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Game
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Tidalis
Developer Arcen Games
Tidalis is a tile-matching video game developed and published by Arcen Games. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
162 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Lemmy) · newest Feb 27, 2026 · last updated Oct 9, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
67
Fresh
105 positive · 52 negative
95% range 59–74%
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| Steam reviews | 105 | 52 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
152 of 239 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 162 · most liked firstIt is awesome. If there is a thing which is under appreciated in Steam, it is this game. I know it sounds a bit exaggerated but it is not. If you like Match-3 games, you will definitely enjoy this one. And if you don't like those games? You may enjoy this if you have any friend that enjoys those games. Since it has local coop, with different players for keyboard and mouse. Yeah, it is that unique.Sounds non-playable? It is not. I have tried doing the missions with my sister. First of all, I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I spent 240 hours grinding my last achievement. I'm thinking of idling other games so people stop looking at my games library and asking why I've played more Tidalis than Skyrim.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hesitated quite long about whether I would recommend this game or not. But in fact I think that Tidalis isn't interesting enough to be honestly recommended, or maybe to only be to mega fans of puzzle games. Indeed, there are a lot of possibilities in the gameplay and the different modes and it can hold some players in front of the screen for a good time, but the difficulty is quite insane sometimes and very irregular all along the adventure. Some achievements are quite hard or at least very…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got bored after 25 hours, but still - Tidalis is very fun to play. I was kind of addicted to it for the first hours, but that 'spell' somehow dissapeared. Anyway if you are a fan of such games, you should definently give it a try. 6.5/10 (which is good in my opinion)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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 blocks are eliminated continuously, the more the combos are. This mechanics makes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Puzzle game that is more on a bad side. You don't have control over blocks, you can just increase drop frequency - it's not your typical match 3 game. Gameplay is all about clicking on right tiles to send waves in direction they are facing to touch at least 3 of the same color, nothing spectacular. There's story mode which appears to be ok, but not engaging enough to make you wanna play one more round like in Jewel Quest or similar games for example. Hard pass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kind of a mess. It's a little misleading when people compare this game to Bejeweled or Tetris in any sense that suggests it might be a "clone" of one of those games. Yes, blocks drop in from the top of the screen and are arranged in a grid, but that just sets it in the same genre as those other games. Several people have referred to the game as "Match-3" and that's an extremely far-reaching interpretation of the term. To be honest, I thought that the core mechanic of this game was actually…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tidalis is a cute little puzzler which I find very fun to play. multiple gamemodes make this game hard to put down once you start playing it. The cute visuals and music just seem to meld with each other creating a mesmorizing experience which you have to see and hear to believe. Visuals (9/10) The tiles are very beautiful, and the colors are just right for a game such as this. With the feature to change different styles of tiles, it just adds to the variety and niceness of the game. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A rather mediocre puzzle game to be honest. Hard pass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Star Trek Infinite 4x type game could be cool, but a Star Trek themed spiritual successor to The Last Federation would be so much cooler. The Last Federation is an obscure game made by Arcen, the makers of AI War. I haven't played this game yet, though I intend to try it at some point but I think the premise just absolutely SCREAMS Star Trek to me and I think if the people who own the Star Trek IP were smart they would go to Arcen and offer them a reasonable development budget to make a more…
unlabelledView post →Here are my personal favorites: AI War / AI War 2 - Pablo Vega Dragon Quest series - Koichi Sugiyama Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy XI - Nobuo Uematsu and others The Last of Us - Gustavo Santaolalla Medal of Honor - Michael Giacchino Offworld Trading Company - Christopher Tin Stellaris - Andreas Waldetoft (I didn't notice that this game was just an idle clicker for a long time because the music was so damn good) Tidalis - Pablo Vega (especially the piano…
unlabelledView post →An interesting concept but the randomness left me much less interested in continuing to play. I did the grind for some time, but felt no joy or desire to continue playing. Additional Details Operating System Ubuntu Linux 14.04 x64 CPU AMD FX-8350 GPU GTX 750 Technical Notes No problems
