60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Surreal, Adventure, Experimental, Singleplayer.
A short interactive DVD game. Today is Jess's Birthday! Can you find her a suitable gift? Just don't get distracted and forget about Jess. DVDs can't be cursed... right? Yeah it's fine.
Membrane
I had lost all contact with my sister when she suddenly called me from a Tokyo suburb consumed by the Membrane, a curse that blurs the line between nightmares and reality. Fight shadows and your own fears in this psychological horror exploration game.
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An interactive psychological horror drama.
I had lost all contact with my sister when she suddenly called me from a Tokyo suburb consumed by the Membrane, a curse that blurs the line between nightmares and reality. Fight shadows and your own fears in this psychological horror exploration game.
Why similar: Experimental 33.2% ★, Nostalgia 29.2% ★, Horror 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%
An interactive psychological horror drama.
Why similar: Experimental 25.6% ★, Surreal 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Psychedelic 11.8%, Horror 8.5%
You Are Not a Banana is set in everyday life and has a sprinkle of imagination and humor. The audiovisuals (free OST included) seek to evoke nostalgia for the 80s and 90s. This short form experimental game unfolds as a sequence of thought provoking events and surprises.
Why similar: Nostalgia 28.7% ★, Experimental 20.7% ★, Surreal 17.7%, Dark Humor 11.4%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
OK/NORMAL is a short, experimental third-person horror experience, inspired by early 3D console games of the 90's. Journey through a dark, disjointed, dreamlike dimension with your cloud companion! Remember a good diet, take your medicine, and you should be fine!
Why similar: Experimental 29.6% ★, Surreal 25%, Psychedelic 23.4%, Horror 10.9%, Retro 9.7%
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Why similar: Experimental 29.5% ★, Surreal 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Dark Humor 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.8%
After shouting "Let Me Play!" to the cast in a theatre, the fiction comes crashing down as everyone, including you, becomes aware they're only following a script. Will you let the play continue? Or will you write your own ending?
Why similar: Experimental 32.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 28%, Surreal 24.2%, Multiple Endings 7%, Stylized 3.5%
A short visual novel about a man living its worst nightmare. There is no way out, no safe place, no death, just eternal limbo. Only you can help him... if that's what you want.
Why similar: Experimental 27.8% ★, Psychedelic 16.7%, Surreal 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Horror 8%
HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia. Play as Theo, trapped in CHILDREEF’s daycare, descending floor by floor; surviving the remnants of time. Use the Kids' multi-tool, listen to obscure tapes, and make your way to the lot. She's waiting.
Why similar: Nostalgia 53.2% ★, Experimental 28.9% ★, Horror 8.1%, Story Rich 6.5%, Retro 2.4%
Crawl through the darkness in this psychological horror visual novel with multiple endings, where you will traverse a surreal nightmare as you choose your own path and explore strange spaces in an attempt to wake up, if you can...
Why similar: Experimental 25.7% ★, Surreal 20.7%, Psychedelic 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Horror 8.6%
I AM MILK is a surreal, branching audio-first narrative game played through headphones with one button. Make split-second choices as a 21:30 minute story unfolds in real time, leading to more than 40 endings. DARKFIELD’s award-winning 3D sound transports you into the middle of this strange world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Surreal 18.8%, Dark Humor 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
LAMINA BRUISE is a narrative-driven, first-person adventure set in a surreal sci-fi world. A tense yet meditative experience, paced by thoughtful puzzles.
Why similar: Experimental 41.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 26%, Surreal 25.1%, Story Rich 3.7%, Casual 2.6%
Part travel journal, part visual novel with a hint of psychological horror, Melbourne: Route 96 is an experimental game about catching a tram in the wrong direction - and a polaroid camera.
Why similar: Experimental 32.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Surreal 19.4%, Horror 9.3%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
In this bizarre graphically-augmented text-adventure originally released in 1983 from the mind of Mel Croucher, Uncle Groucho is your guide in a wacky alternative Hollywood where cigars are currency and you are as likely to travel in a space shuttle as in a covered wagon.
Why similar: Nostalgia 48.5% ★, Surreal 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Retro 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 4.7%
is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.
Why similar: Experimental 23.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 22%, Surreal 20.2%, Horror 10.3%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
Imagine Q-Bert + Pacman but with surrealistic horror aesthetics...
Why similar: Experimental 41.8% ★, Surreal 25.7%, Horror 18.9%, Casual 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%
You find yourself in a strange world, calm, but with no memory of anything before, not even who you were. You embark on a long journey trying to remember your past, discovering the secrets around you, and find answers. But the peril grows...
Why similar: Nostalgia 60.8% ★, Surreal 22.7%, Horror 15.5%, Indie 0.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%
This is an art horror game where you snatch souls, cast spells, and die repeatedly. Select from 4 colorful characters and occasionally listen to them yap about their problems. It's very "mood." No penalty for death and you'll have fun even when you lose.
