iRankGames
Nairi: Rising Tide

22 Cozy games like Nairi: Rising Tide that you should try

Games like Nairi: Rising Tide · Find similar →

More about this game →
Ranking compiled by Lluis Enric Mayans, Founder & Head of ContentHow this is calculatedOrdered by an attribute-similarity model, not editorial opinion.

We filtered the 32 games similar to Nairi: Rising Tide down to the 22 that fit the “Cozy” category. World's Dawn, Flower Shop: Winter In Fairbrook and Retention top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Nairi: Rising Tide.

iRank93/ 100

Did you find what you were looking for?

GenreCasualSubgenreVisual Novel
Tags
NarrativeCozySolo
Year 2024Dev HomeBearStudio

Quick answer

Within the “Cozy” category, the closest game to Nairi: Rising Tide is World's Dawn — scoring 69/100 on our similarity scale. Flower Shop: Winter In Fairbrook and Retention follow close behind.

🗳️

Help us build the best rankings

Community powered

Vote on each result below — good match or not. Every vote directly shapes how we rank similar games for everyone.

The best cozy games like Nairi: Rising Tide

22 similar games foundUpdated May 2026

Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Nairi: Rising Tide. Each one has been evaluated across 14 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.

#1World's Dawn
World's Dawn
CasualVisual Novel
SoloCasualCozyRelaxingNarrativeAnimeIsometric
Steam👍 79%· 881
Year 2016Dev Wayward ProphetPlaytime ~5hOn PC

✓ Shared with Nairi: Rising Tide: visual novel storytelling, deep RPG systems and vibe casual

≠ Its own twist: deep simulation, fantasy world and skill tree progression, while skipping puzzle design

World's Dawn is a colorful life and social sim set in a sleepy seaside village. Inspired by the Harvest Moon series, it features vibrant top-down graphics, a huge cast of quirky characters to meet and befriend, and 30+ hours of charming gameplay.

Where it drifts furthest from Nairi: Rising Tide: progression and visuals.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly positive, against very positive for Nairi: Rising Tide.

It predates Nairi: Rising Tide by 8 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Tone100Setting79Visuals28Progression0
Flower Shop: Winter In Fairbrook
CasualVisual Novel
SoloCasualNarrativeCozyAnimeFirst Person2D
Steam👍 63%· 109
Year 2014Dev Winter WolvesPlaytime ~3hOn PC · Apple Macintosh · Linux

✓ Shared with Nairi: Rising Tide: visual novel storytelling, adventure storytelling and puzzle design

≠ Where it differs: brings deep simulation, while skipping deep RPG systems

The Flower Shop: Winter In Fairbrook is a dating and farming simulation game and takes place after the first Flower Shop game, Summer In Fairbrook.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against very positive for Nairi: Rising Tide.

It predates Nairi: Rising Tide by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Setting100Tone81Visuals78
#3Retention
Retention
CasualVisual Novel
SoloCasualNarrativeCozyExploration2D
Steam👍 35%· 707
Year 2015Dev Sometimes YouPlaytime ~3hOn PC

✓ Shared with Nairi: Rising Tide: adventure storytelling, visual novel storytelling and puzzle design

≠ Stands apart with deep simulation, while skipping deep RPG systems

Don't miss our new games!http://store.steampowered.com/app/448470/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/415960/ About the GameThis game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. He rarely slept, and even with 24 hours in a day, it was not enough for him.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly negative, against very positive for Nairi: Rising Tide.

It predates Nairi: Rising Tide by 9 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Progression100Tone81Visuals52
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
CasualVisual Novel
SoloNarrativeCasualCozyAnime2D
Steam👍 97%· 31KIGDB83· 2OC87· 38
Year 2021Dev Team Salvato · Serenity ForgeOn PS4 · PC · PS5

✓ Like Nairi: Rising Tide, it's known for visual novel storytelling, deep RPG systems and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: horror tension, deep simulation and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping puzzle design

Where it drifts furthest from Nairi: Rising Tide: visuals.

Genre100Game mode100Tone73Setting66Visuals46
Spirited Heart Deluxe
CasualVisual Novel
SoloCasualNarrativeCozyAnime2D
Steam👍 46%· 90
Year 2014Dev Winter WolvesPlaytime ~6hOn PC · Apple Macintosh · Linux

✓ Shared with Nairi: Rising Tide: deep RPG systems, visual novel storytelling and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings deep simulation, fantasy world and resource management, while skipping puzzle design

Spirited Heart is a fantasy life simulation game. Create your fantasy alter ego choosing between an apparently normal human, a cute elf and a wicked demoness: they behave differently in the various dialogue choices you'll encounter during the game.

