Games Like Back to Bed

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Puzzle 70.8%, Surreal 27.6%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully plays with perspective and surreal dream logic, making it a perfect match for fans of the dream-world aesthetic.

The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.

Why similar: Puzzle 63.7%, Surreal 36.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a surreal, dreamlike atmosphere with unique time-manipulation puzzle mechanics that mirror the thoughtful pacing of Back to Bed.

Figment is an action-adventure game that invites you to explore a unique surreal universe filled with music, humor and multi layered narrative. Join Dusty and his ever-optimistic friend, Piper, on an adventure through the different sides of the mind seeking to restore the courage that's been lost.

Why similar: Puzzle 50.2%, Surreal 20.3%, Isometric 15.6%, Indie 5.5%, Casual 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game is set within a surreal, hand-painted mindscape and features a blend of puzzle-solving and action that feels very similar to the seed.

Catherine: a tale of love, betrayal, and the terror of commitment. Experience the mature action-adventure-puzzle game unlike any other from the makers of the Persona series, now enhanced for PC in all its Classic glory. Is love over? Climb to the top or die trying.

Why similar: Puzzle 81.7%, Surreal 16.8%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on a nightmare-themed narrative with challenging block-pushing puzzles that require careful planning and navigation.

The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

Why similar: Puzzle 59.8%, Surreal 31.6%, Indie 4.1%, Casual 3%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its hand-drawn, M.C. Escher-inspired art style and gravity-shifting puzzles perfectly capture the surreal isometric feel of the seed game.

A 2D action-adventure through a surreal, subconscious world. Explore moody dungeons, buildings, and atmospheric lands, evoked by dreamy music and visuals. Help the human Young awaken from their dream!

Why similar: Surreal 53.7%, Puzzle 30%, Indie 7.8%, Singleplayer 2.9%, Action 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a surreal, psychological atmosphere through exploration and puzzle-solving in a nonlinear world.

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Why similar: Puzzle 75.9%, Surreal 11.6%, Indie 8.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%, Casual 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: While darker in tone, its focus on environmental puzzle-platforming and surreal, minimalist art makes it a staple for fans of the genre.

One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows. Gather the courage and use his glass head to save everything he loves.

Why similar: Puzzle 67.1%, Surreal 17.3%, Indie 12.5%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, horror-tinged point-and-click adventure with a unique art style that feels like a bizarre dream.

Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Why similar: Puzzle 65.2%, Surreal 24.2%, Casual 5.8%, Indie 3.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic point-and-click puzzle game with a distinct, hand-drawn art style and a surreal, wordless narrative.

Dreaming Sarah is an adventure platformer where you play as Sarah, a girl who is in a coma. Explore the world around her and help her wake up!

Why similar: Puzzle 60%, Surreal 30.6%, Casual 7.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal exploration game that takes place entirely within a dream, matching the core theme of the seed game.

Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.

Why similar: Puzzle 58%, Surreal 31.8%, Casual 6.1%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly unique, surreal, and artistic world that rewards curiosity and puzzle-solving in a way that feels very organic.

Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.

Why similar: Puzzle 86.6%, Indie 4.3%, Surreal 4.1%, Casual 3.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: An innovative puzzle game that uses hand-drawn panels to create a surreal, shifting narrative experience.

Embark on an adventure to rescue Charlie’s family from the nefarious industrialist known only as the 'Baron.'

Why similar: Puzzle 91.5%, Indie 5.8%, Casual 1.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a whimsical, surreal world where you solve puzzles by nesting characters, matching the quirky charm of the seed game.

Night Reverie is a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures living in the house as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.

Why similar: Puzzle 63.9%, Surreal 26%, Casual 5.7%, Indie 3.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on exploring a surreal house to solve puzzles, capturing the feeling of being trapped in a dream.

Carto is a charming adventure game wrapped around a unique, world-altering puzzle mechanic. Use this power to explore mysterious lands, help a quirky cast of characters, and guide Carto on her journey back to her family.

Why similar: Puzzle 87.3%, Indie 10.2%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to manipulate the world map to solve puzzles, offering a creative and surreal experience similar to the seed.

Help Snail Bob avoid the dangers that lie on his path. Snail Bob 2 is a puzzle game for all the ages. It'll make you think and smile.

Why similar: Puzzle 81.4%, Casual 11.5%, Action 5%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A casual puzzle game that requires you to guide a character safely through obstacles, much like the guardian mechanic in the seed.

Bob has crashed on a strange planet, lost a bunch of parts for his ship and above all, is late for work! Find the lost parts and rebuild your ship along the way to solve challenging, physics-based puzzles. You can build your ship any way you like in the ship builder – try to find the coolest ship-design for the puzzle at hand!

Why similar: Puzzle 84.3%, Indie 15.7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that shares the protagonist's name and a focus on creative problem-solving.

Visit a wonderfully peculiar dog's dream in a heroic attempt to save your owner in this beautiful pixel art puzzle platformer.

