Games Like Clean Break

Your task is simple, exterminate all vermin. The sledge hammer you have been provided is capable of destroying almost all office appliances and furniture that may be uncooperative. Your time is running out.

Why similar: Surreal 34.1%, Destruction 29.3%, First-Person 8.9%, Indie 8.6%, Action 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core premise of hunting for hidden, out-of-place objects within a mundane environment that slowly becomes increasingly surreal.

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Why similar: Surreal 23.4%, Psychological 22.4%, Abstract 11.3%, First-Person 10.4%, Story Rich 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-driven experience captures the same meta-psychological and surreal tone found in experimental indie titles.

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 64.2%, Indie 16.5%, Stylized 6.7%, Adventure 6%, First-Person 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, low-poly first-person experience that excels at creating a sense of dread and psychological unease through fragmented storytelling.

Explore a mysterious abandoned bunker and find notes that paint a disturbing picture.

Why similar: First-Person 25.9%, Exploration 20.3%, Indie 19.6%, Adventure 10%, 3D 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A short, psychological indie horror game that focuses on environmental storytelling and a sense of unease.

The era-defining first-person psychological horror in all its terrifying glory. All of the game’s chapters collected into one convenient package that allows you to plumb the depths of madness in pursuit of artistic revelation.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, First-Person 17.6%, Emotional 16.4%, Exploration 15.7%, Story Rich 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the psychological degradation of a protagonist within a shifting, dreamlike house environment.

Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.

Why similar: Surreal 35%, First-Person 23%, Exploration 11.9%, Indie 9.6%, Story Rich 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deeply immersive and terrifying exploration of a house that changes based on the player's psychological state.

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: Surreal 34.1%, Psychological 33.6%, First-Person 10.2%, Exploration 6.8%, Puzzle 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Uses perspective and surreal environmental manipulation to challenge the player's perception of reality.

Move silently. Clean thoroughly. A 3D horror action and cleaning simulation featuring Kao’s real products. Clean the villa, solve hidden puzzles, and escape while your performance affects the home’s appraisal value. A unique blend of suspense and cleaning awaits.

Why similar: Exploration 31.6%, First-Person 18.8%, Action-Adventure 17.2%, Action 15.7%, Indie 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intersection of cleaning and horror, echoing the mechanical loop of the seed game.

A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.

Why similar: Psychological 41.3%, Surreal 32.3%, First-Person 11.3%, Indie 9%, Stylized 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A claustrophobic, psychological horror game that emphasizes exploration of unsettling, shifting spaces.

What Never Was is a short, story-driven first-person game focused on exploration and puzzle-solving about Sarah, having to shoulder the arduous task of clearing out her grandfathers attic, and soon finds that not everything about the attic is what it seems.

Why similar: First-Person 20%, Indie 18.3%, Exploration 17.6%, Story Rich 15.4%, Puzzle 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-focused exploration game that captures the quiet, mysterious atmosphere of a home filled with secrets.

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.

Why similar: Surreal 21.5%, Abstract 20.5%, First-Person 17.2%, Indie 15.6%, Exploration 12%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a short, intense, and claustrophobic experience that relies on atmosphere and the unknown to build tension.

You're home alone. Explore the rooms, find the keys, and, most of all, watch your tongue!

Why similar: Exploration 32.5%, Action 29.2%, Puzzle 13.7%, Indie 11.5%, 3D 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy game that blends puzzle-solving with a dark, surreal atmosphere.

A short interactive first-person horror game. Walk, look around, and talk to people to finish the short story about closing your restaurant. Complete the story with immersive sounds, and spooky tension and jumpscares to keep you focused.

Why similar: Psychological 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Exploration 12%, Action-Adventure 12%, Action 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Builds a slow-burn sense of dread through the repetition of mundane tasks in a first-person perspective.

Explore and break the environments of the Backrooms and Poolrooms! Utilize Thor's demolition hammer, firearms, and explosives to carve your way through the walls and entities. This isn't just another mundane walking simulator game. Now the entities are the victims. Overcome your fears with violence.