Why similar: Experimental 28.1% ★, Surreal 20.3%, Psychedelic 18%, Dark Humor 15%, Horror 12.1%
Tormenture is a psychological horror game where you play as a child trapped in a cursed 8-bit game with a dark secret. To survive, you must find four relics and solve reality-blurring puzzles. But beware—some creatures may escape the game and haunt you in the real world. A game within a game.
Why similar: Nostalgia 51.3% ★, Surreal 17.1%, Horror 11%, Retro 8.8%, Story Rich 5%
Come on animatronic, save the tulpa dubai! A xd1 roguelike game where you have to save the tulpa dubai. Big adventures & stories! Chapter 1 & 2, for free.
Why similar: Experimental 38.6% ★, Surreal 29%, Psychedelic 16.9%, Story Rich 7%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%
Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick by transporting you into the life of a writer searching for his own identity. Explore, solve the riddles and conduct your investigation. Will you find what’s behind the simulacra ?
Why similar: Experimental 30.4% ★, Psychedelic 20.9%, Surreal 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.4%
Dear Agony Aunt is a nostalgic email simulator set in 2006. Offer the right advice to a diverse cast of characters to land a job as a professional agony aunt!
Why similar: Nostalgia 55.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Retro 9%, Multiple Endings 8%, Story Rich 6.8%
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
Why similar: Surreal 32.7%, Experimental 32.4% ★, Horror 18.1%, Retro 10.8%, Stylized 4.2%
Explore bizarre procedural generated psychedelic worlds, encounter surreal creatures, experience shifting rulesets, retro aesthetics, and altered music for a wild and truly strange experience.
Why similar: Experimental 39.8% ★, Psychedelic 15.4%, Surreal 15.4%, Horror 9.5%, Retro 8.6%
Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.
Why similar: Nostalgia 56.6% ★, Surreal 20.5%, Retro 7.4%, Story Rich 5.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Surreal 21%, Dark Humor 14.8%, Horror 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Surreal 24.8%, Horror 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
A short psychological-horror narrative in which your choices matter. Journey through the five stages of grief as Liam, a man who just recently lost his wife due to... unknown... circumstances.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.8%, Surreal 21.4%, Horror 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
Enter the doomed town of Pareildas. Watch as the flames turn bone and stone to ash. Like joined wicks, we'll all burn together.
Why similar: Surreal 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Horror 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Story Rich 10.2%
"I'm Not a Robot" is an atmospheric horror with old-school 3D and dark humor, telling the story of quickly making $300 in a shady alley. Sounds safe, right? Grab an easy payday or uncover all the secrets of the dark cult that has taken over your small town.
Why similar: Dark Humor 28.4%, Psychedelic 20%, Surreal 19.8%, Horror 15.4%, Retro 8%
Rediscover the internet of the 2000s in DreamNet, a free to play Frutiger Aero exploration game. Dive into nostalgic worlds, uncover the story, and revisit the beauty of the old internet.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.3%, Surreal 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Story Rich 9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
The 90s point-and-click classic returns! Help Elroy and Blue find the legendary Technoloptera to win the 10th Annual Insectathon. Outsmart arch-rival Gordon Smugs, solve brain-teasing puzzles, and learn real science in this fully animated interactive adventure story.
Why similar: Nostalgia 58.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Story Rich 6.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.2%, Retro 6%
All That Time is a psychological horror experience where you explore unstable dreamlike memories, solve environmental puzzles, and uncover fragmented lives inside a collapsing liminal system.
Why similar: Nostalgia 59.1% ★, Surreal 15.7%, Horror 11.7%, Multiple Endings 7.1%, Story Rich 5.8%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Experimental 30.2% ★, Surreal 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Horror 10%, Multiple Endings 8%
Every day, tens of thousands of dreams are born, destroyed and reborn
Why similar: Nostalgia 91.9% ★, Stylized 4.3%, 2D 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%, Indie 0.6%
Blue has been dog-napped! Join Elroy and Syd in this comedic, fully animated, point-and-click adventure to rescue Elroy's dog and recover their stolen science project before summer school. Solve clever puzzles using lasers, codes, and battery power, and shape the story in this 90s classic!
Why similar: Nostalgia 62% ★, Interactive Fiction 12%, Story Rich 6.8%, Retro 5.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5%
This game is an experimental stream-of-consciousness visual novel. It tells the story of you and an amnesiac girl exploring, wandering, traveling, singing, dancing, laughing, crying, loving, and embracing in an empty city.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Surreal 25.1%, Psychedelic 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Multiple Endings 6.1%
Use quick reflexes to defend the core in this addictive, orbital reinvention of Pong! Get power-ups, stay focused, and deflect your way to victory! NOTE: GAME IS BEST PLAYED WHILE INGESTING LIGHT BULBS.
Why similar: Experimental 41% ★, Surreal 26.6%, Psychedelic 18.1%, Retro 5.2%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%
A short visual novel about the day to day life of a grieving women. Join her story and make the right decisions so she can get out of a cycle that seems to have no end.
Why similar: Experimental 27.5% ★, Surreal 18.4%, Psychedelic 17.7%, Horror 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.