Why similar: Puzzle 66.3%, Indie 16.6%, Action 7.6%, Casual 6.9%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: It follows a dog exploring his owner's dreams, featuring puzzle-platforming mechanics that feel very similar to the seed.

Through the Nightmares is a challenge-driven platformer for anyone who’s ever had a restless night. Run, jump, and change your size to overcome the nightmare’s traps. Face Morpheus. Rescue children from an endless dream.

Why similar: Surreal 71%, Indie 14.2%, Action 9.3%, Singleplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging puzzle-platformer that deals directly with the theme of navigating through nightmares.

Explore a lovingly crafted world with all its odd inhabitants as you experience the ethereal realm and deliver messages to the spirits. Make your mark in the wordless narrative - with a Tiny Echo.

Why similar: Puzzle 50.6%, Surreal 19.8%, Isometric 13.4%, Casual 7.6%, Indie 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A short, hand-drawn, and surreal experience that emphasizes atmosphere and gentle puzzle-solving.

Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.

Why similar: Puzzle 59.5%, Surreal 30.5%, Casual 8.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, surreal, and hand-drawn adventure that focuses on exploration and clever puzzle interactions.

Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

Why similar: Puzzle 56.1%, Surreal 23.1%, Indie 13.9%, Casual 4.2%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: An artistic masterpiece that uses color and surreal imagery to tell a story, focusing on platforming and light puzzle elements.

In this new chapter of "Suicide Guy" you'll be challenged with even more insane puzzles, generated by the surreal dreams of the Guy. You'll encounter the weirdest of the living beings as you go deeper and deeper into his subconscious. This time to wake him up you'll need all your skills.

Why similar: Puzzle 63.7%, Surreal 21.2%, Indie 9.7%, Action 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is entirely set within dream sequences, requiring the player to solve puzzles to wake up.

Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Why similar: Puzzle 86.7%, Indie 9.9%, Casual 2%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses color-shifting mechanics to solve environmental puzzles in a surreal world.

Relax, clear your mind and find the way out.

Why similar: Puzzle 80.2%, Casual 9.1%, Indie 8.7%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle game that focuses on logic and pattern recognition within a surreal, dark aesthetic.

Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.

Why similar: Puzzle 76.5%, Casual 12.2%, Indie 9.6%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game with a quirky, surreal premise that is both casual and satisfying.

Wakey Wakey is a Puzzle Platformer with a unique world-bending twist. Navigate your everchanging bedroom, take control of new household objects, and overcome surprising obstacles to help this sleepy guy get a good night's rest.

Why similar: Puzzle 87.8%, Casual 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%

A punishing yet friendly get-to-the-top adventure across a haunted, retro-inspired world.

Why similar: Action 82.5%, Indie 12.2%, Singleplayer 5.3%

The legendary Knytt series continues with Nifflas’ latest creation; Knytt Underground. In this Knytteration; humans have long since abandoned the planet after practically destroying it in a war, five hundred years ago.

Why similar: Puzzle 58.7%, Indie 41.3%

Why You'll Like It: A massive, surreal, and atmospheric exploration game with a unique visual style.

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

Why similar: Puzzle 87.2%, Indie 8.6%, Casual 2.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: It uses perspective-shifting mechanics to solve puzzles in a way that feels very similar to the isometric logic of the seed.

An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?

Why similar: Puzzle 83%, Indie 10.6%, Action 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle game where you control a shifting organism, offering a surreal experience unlike traditional platformers.

Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.

Why similar: Puzzle 79.1%, Indie 11.6%, Action 8.1%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle game that focuses on manipulating the environment to progress through a mysterious, surreal facility.

Puzzle Box Palace is an escape room style puzzle game where you are pulled into your grandfather's magical puzzle box. Solve puzzles, manipulate the puzzle box, and jump across furniture as you look for a way out.

Why similar: Puzzle 70.1%, Surreal 21.4%, Indie 8.5%

You have a strange dream where you meet a creature named Glitch Daddy, telling you that the world is ending very soon. Then, you wake up and go to unravel the truth through a wild, abstract psychedelic journey.

Why similar: Puzzle 58.1%, Surreal 29.4%, Casual 5.8%, Indie 4.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Explore a surreal world with a drunken alpaca! Solve puzzles, fish out the most unusual items from rivers, fight watermelon thugs, and uncover all the secrets of this world!

Why similar: Puzzle 47.1%, Surreal 24.5%, Isometric 15.8%, Casual 4.5%, Indie 3.9%

A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?

Why similar: Surreal 66.2%, Casual 15.8%, Indie 13.5%, Singleplayer 4.5%

A child infiltrates a spaceship to carry out a secret rescue mission. His objective is compromised when they must make a forced landing on a strange planet. Explore this mysterious place, overcome obstacles, and find the way back home!

Why similar: Puzzle 99%, Singleplayer 1%

Turn off the lights, dodge the ghosts and go to sleep as soon as you can in this hand-crafted 2d platform experience! In this vampiric precision platformer you will overcome challenging puzzles and deadly enemies before going to sleep in your cosy coffin.

