Tide Up
Fair · Narrative · 2022
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.3h 5.8h to 100%
- Value
- $3.47/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 271 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.10 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Tide Up is a rather dark and gloomy adventure game. Accompany the girl in a dreamlike world of wonder. Collect the pearls scattered around the world and help the girl escape!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, CPU-integrated or on-board graphics, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 50 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Yume Nikki (free, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Little Misfortune ($19.99, scores 59).
More about Tide Up
1 of the 254 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026.
2.3 hours to finish it, 6 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
93% start to 9% 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
Tide Up is a haunting, surreal horror adventure developed and published by Gustav that uses minimalist design and symbolic storytelling to explore trauma, guilt, and the haunting echoes of memory. Built in RPG Maker, it may appear at first glance to be a simple pixel-art title, but beneath its modest surface lies a deeply emotional and psychologically disturbing experience. The game follows a young girl who awakens...
2 more reviews
I love that this game doesn't beat you over the head with dialogue and instead allows the creepiness to organically set in. Overall, fun and short horror game worth a play.
Not as good as cat in the box story wise, gameplay is really good though, yeah the story is quite generic tumblr diarrhea. I was expecting some kino in the end but it's standart depressado telenovela, the gameplay is superior though, more elements, more cool puzzles.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Tide Up scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1890520/tide-upReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.