Tidalis
Skip · Short indie · 2010
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $1.24.
- Length
- 16.1h 151.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.08/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 239 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 75% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Tidalis is a block-based puzzle game with casual appeal, hardcore depth, and an addictive new "streams" mechanic. The game is brimming over with riffs and variants on that core mechanic with 20 game modes, dozens of special blocks and items, and 115 levels in the adventure mode alone.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 800x600 or greater screen resolution (32 bit color, 1280x720 recommended), 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 107 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.24 at 75 percent off still sits 153 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. Pixel Puzzles Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzles (free, scores 42) outscores it, and so does Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Tidalis
75 on Metacritic, 64 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
16.1 hours to finish it, 152 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 9.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
54% start to 3% 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
An interesting casual puzzle game. A little like Tetris but much deeper. Its basic rule is to eliminate 3 blocks of the same colors. The difference is that the block is directional. Player have to adjust the direction of every block to chain the stream through as more blocks as possible. When a set of blocks is eliminated, one or more new streams appear to connect more blocks of different colors. The more sets of...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Tidalis is a 2D puzzle game that is kinda a cross of match-3 and Tetris. Blocks of various colors drop from the top of the board, and the player can click any block to cause a stream to move in the direction(s) the arrrow on the block points. If it hits one of the same color, it's redirected in the way ITS arrow points, up to 3 blocks each step. It's a simple premise, but Tidalis contains an almost limitless number...
Soundtrack saved the game. But the game turns out to be repetitive every time you progress with barely no visible change, making player rush through end before we doze off. Plus, concept of making a stream with the arrows and combo chains to break the blocks is a bit obfuscated and beyond my mental grasp of what the game wants. Cut scenes and characters in the middle of the level were still cute, but why do we even...
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Cite this score
Tidalis scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/40420/tidalisReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.