Why similar: Experimental 28.7% ★, Surreal 23.8%, Psychedelic 19.3%, Dark Humor 17.3%, Story Rich 6.2%
It's June 2023 in Columbus, Ohio -- 10 years since Neal and Jack graduated, and 8 years since they last spoke. Follow two once-best friends' reluctant descent through classrooms and memories in Our Dirge, a game about growing up in a certain place & time, and making up for the time we lost.
Why similar: Surreal 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Dark Humor 19.8%, Horror 14.7%, Story Rich 9%
In a world of ice, the last human city is tearing itself apart. Explore the underbelly of a monstrous metropolis in a surreal adventure about everything and nothing.
Why similar: Surreal 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Dark Humor 17.4%, Horror 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Collect remnants of things that came before you. Explore a dark and ominous world.
Why similar: Experimental 33.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Surreal 18.3%, Horror 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Retro virtual pet game with total fidelity to the 90s classics. A pixel art simulator with multiple characters, including rare pets, where your choices shape the evolution of your virtual pet.
Why similar: Nostalgia 66.9% ★, Retro 11.2%, Multiple Endings 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%, Stylized 4.3%
A nostalgic metroidvania from the good old days back in 19XX. Take on the role of Sean, a young boy who ventures into the fictional city of Arostia to repay his father's debt. Rescue your 3 friends from imprisonment, defeat strong enemies, all while getting your debt paid in time!
Why similar: Nostalgia 64.5% ★, Multiple Endings 10%, Story Rich 7.1%, Retro 6.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
Axelle spends most of her life inside her room : watching anime, scrolling on forums online and playing video games. She desperately wants a boyfriend. You are her conscience, help her attain that goal.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Psychedelic 20%, Surreal 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Horror 10.4%
Play as a cat astronaut marketing Earth to strange aliens in this narrative Dada inspired RPG, made entirely out of traditional collage.
Why similar: Surreal 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Psychedelic 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.7%
Commander Keen is back. In the modernised Definitive Edition of the lost episode "Keen Dream". The game structure has been reworked to make the game a more modern experience without sacrificing any of the original charm!
Why similar: Nostalgia 73.3% ★, Retro 13.1%, Casual 10%, 2D 2.7%, Indie 0.8%
A top down exploration horror/adventure game where you use a spirit board to find clues, fulfil last wishes of the departed, learn secrets, and hopefully track down a serial killer before they find you.
Why similar: Experimental 36.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Horror 20.1%, Story Rich 11.3%, Stylized 4.4%
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
Why similar: Experimental 38.2% ★, Psychedelic 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Horror 10%, Story Rich 6.5%
The Ocean Will Have Us All is a first person exploration game.Experience a day in the subatomic life of Moira Leech. Get up, go to work, go home, go back to sleep. Or. Go off the the beaten track! Take charge! Stick your finger in an electrical socket!
Why similar: Experimental 32.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Psychedelic 16.8%, Dark Humor 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
A first-person, PSX-style horror game about living with a monster. Do as you're told... or don't. Just be ready for the consequences.
Why similar: Surreal 25.2%, Psychedelic 22.7%, Dark Humor 13.3%, Horror 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
A sci-fi choose your own adventure game!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Surreal 22.7%, Dark Humor 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
An adventure game about exploring dreams purchased by an office worker who can no longer dream. Using the “Somnialys” dream console, explore surreal/weirdcore worlds that loop endlessly and solve the puzzles to wake up.
Why similar: Surreal 31.5%, Psychedelic 27.8%, Horror 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Retro 8.7%
The Appraiser is a short, first person narrative game. As an art appraiser you will sell the art collection of a dying man. Each painting is by 4 famed artist. They have a story to tell you, but only if you choose to listen.
Why similar: Experimental 30.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Surreal 19.6%, Horror 9.2%, Story Rich 7.6%
A love letter to horror manga in the form of a visual novel. Welcome to a world of distorted minds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Surreal 23.4%, Horror 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
Before the Backrooms ... before analog horror ... there were the tapes
Why similar: Experimental 36% ★, Surreal 30.1%, Horror 14.6%, Retro 11.4%, Stylized 5.5%
Enter a world filled with drunk monsters and their offbeat shenanigans: Birdman's arm got stolen as part of a performance art. Lettuce wants you to eat him. Doctor Scientist rents his body out to a Wound Parasite, and the Talking Lamp is... well, a talking lamp. Wait- WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
Why similar: Experimental 30.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Surreal 12.8%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Story Rich 7.9%
Experience a unique adventure by getting drugs and consuming them in a +70,000 word visualised text game. Explore a hub connecting a variety of locations. Engage in dialogues and read books. Choose different paths to develop several independent storylines in non-linear chronology.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Psychedelic 26.9%, Experimental 16.7% ★, Dark Humor 14.6%, Story Rich 8.3%
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Why similar: Surreal 37.2%, Psychedelic 21.6%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Retro 9.1%, Story Rich 5.9%