Why similar: Destruction 60.7%, Exploration 11.5%, First-Person 9.3%, 3D 5.1%, Action 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines destruction mechanics with the surreal, liminal space aesthetic of the backrooms.

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Surreal 38.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Exploration 11.3%, First-Person 10%, Story Rich 6%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, psychological adventure that uses unique mechanics to explore themes of identity and perception.

A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.

Why similar: Surreal 26.5%, Abstract 11.1%, Exploration 10.1%, First-Person 8%, Emotional 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features surreal, dreamlike exploration that challenges the player's understanding of the environment.

The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

Why similar: Psychological 41.2%, Surreal 15.6%, First-Person 14%, Indie 10.2%, Exploration 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative game that plays with the player's expectations of exploration and agency in a surreal office setting.

A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.

Why similar: Surreal 40.1%, Psychological 36.4%, Emotional 13%, Stylized 5.6%, Story Rich 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply philosophical and surreal experience that focuses on emotional and psychological themes.

On a task to find your sister, you find yourself exploring an old abandoned house. But you soon find out that things are not as they seem.

Why similar: Exploration 17.7%, First-Person 14.9%, Adventure 13.6%, Stylized 13.5%, Linear 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, stylized walking simulator that focuses on the psychological weight of its environment.

Uncover secrets, experience history, solve puzzles and understand one another. Immerse yourself and explore a surreal and colorful world in this short, first-person adventure.

Why similar: Surreal 43.5%, Abstract 14.2%, Exploration 10.8%, First-Person 8.2%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A short, surreal adventure that prioritizes atmosphere and abstract storytelling.

An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world

Why similar: Surreal 73.6%, First-Person 13.6%, Stylized 7.3%, Action 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A highly surreal and psychological action game that uses jarring aesthetics to create a unique, unsettling experience.

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: Surreal 45.6%, Indie 19.1%, Exploration 15.6%, Adventure 11%, Puzzle 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a surreal exploration experience centered around intricate, shifting puzzle environments.

"I am Sorry" is a game where you investigate objects and solve puzzles to uncover the story. Become a janitor, clean the house, and uncover the hidden truths of the story.

Why similar: Exploration 26.5%, First-Person 25.7%, Adventure 15.8%, Indie 13.9%, 3D 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, first-person exploration game that emphasizes a lonely, psychological tone.

It has been -̷̯͙̔̈́-̴̱̽̓͝-̷̍̊̕͠ days without incident. Your investigation has brought you to an old metalworks factory, abandoned after a series of mysterious deaths. But something’s been growing in the quiet. A short first-person survival horror experience.

Why similar: Exploration 20.3%, Action 18.6%, First-Person 15.5%, Action-Adventure 14.6%, Puzzle 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A mystery-focused exploration game that keeps the player on edge through its unsettling environment.

A post-apocalyptic 3D platformer combining puzzles with intense action. You play as El, a robot escaping from a dreadful facility and exploring the ruins of civilization.

Why similar: Destruction 58.8%, Linear 10.8%, Stylized 10.2%, 3D 8%, Puzzle 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, dark game that uses environment-based puzzles to tell its story.

Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.

Why similar: Exploration 27.7%, First-Person 17%, Indie 16.1%, Abstract 11.6%, Linear 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a unique point-cloud visual style to make the exploration of dark, mysterious environments feel surreal and isolating.

Scauage is a short horror experience where you play as a scavenger looting an abandoned house, uncovering its dark secrets and collecting hidden treasures while facing what lurks within.

Why similar: Psychological 49.9%, First-Person 12.9%, Exploration 12.9%, Stylized 7.5%, 3D 6.7%

It's time for a well-deserved break from your space-engineering stuff. Unravel the functioning of your freshly repaired coffee machine, while trying not to destroy the Earth. The fate of all humanity lies on your mug!

