Perfect Tides

The only thing I hate about this game is that I don't have enough people to talk about it with. It's awesome, beautiful, and heart-wrenching. I can tell this is going to sit with me for a long time.

An enthralling story that explores love, youth, and discomfort in a way that sucks you in immediately. Perfect Tides is one of the most genuine feeling games I’ve ever played, and several moments hit me deeply in places that I wasn’t expecting. I want to tell everyone I know and meet about this game, and it will be sticking with me for a long, long time.

scariest game i've ever played

This game contains probably one of the most accurate depictions that I've ever seen in media of how it feels to be lonely, isolated and a misfit. Everything else in the story is very touching and true to life but that's the thing that resonated most with my personal experiences. It's also just a really accurate depiction of what it's like to be a depressed, struggling teenager that's both empathetic and doesn't shy away from how dumb teens can be. It made me reflect on how much my adolescence sucked and how grateful I am to be out of high school now. We could really use more of those stories to help people understand how children/teens experience the world, from their own POV, instead of dismissing them as irrational, irrelevant and incompetent It's a point-and-click game though so it's got some confusing puzzles and sometimes you just have to pace around the environment and keep checking for things you might've missed. I used a guide on Steam that doesn't have any story spoilers and it got me through when I got stuck.

Amazing adventure game. It's a bit of a miracle how faithfully it invokes classic staples of the genre while feeling very modern to play. The story is incredibly effective and serves as a perfect time capsule to the ICQ and MSN messenger era of early dial up internet.

As someone who was also a teenager in the '00s- this captures that time and that way of being in the world PERFECTLY. Excellent writing, compellingly realistic characters, lots of laughs (and some crying). I actually played this AFTER playing the Station to Station (which is also amazing) so if you're also coming to this one after playing the second game, don't worry- they actually really work even out of order. Beautiful job making two stand alone games that still intertwine beautifully.

Surprisingly well written! Aside from growing up in almost exactly the timeframe of the game, I have/had almost nothing in common with the main character. Despite that, this game was absolutely making me flash back to that time in my life in a way that no other game has. That's a bit of a mixed bag, since I'm not sure I actually WANTED to relive some of those feelings, but it's still remarkable. My only serious nitpick would be that the 02.mp3 thing flat out does not work, or didn't for me. The game makes a big deal about this -- enough to literally pull you out of the game to set it up -- and then it simply doesn't do anything. That's a very strange bug to paint yourself into a corner with! Definitely a game worth playing for point & click fans!