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a tough game to review, and whether it's recommended or not depends entirely on the demographic. Tidalis is a supremely polished and smooth game that has a metric ton of features. The trailers and screens don't do justice to the sheer amount of content that the game contains, and it's a nice tonic when compared to the occasional Early Access flop that you see on Steam. There's clearly a lot of love that's gone into the creation of Tidalis. Fans of puzzle games will find a lot to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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 of spins on this basic format with special modes, block types, speeds, gravity,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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 care for these external attractions. What matters is game play. And nope, quite…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tidalis takes the Tetris genre of games and rips it apart. Tidalis is basically Tetris on steroids. Like Tetris, multi-colored blocks will fall down your screen at regular intervals. If you match up the blocks correctly they'll be cleared, but if too many blocks stack up (to the top of your screen) you lose. But that is where the similarity ends. In Tidalis you create "streams" to clear your blocks, and with clever positioning it's possible to use streams to clear blocks all across the play…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tidalis is a simple puzzle game based around destroying blocks by use of energy beams! Which sounds a lot more exciting than it is. Essentially you point blocks that drop down in tetris-like fashion in a specific direction and attempt to create a laser-path that passes through 3 or more blocks of the same colour. It leads to the occasional brain-teaser, and is nicely done. The music to the game is nice and restful, and the graphics are… well, it’s a tetris/bejeweled hybrid. Do NOT expect high…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Paladin's Review: Tidalis. What Would Appear to Be A Typical Match-Three Puzzle Game is Anything But Typical. Genre: Tactical Match Three Puzzle Game. Developed & Published by: Arcen Games Platform: Windows, Mac and Linux. Business Model: Base Game. Copy Purchased by Myself Overall Gameplay Thoughts Tidalis has a match-three mechanic in which you create "streams" to match blocks together. Instead of drawing matches, you initiate a stream from a single block in the direction you want it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After trying to give TIDALIS a fair-go, I'm throwing in the towel. It's a boring game that hails itself as another "casual-block-puzzler". The mechanics are hard to follow and rather empty. Pre-planning doesn't work as a strategy. And when you get stuck at a puzzle there's really no help in getting past it. Not worth your time or money. Thanks for reading.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't normally like casual puzzle games, but Tidalis got me addicted. Its mechanics are fairly unique and it has a ton of variations so it doesn't get monotonous. There's a story mode to introduce you to everything the game has to offer, a brainteaser mode where you have to clear the board in one move, an option to randomly set up a game for you, and a multiplayer mode. You can also set up custom games with whatever parameters you want (which special blocks to use, which playstyles to use,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tidalis is a puzzle game with a series of achievements called "Chain Me Up" and its various puzzles and characters all bring into play a humanist viewpoint in its forward-thinking look at sex and gender. No character is of the standard "generic white male/attractive female" body type, gluttony is a focus between vegetables being a positive block and "the Eater" being a neutral force but one players may learn to dread (with no actual stigma placed upon it), and to top it all off the infirm and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The basic mechanics of this game are already somewhat complex for a block puzzle game, but once it starts adding more mechanics and requires doing combos of several levels, I can't keep up. I guess to that you could say "get good", but that's not why I play casual games which is what I was expecting from buying this. I guess I'm too casual for this or something. Point being, if you're a super casual gamer who checked this game out looking for something chill, easy, and fun to kick back and play…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought I could jump into this without the tutorial..silly me..anyways I decided to go through the tutorial (Which I do recommend) which is a good tutorial btw. Then I played the game. The stages are interesting. Each one has different goals to achieve which keeps it interesting. It is no means like Tetris. It may look like Tetris, Smell Like Tetris, Fall like Tetris but it's not. You basically have to keep that game out of your mind if you want to be successful at playing this game. I do…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All the blocks have arrows. Rather than being side by side it shoots a ray towards the direction of the arrow. The arrows can be turned. Also new blocks are falling it. Also blue and teal are the same color (according to my eyes). And this is like throwing a bouncy ball into a stadium and hopping it lands in Kobe's red solo cup. It isn't fun. It's just a game of chaos. I made it 8 levels in and just rolled my eyes and exited.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a woeful and pointless Bejewelled ripoff puzzler. It adds nothing to the genre. They'd have made more revenue making it web based and getting money from selling the ads - it's a tablet game at best. Obviously not worth spending money on.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a little puzzle game. theres way better puzzle games out there.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very challenging yet peaceful puzzle game. When you finally figure out the answer you get the best feeling :) Great soundtrack as well.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is nothing about this game that stands out in difference to any other game of its genre. In fact... there are better games in this genre then this one. I'd really think about this one before buying and look around to see what else is on offer and only buy it if you've "beaten" everything else.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like these kinds of games, it's relaxing and a nice way to enjoy your coffee at the start of the day. Tidalis has a weird story and it's a huge game, lots of levels and a lot of block mechanics to get to know. I like how you can change difficulty as some levels can be very punishing. But Tidalis is in the end boring and very RNG. I can't really recommend it (apart from the really weird story) when you have other much better games in the same category like Puzzle Quest.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Admit it, you haven't bought this game yet because you're just not smart enough for it....