Where it drifts furthest from Nairi: Rising Tide: progression and visuals.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against very positive for Nairi: Rising Tide.

It predates Nairi: Rising Tide by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Tone81Setting73Visuals48Progression0
Always Remember Me
CasualVisual Novel
SoloNarrativeCasualCozyAnime
Steam👍 61%· 271
Year 2014Dev Winter WolvesPlaytime ~2hOn PC · Apple Macintosh · Linux

✓ If you enjoyed Nairi: Rising Tide, expect visual novel storytelling, adventure storytelling and puzzle design

≠ Its own twist: deep simulation, while skipping deep RPG systems

Amy is desperate! Her boyfriend Aaron doesn't remember her anymore after a car accident! Will you be able to make him remember again? Or perhaps it's time to move on. Maybe Amy will fall in love with someone else? It's up to you to decide.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against very positive for Nairi: Rising Tide.

It predates Nairi: Rising Tide by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Setting100Tone81
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
CasualVisual Novel
SoloNarrativeCasualCozyAnime2D
Steam👍 97%· 38KRAWG👍 89%· 441MC81IGDB84· 9OC84· 66
Year 2016Dev Wolfgame · Ysbryd GamesPlaytime ~5hOn PC · PS · Apple Macintosh

✓ If you enjoyed Nairi: Rising Tide, expect visual novel storytelling, adventure storytelling and puzzle design

≠ Stands apart with deep simulation, setting cyberpunk and setting scifi, while skipping deep RPG systems

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life. In this world, corporations reign supreme, all human life is infected with nanomachines designed to oppress them, and the terrifying White Knights ensure that everyone obeys the laws. But, this is not about those people.

Where it drifts furthest from Nairi: Rising Tide: visuals and setting.

It predates Nairi: Rising Tide by 8 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Tone79Setting44Visuals34
Heileen 3: New Horizons
CasualVisual Novel
SoloNarrativeCasualCozyAnime
Steam👍 63%· 89
Year 2014Dev Winter WolvesPlaytime ~3hOn PC · Apple Macintosh · Linux

✓ Like Nairi: Rising Tide, it's known for visual novel storytelling, adventure storytelling and puzzle design

≠ Its own twist: deep simulation, while skipping deep RPG systems

Heileen 3 continues the story from the end of the second game and takes place in the Caribbean islands. Traveling side by side with Morgan the pirate, Heileen will search for her missing friends, hoping to reunite with all of them. But that's only the beginning, because the story continues!

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against very positive for Nairi: Rising Tide.

It predates Nairi: Rising Tide by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Setting100Tone79
Flower Shop: Summer In Fairbrook
CasualVisual Novel
SoloCasualNarrativeCozyAnime2D
Steam👍 69%· 138IGDB60· 1
Year 2014Dev Winter WolvesPlaytime ~2hOn PC · Apple Macintosh · Linux

✓ Like Nairi: Rising Tide, it's known for visual novel storytelling, adventure storytelling and vibe casual

≠ Its own twist: deep simulation, while skipping puzzle design

The Flower Shop is a dating and farming simulation game. Steve's life has just taken a downward turn.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against very positive for Nairi: Rising Tide.

It predates Nairi: Rising Tide by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Setting100Tone81Visuals52
planetarian HD
CasualVisual Novel
SoloNarrativeCasualCozyAnimeFirst Person
Steam👍 99%· 3.3K
Year 2017Dev VisualArts/Key · VisualArtsPlaytime ~3hOn PC

✓ If you enjoyed Nairi: Rising Tide, expect visual novel storytelling, adventure storytelling and strong narrative focus

≠ Where it differs: brings deep simulation, setting scifi and post-apocalyptic world, while skipping puzzle design

It is thirty years after the failure of the Space Colonization Program. Humanity is nearly extinct. A perpetual and deadly Rain falls on the Earth. Men known as "Junkers" plunder goods and artifacts from the ruins of civilization. One such Junker sneaks alone into the most dangerous of all ruins -- a "Sarcophagus City". In the center of this dead city, he discovers a pre-War planetarium.

