Perfect Tides
Worth it · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.88.
- Length
- 7.2h 9.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 362 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.88 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called island paradise.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
19 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $6.88, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Old Skies ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Mutazione ($19.99, scores 63).
More about Perfect Tides
This site sampled 310 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
18% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
It's rare that the theme of adolescence is shown through a mature lense without falling into some kind of irreverence or flippancy. Perfect Tides manages to achieve that. The game's story and characters come across as deeply genuine and complex without compromising on humour and levity. It is a coming-of-age story which treats the perspective of the main character with an almost unprescedented amount of respect, all...
2 more reviews
as a prequel to the sequel (which is often how media is ordered), this story was nearly as good as 'Perfect Tides: Station to Station' seeing mara's relationship with her family, herself and other people in her life has helped clear some things up about the second game!! one thing i will admit was *slightly* frustrating was that this almost felt like somewhat of a puzzle game at times, with instances where you would...
My play time suggests I didn't get very far - but that's because I played most of it through ScummVM, as I was having odd issues playing it through Steam on Linux (thankfully, I didn't have any issues playing the sequal - Station to Station - though Steam). Anyway, it's good. I found the interface a touch frustrating, and could've done with a bit more direction (but the lack of direction makes sense narratively! The...
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Cite this score
Perfect Tides scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1172800/perfect-tidesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.