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Perfect Tides
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Thank you for making this. I cried through the entire ending (and then some) with this overwhelming sense of melancholic joy that I get to share in a world full of people making such wonderful art and sharing it with that very same world. There is a human soul in every corner of…”
— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs played“Remember when you were cringe as a teenager? We all do. This game will not let you forget. It does a great job with getting the vibes, the experiences of growing up, and the internet in the late 90s/early 2000s. There are many aspects and character relationships in this story,…”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs played“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…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Perfect Tides is now available in Russian!
Today marks the release of the very first localization project for Three Bees. Perfect Tides is now available in Russian. There has been much chatter about localization lately, and while I can only sp
Perfect Tides: Station to Station Demo - OUT NOW!
If you've enjoyed Perfect Tides, have I got a sequel for you. Perfect Tides: Station to Station , currently in development, has a free demo starting today! To play, head to the Perfect Tides: Station
Perfect Tides 2.0 for Mac [BETA]
Perfect Tides for Mac now has the 2.0 update the PC version received last fall. This includes improvements to the UI and controller support. For now, it is in Beta, and you can opt in by doing the fol
A Perfect Tides: Station to Station Demo Is Coming
Greetings from the other side of MAGFest! As it turns out, this has been quite the milestone for Perfect Tides: Station to Station. The demo played beautifully, with dozens of people racking up multip
Perfect Tides v2.0.1
Patch fixes various UI and graphical bugs. Please note that if you'd like to access your save files from before the 2.0 release, you can revert to the prior release by going to Properties -> Betas, an
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Adventure |
| Player tags | Adventure · Point & Click · Exploration · 2D · Cartoon · Pixel Graphics · Cute · Emotional · Text-Based · Funny · Retro · Philosophical (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Russian * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 31 |
| Official site | http://www.perfect-tides.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Pentium or higher Memory: 128 MB RAM