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have this. I have played it. it is not a game. It is a terrifying experince. This is some sort of conglomeration of code that looks like a tile game but is so entirely artifical that every moment you spend looking at it makes you painfuly aware that you could be doing something else. ANYTHING ELSE. It's hard to find a reason to play this game for even a few seconds.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tidalis combines the best of match-three and falling block puzzle games. It can be fast and frantic or simple and relaxing, depending on which options you select and combine from the dozens and dozens of different gameplay modes. The singleplayer story is also ridiculously long.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super duper puzzle game. Way way way many modes. Easy to play but super duper deep. If you like making colorful things sparkle into nothingness by matching them up in spectacular ways, you should check out the demo.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worse than many free games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i dont know i recommend it or not its 50/50 for me xD nice soundtrack and maybe nice game to waste some time! but its repetitive and you might get bored or give up when its get hard :/ its your choice , risk it or not xD
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/_3x_hFc_C6w Creating chains to match three is far more simple and less engaging than one would hope from a puzzle game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is fun for a few hours, but it eventually just becomes a chore. The story is so terrible the game would be better off without it. The puzzle mechanics are interesting at first but eventually just grow irritating. I'm kind of torn on this, I had some fun but got tired of it pretty quickly. I'd really prefer to mark this a neutral review, it's not terrible enough to thumb it down and since steam has no neutral option I'll leave this a thumbs up, but with a lot of hesitation. I find…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game seems like a Match-3 game but it's actually more than that after I started playing the game. Match-3 game is to match three similar items but you have to fast enough to force it to match 3 items and some of the special tiles are confusing or too complicated to serve the purpose within the time. The puzzles were way tougher than what I expected which it was still fine for me. I can try my best to figure it out. However, there were two things which I'm strongly unhappy about the game:…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't run on Mac -- just a black screen with spinning wheel. Other people have the same problem.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Imagine Tetris, but each block is one square, and the square has one or more arrows on it. You cannot move the blocks around and drop them where you want like you can in Tetris. They just fall and mix things up. If it reaches the top, you lose, just like in Tetris. The game consists of clicking on a square, and a light pops out and goes up to three spaces away, lighting up any other blocks of the same color, following those blocks' arrows as well. If you light up three or more blocks, they each…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short Review: Tidalis is a a fairly basic action puzzle game with elements of match-3 games and a complete lack of a cohesive vision. The developers seem to have been obsessed with using every single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idea for a level, block or gamemode they could come up with leading to a mess of under-used options and a bloated, repetitive campaign. It's otherwise well polished (the sounds, music and graphics are all pretty good) but I tired of the game quickly and I suspect most others will too. Yet…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Underrated puzzle game with some tough puzzles and a lot of replayability from its many modes and modifiers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got a friend? No well maybe give this a pass. Otherwise this game may just be the best experience you'll ever have. You'll rotate blocks, fires beams, and rotate some more blocks, then yell at your friend for not rotating enough blocks. 8/10 would play again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played this co-op about 3 years ago. Review might therefore not be up-to-date. At the start, the gameplay seemed fun and unique. After some hours the gameplay got a bit repetitive, and the many different game modes did not seem so enticing anymore. In the second half of the campaign, the different game modes started to seem more like gimmicks rather than anything new. tl;dr: At the end of my 18 hour gameplay, I felt completely done with the game. Does not have much play value, nor replay…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's Arcen Games' vastly under-rated puzzler. Cross-platform, reasonably priced, challenging, a horse and cart load of game modes, cathartic and deserving of one of Gamespot's longest reviews of this or any millenium, although its an invocation of poisonous sarcasm: "It can be a lot to take in at first, but a player who perseveres would find this interface quite simple to use." --Gamespot. I bought a retail boxed copy, today, because somehow this title deserves to physically sit tall and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A straight up puzzler, which is a zen-casual type game. However, there are better zen-casual type games, and the really puzzling thing is why you need to type in a CD key...