Games like Tainted Tide
If Tainted Tide is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dungeon Quest, Astral Arena and Face The Gauntlet — 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 Tainted Tide: A rogulite where you're stranded on a damaged lifeboat in a corrupted, endless ocean. You have 40 days to survive. Fish, scavenge, and craft by day. Fight what rises from the deep by night in match-3 battles where every tile is a weapon.
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Steam players who put hours into Tainted Tide 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.
Dungeon Quest
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Top pick for Tainted Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Tainted Tide.
By tracing lines across matching tiles on the gameboard to battle foes and gather resources, Dungeon Quest delivers a dungeon‑crawling turn‑based RPG with an old‑school soul. Explore the depths, uncover secrets, gather loot, and grow your arsenal of unique abilities.
Astral Arena
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Second-strongest match for Tainted Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Tainted Tide.
Monster Taming meets Rogue-Lite Real-Time Combat! Build your team of Astrals and customize their skills with the modular ability system!
Face The Gauntlet
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Third-strongest match for Tainted Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Tainted Tide.
Fight your way through the colosseum and ascend its ranks in Face The Gauntlet, a turn-based action RPG. Spend points to take actions, or save them for when you parry your opponent and interrupt their turn. Weigh your options carefully and strike fiercely as one of five unique classes.
March of the Kingdom
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Ranked #4 for Tainted Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Tainted Tide.
A party-management roguelite RPG auto-battler where you explore diverse lands, hunt the enemies of the kingdom, and face unpredictable encounters. Build your team, level up, and collect powerful weapons, artifacts, and relics to aid you on your journey.
HERETIC
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Ranked #5 for Tainted Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tainted Tide.
Faith remains, even after the gods are dead. Branded a heretic, you must explore perilous sanctuaries to uncover a forgotten truth. Master ever-changing battles, craft powerful item and skill synergies, and overcome relentless foes in this dark fantasy roguelite action RPG.
Wizard's Guide
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Ranked #6 for Tainted Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tainted Tide.
"Wizard's Guide" is a strategic RPG that combines "puzzle" and "rogue-lite" elements. Players act as a wizard who sets off with a magicbook to find a elf he enamored at. Core gameplay is the magic matrixs: activate them in various ways to release magic, defeat enemies, progress through storyline.
Lootbound
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Ranked #7 for Tainted Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tainted Tide.
Lootbound is a tactical roguelite with turn-based combat, loot management and D&D elements set in a dark fantasy world. Fight dangerous enemies, collect epic loot, recruit allies and lead them on a path of adventure.
My Only Heroes
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Ranked #8 for Tainted Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Tainted Tide.
Assemble your squad in My Only Heroes, a roguelite deckbuilder where your deck is your Heroes. Start each run with random recruits, then brave shifting dungeons to unlock legendary Main Heroes with superior stats. Stack equipment for awesome combos and survive to reach Mayhem Mountain!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tainted Tide.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Tainted Tide.
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 Action and Indie with Tainted Tide.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tainted Tide.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Tainted Tide.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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 Adventure with Tainted Tide.
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 Tainted Tide.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Tainted Tide
- What games are most similar to Tainted Tide?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tainted Tide are Dungeon Quest, Astral Arena, Face The Gauntlet.
- Who developed Tainted Tide?
- Tainted Tide was developed by Forget-Me-Not Studios.
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 Tainted Tide.
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