Why similar: Surreal 69%, Puzzle 8.9%, First-Person 8.7%, 3D 8.4%, Singleplayer 4%

This occult item will guide you through a bizarre in-between world and help you to confront past demons as well as piece together former memories that may lead to closure. Seek a better understanding of who you were, who you’ve loved and how much you’ve lost in this 3rd person horror adventure game.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Exploration 13.3%, First-Person 12.1%, Surreal 10.5%, Action 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D exploration game that blends action and interactive fiction in a surreal setting.

7th Chance is a short (20-30 minute) story-based exploration adventure game. Waking up from a night of heavy drinking ... something isn't right.

Why similar: Surreal 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Psychological 13.1%, Exploration 10.5%, First-Person 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction title that uses exploration to drive a surreal, puzzle-filled narrative.

A short horror about exploring abandoned space stations and collecting junk in order to pay off your S.R.P.O debt.

Why similar: Destruction 45.1%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Linear 9.5%, First-Person 8.5%, Exploration 8.4%

Fresh Start is a relaxing single player game, in which you embark on a mission to clean up the world and restore nature to its fresh and colorful shape. Watch as the world changes in front of your eyes as you help animals, solve puzzles and grow plants around you.

Why similar: First-Person 34%, Indie 20.9%, 3D 17.7%, Story Rich 16.4%, Action 6.7%

HOUSE CALL is a short 20 to 30-minute experience heavily inspired by Adobe Flash point-and-click games of the late 2000s, including THE HOUSE by Sinthai. Use your mouse to explore the environment, solve puzzles, and proceed through the house to find what lies within.

Why similar: First-Person 20.3%, Linear 19%, Exploration 18.8%, Stylized 14.3%, Indie 10%

A story about dreams. Explore a weird house and find the truth. A short game with mild puzzles and some psychological horror elements.

Why similar: Emotional 35.7%, Puzzle 15.1%, Linear 14.9%, Indie 14.6%, Adventure 13.1%

Embark on a heartwarming journey as a home cleaning specialist.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.3%, Emotional 29.8%, Exploration 15.2%, Indie 7.3%, Stylized 5.9%

Destroy all art. Free the soul.

Why similar: Destruction 49.3%, First-Person 12.4%, Exploration 12.1%, Abstract 12%, 3D 6%

Explore, fight, and gather materials in an atmospheric, ruined kingdom inhabited by creepy-cute car creatures, in this short and unique exploration experience.

Why similar: Surreal 50%, Exploration 15.6%, Action-Adventure 14.9%, Indie 6.9%, Action 5.6%

Where home feels wrong, and you're anything but welcome

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.9%, Exploration 16.1%, Action-Adventure 14%, First-Person 13.1%, 3D 7.5%

A bite-sized (literally) comedic adventure where you relieve the stress of ordinary life by biting through walls. Therapy is expensive, but drywall is plentiful.

Why similar: Destruction 36.9%, Surreal 26.5%, Exploration 8.9%, Linear 7.1%, First-Person 6.6%

Unable to sleep, you navigate a quiet condo complex. There's no rush - just you, the building, its inhabitants, and the stories they hold.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Exploration 19.3%, First-Person 17.3%, Emotional 12.3%, Adventure 7.4%

Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...

Why similar: Psychological 29.3%, Surreal 29.1%, Abstract 13.8%, First-Person 7.8%, Exploration 6%

The August Before: Chapter One is the first chapter in a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on. Clean up and don’t forget your old belongings on your way to the new life!

Why similar: Emotional 29.7%, Story Rich 13%, Puzzle 12.8%, 3D 10%, Indie 8.8%

A silly little physics-based game about moving on... or is it? Be neat, be careful, or be a chaos goblin. The choice is yours. But be warned, not all is as it seems in this quiet little house.

Why similar: Surreal 51%, First-Person 15.7%, Exploration 15.6%, 3D 7%, Puzzle 5.7%

Finally, it's that time of the year to clean up this leafy mess. It's been a while since the last time you've done it, so don't waste any second and derust your raking skills!

Why similar: Psychological 29.6%, First-Person 20.7%, Indie 19%, Linear 10.7%, Stylized 6.8%

A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.4%, Emotional 15%, Linear 13.9%, 3D 7.1%, Puzzle 6.5%

First person shooter horror adventure game. As detective C, you arrived at an old friend's home and try to find out what's going on.

