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Perfect Tides: Station to Station

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2026

Should you play it?

A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex relationships while attempting to find your place in the world.

What works

  • Exceptional writing and narrative depth
  • Realistic and relatable character development
  • Innovative rpg-like mechanics for knowledge and writing
  • Beautiful pixel art and expressive animation
  • Emotional and introspective gameplay experience

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited traditional gameplay and puzzles
  • Some obtuse or unclear navigation elements
  • Depiction of smoking without refusal option
  • Small, constrained game world
  • Some players find protagonist frustrating or self-centered

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Perfect Tides: Station to Station: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fellowship, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 21/08/2026