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tidalis is an easy to play match 3 game that manages to break new ground. It revolusiones the genre with the unique streams concept and shows that there is more to things than matching tripplets of blocks. The game is simple to play, yet there is depth in the game, while it is easy to make a long chain, it is trickier pulling off a deep combo. But is all the more satisfying. The game has a lot of variation, so you are not going to get tired of the same old stuff over and over again. The story…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another one of those 'match 3 colors' games. In this one you have to guide a stream across the colored blocks using arrows which you can turn using your mouse. It's ok I guess, it entertained me enough to write a little review about it. If you can get it cheap, it's worth a try. If you enjoyed this review please consider following me: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41144728-markdj/]curator page
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A really great game which, on the outside, may look like a match-3 game but is much more innovative than that. Blocks have arrows on them and matching three of them will send a stream in the direction of those arrows. You change the arrow's direction on each block in order to chain matches and keep combos going. There's heaps of variation, too, with each story level having win conditions and lose conditions. Lots of modifying blocks and environments like stone and glass blocks and water which…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What games do you recommend instead? Honestly, I need to try **Tidalis** again...
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unlabelledView post →I am gonna give a recommendation out of left field a bit, and answer **The Last Federation** a game from the developers of Tidalis, oh and AI War. https://arcengames.com/the-last-federation/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/273070/The_Last_Federation/?curator_clanid=32938991 You play the last surviving member of a species that used to rule the galaxy with terrifying advanced technology and weapons. Eventually your species fell and became wiped out by the other species that were being…
unlabelledView post →I wanted to like the game but the more I played it more I had some issues with it. The biggest issue is that if you went to full screen mode it didn't resize the game, it just put larger black boarders around the play area. I tried it in windowed mode but the same thing happened. Thought it may be the computer so I tried it on another and tried different resolutions but had the same issue hence, the setting is useless. Trying to play it this way is eye straining. The other issue (not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →love the m usic but the game is hard and the ui not good
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Generally it's fine match-3 puzzle. You can rotate blocks with arrows and when you click any, a glowing ball gets released and follows the path set by colored arrows. The downsides are complete lack of difficulty curve. You can beat 3 levels in a row in a single try and then stuck in a level with some extra task which is way too hard to achieve. Also for some reason the game's locked at 720p even if you pick higher resolution.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I actually love this game. Story mode is silly and cute and the gameplay is relaxed and thoughtful. It gives match'em games a new perspective. You mean I can match this one color by switching around arrows? Sweet! It is a little tricky to get the hang of especially when they start throwing in the "special" blocks. Once you get it though, you feel smart and improved. I think the little ditty that plays after you break blocks is really what seals the deal. If you like match'ems but want…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nifty and different. Totes a puzle game, so not my thang. But it seems to have potential. I will revisit when not drunk.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A cute little casual game. Plays like match-3 meets tetris. I tried playing the game during a sick day and found its adventure mode a real chore. There's nothing really "Wrong" with this game, I just didn't find it fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One nice casual indie puzzle game with relaxing visuals and music that you can actually play for a while and won't get you bored.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good puzzle game :)
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