Why similar: First-Person 31.9%, Adventure 19%, Indie 17.1%, 3D 13.3%, Action 12.5%

The Elision Effect is a short surreal puzzle game. The last person finds themselves in an empty office. The place seems off, like it shouldn’t exist. Not knowing what made everyone abandon these liminal spaces, they look for an exit.

Why similar: Surreal 31.3%, Psychological 26.6%, Abstract 9.5%, Exploration 8.1%, First-Person 7.8%

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: Surreal 48.7%, Exploration 16.8%, Emotional 10.6%, Story Rich 7.7%, Puzzle 6.7%

Enter, if you dare...Haunted House Escape - A VR Experience: A chilling mini escape adventure leading through an abandoned house. Highly realistic, immersive graphics and sounds. Be aware, you might not be the only one there.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.9%, Action-Adventure 15.6%, First-Person 14%, Action 9.6%, Exploration 8%

Dissonance is a top-down 3rd person adventure game. Players will encounter supernatural anomalies and creatures. Find and use specialized gadgets to aid you in your journey. Explore the abandoned research facility and reveal the secret of the organization that sent you here.

Why similar: Surreal 45.8%, Exploration 12.3%, Linear 11.1%, Action-Adventure 7.1%, Indie 6.8%

"Hold Me Still" is a point-and-click puzzle mystery game where you investigate your friend's disappearance by exploring their house, collecting clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering the truth.

Why similar: Exploration 24.6%, Emotional 21.5%, Adventure 16%, Indie 13.1%, Puzzle 12.9%

Operate a wrecking crane in VR to destroy the last remaining old building in a city of new skyscrapers, push buttons, turn wheels and make sure the ball hits its target!

Why similar: Destruction 61.7%, Indie 15.1%, Action 10.8%, First-Person 7.4%, Puzzle 2.7%

Collect, run and be a pain in the porcelain

Why similar: Exploration 23.2%, Action-Adventure 16.2%, Action 12.6%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 10%

Clap Clap is a short indie horror game that puts you in the shoes of a house sitter, experiencing strange occurrences in a seemingly ordinary home.

Why similar: First-Person 39.2%, Adventure 20.8%, Indie 13.6%, Singleplayer 13.3%, Story Rich 13%

Disorganized and alone, a woman finds herself crafting new glasses in order to look at her own home with different shaded views. I won’t forget Hue is a psychedelic thriller experience. You’ll go searching for new lenses, try to figure out what is happening to her home and why she is all alone.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.7%, Exploration 17%, First-Person 14.7%, Stylized 8.3%, 3D 8%

Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.

Why similar: Surreal 42.6%, Exploration 20.4%, Action-Adventure 13.5%, Stylized 10.5%, Puzzle 7.1%

The game is about escaping from a house where “Banshee”, a frightening looking fairy, wanders around, exploring the surroundings and using the items found to escape.

Why similar: First-Person 24.4%, Adventure 20.1%, Action 15.4%, Indie 13.2%, Puzzle 10.4%

Cleaning Simulator offers a relaxing and satisfying experience where mess turns into order and dirt into shine. Sweep, scrub, and polish. Every corner transforms under your touch!

Why similar: Exploration 33.2%, First-Person 25.7%, Indie 19%, 3D 15.3%, Singleplayer 6.8%

A short narrative and exploration game about Zach, June, and a strange phenomenon. You're Zach and, stuck in your home, you will do everything to keep hearing June's voice messages. What is happening out there?

Why similar: Surreal 31.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Indie 19.6%, First-Person 15.3%, Emotional 9.8%

Smoke Break! is a lighthearted 3D stealth puzzle game where you play as Applewood — a living puff of smoke. By breaking machinery, dashing past bakers, and using smoke to grow, you can hunt down the ultimate, yet elusive, burnt pie!

Why similar: 3D 20.9%, Linear 20.1%, Action 17.8%, Indie 16.4%, Puzzle 14.6%