Where it drifts furthest from Nairi: Rising Tide: visuals.

Genre100Game mode100Tone79Setting61Visuals48
Doki Doki Literature Club!
CasualVisual Novel
SoloNarrativeCasualCozyAnimeFirst Person
Steam👍 96%· 221KRAWG👍 83%· 1.3KMC78IGDB95· 2OC87· 8
Year 2017Dev Team SalvatoPlaytime ~3hOn PC · Apple Macintosh · Linux

✓ Shared with Nairi: Rising Tide: visual novel storytelling, adventure storytelling and strong narrative focus

≠ Where it differs: brings horror tension, dark, oppressive atmosphere and horror setting, while skipping puzzle design

Doki Doki Literature Club puts you into the role of an anime character, an average Japanese schoolboy. Your protagonist joins a literature club in which he's the only male member. The remaining four girls – Monica, Sayori, Natsuki, and Yuri – compete for the boy’s attention.

Where it drifts furthest from Nairi: Rising Tide: visuals.

Genre100Game mode100Tone73Setting66Visuals35
CLANNAD
CasualVisual Novel
SoloNarrativeCasualCozyAnime
Steam👍 98%· 11KRAWG👍 85%· 53MC83
Year 2015Dev VisualArts/Key · Sekai ProjectPlaytime ~6hOn PC · PS · Nintendo

✓ Nearly identical: visual novel storytelling, adventure storytelling and strong narrative focus.

≠ Missing: puzzle design.

StoryAfter the death of his mother, Tomoya Okazaki—a guarded delinquent student at Hikarizaka High School—struggles to not only make sense of the abusive relationship he has with his alcoholic father, but also find meaning in his life.

It predates Nairi: Rising Tide by 9 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Setting100Tone79
NEKO-NIN exHeart
CasualVisual Novel
SoloCasualNarrativeCozyAnime
Steam👍 96%· 983IGDB75· 1
Year 2017Dev Whirlpool · Sekai ProjectPlaytime ~4hOn PC

✓ Like Nairi: Rising Tide, it's known for visual novel storytelling, adventure storytelling and vibe casual

≠ Stands apart with deep simulation and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping puzzle design

INTERESTING FEATURES LIKE MOVING CAT EARS! Japan. From time immemorial, there are those who possess superhuman abilities. These beings who looked like a cross between man and beast are called Demi-Humans. They acted as Ninja and served those in power.

Genre100Game mode100Setting100Tone75
Highway Blossoms
CasualVisual Novel
SoloNarrativeCasualCozyAnime
Steam👍 94%· 2.7KRAWG👍 56%· 34IGDB80· 1
Year 2016Dev AlienWorks · Sekai ProjectPlaytime ~4hOn PC · Apple Macintosh · Linux

✓ If you enjoyed Nairi: Rising Tide, expect visual novel storytelling, adventure storytelling and strong narrative focus

≠ Where it differs: brings dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping puzzle design

Highway Blossoms is a short yuri kinetic novel set in the American Southwest. After an old gold rush miner's journal is discovered, supposedly detailing where he hid parts of his stash, a nationwide craze begins as would-be prospectors try to solve its clues and strike it rich.

It predates Nairi: Rising Tide by 8 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Setting100Tone75
Kitty Powers' Matchmaker
CasualVisual Novel
SoloCasualNarrativeCozyAnime2D
Steam👍 96%· 1.9KIGDB69· 4OC70· 15
Year 2014Dev Magic NotionPlaytime ~4hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ If you enjoyed Nairi: Rising Tide, expect visual novel storytelling, vibe casual and strong narrative focus

≠ Its own twist: deep simulation, procedural generation and skill tree progression, while skipping puzzle design

Kitty Powers’ Matchmaker is a hilarious dating simulator with a difference. Manage your own matchmaking agency with the guidance of your fabulous boss, drag queen diva Kitty Powers!

Where it drifts furthest from Nairi: Rising Tide: progression and visuals.

It predates Nairi: Rising Tide by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Setting100Tone80Visuals43Progression0

Complete list of cozy games like Nairi: Rising Tide

The full catalog of games sharing gameplay DNA with Nairi: Rising Tide, ordered from highest to lowest similarity score. Use the filters above to narrow down by genre, setting or game mode and find the alternative that best fits your playstyle.

Explore games similar to Nairi: Rising Tide by category

Rankings in the same genre