Why similar: Puzzle 80.7%, Indie 10.8%, Casual 7.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%

I HAVE A DREAM is a 3D puzzle line game. You wake up in a place you've never seen before. Adapt to the transformation of various points of view and get out of here!

Why similar: Puzzle 65.2%, Surreal 25.1%, Action 5.1%, Indie 3.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%

‘Between Me and The Night' is a surrealist action adventure game that walks the thin path between sanity and madness. Take on the role of a young boy and explore and interact with the mysterious house in which he lives.

When you sleep, you are dreaming. Some dreams are beautiful and vivid, the others are strange, and the rest of them are horrible... We've having them all the night, and then wake up and forget them. But what if one day your "awakening" would be a difficult task? Could you find a way out of the dreams and wake up?

Why similar: Casual 72.4%, Indie 27.6%

Night Reverie: Prologue is the first act of a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.

Why similar: Puzzle 64.3%, Surreal 27.3%, Casual 5.1%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 1%

A laid-back but smart puzzle game. Stuffo is the last remaining puzzle bot stuck in a world filled with bite-sized brain-teasers. Help Stuffo to solve the mind-bending puzzles by using various blocks to climb, push and teleport your way to the exit.

Why similar: Puzzle 93.5%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%

In My Bubble is a 3D action-adventure platformer featuring a child in a cute earflap hat on a quest to save the sheep of the dream world. Explore a world overtaken by darkness, rescue corrupted sheep, and restore the lost morning using the power of bubbles!

Why similar: Casual 48.5%, Action 29.3%, Indie 16.2%, Singleplayer 6.1%

Sleeping Valley - a new arcade platformer game In Sleeping Valley you only have one life to live and it's your job to see how far you can take this cute character on his brutally hard journey.

Why similar: Puzzle 37.4%, Casual 25.6%, Surreal 18.7%, Indie 11.4%, Action 6.9%

A short hidden object adventure about doing things later. Search, find, and don't lose yourself.

Why similar: Surreal 60.2%, Casual 22.9%, Indie 14.6%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Take the lost soul to its home.

Why similar: Casual 38.1%, Indie 34.8%, Action 21.5%, Singleplayer 5.6%

HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM is a unique point-and-click puzzle game where you move and combine objects to solve puzzles. Unravel the strange puzzles hidden in your dreams.

Why similar: Puzzle 69.2%, Surreal 27.3%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%

A joyful, casual puzzle game that will tease both your wits and your memory!

Why similar: Puzzle 70.5%, Casual 14.6%, Indie 9.1%, Action 5.8%

Awakening Sarah is a 2D platformer with emphasis on exploration. Unravel the dreams and realities of Sarah, a girl who's recovering from a coma, while helping her understand the world around her and herself.

Why similar: Surreal 82.2%, Casual 17.8%

Gnomdom is a point & click puzzle game where you find little gnomes stuck in various places and help them return to their home.

Why similar: Puzzle 86.4%, Casual 7.8%, Indie 5%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Experience the altered memories of a dying man, reliving his entire life as a little boy while lying on his deathbed. Explore the profound depths of his subconscious as you assist Griffin to shed the remains of his miserable life before his impending demise.

Why similar: Puzzle 63.9%, Surreal 25.1%, Indie 5.1%, Action 3.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Wander through intricate maze under the bed, and discover the secrets hidden in the long, dark tunnels. Document the existence of monsters. Retrieve the stolen treasures and memories.

Why similar: Surreal 86%, Indie 9.7%, Singleplayer 4.2%

You don't control the hero, but the level ITSELF! In this puzzle adventure, change and rearrange pieces of every level to find the right path. All to guide Polo through crazy worlds and rescue his kidnapped alien pet...

Why similar: Casual 54.4%, Indie 45.6%

Enter The White Door and discover Rusty Lake’s universe in a new game with a unique style! Explore Robert Hill’s dreams and help him to find his lost memories. Can you survive the strict daily routine and bring back color to Robert's life?

Why similar: Puzzle 78.3%, Indie 11.4%, Surreal 9.3%, Singleplayer 1%

"Broccoli Bob" is an adventure game that combined with puzzle.

Why similar: Indie 63.4%, Casual 36.6%

Experience a shattered and surreal dream filled with fascinating riddles, where your only guide is an elusive butterfly. Can you make the journey and wake up?

Why similar: Puzzle 73.5%, Indie 23.7%, Singleplayer 2.8%

The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

Why similar: Puzzle 64.2%, Surreal 28.4%, Indie 3.4%, Casual 2.3%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Welcome to Liminal Lane. A short, single player, first person, atmospheric walking simulator. A nostalgic, surreal experience exploring Liminal Spaces. Uncover the secrets of Liminal Lane and escape the Lucid Dreams and Haunting Nightmares.

Why similar: Puzzle 88.9%, Casual 11.1%

SOLITUNE is a very short game about escapism. You become a shepherd and collect your flock on the way out of your old life. Solve a puzzle in every room to earn a sheep to find your way out.

Why similar: Surreal 48.2%, Casual 26.4%, Indie 22.3%, Singleplayer 3.1%