Games Like DAEMMERLICHT

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 34.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Surreal 16.3%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Stylized 6.5%

There is one rule in the game. And it needs to be broken. There is one goal. And when you attain it, you die.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.4%, Experimental 22.4%, Surreal 13.5%, Gothic 12% ★, Horror 10.4%

A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.

Why similar: Experimental 25%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Surreal 10.8%, Cinematic 8.6%

"Enthralled" is a short game about a man possessed by a demon. It takes place in a desolate world where you balance between looking for a way out, stopping the demon from killing innocent people, and not being completely devoured yourself. Explore the world and find a way to deal with your curse.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Walking Simulator 25.3%, Dark Fantasy 11%, Multiple Endings 9%, Horror 7.6%

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 27.4%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Surreal 11.1%, Choices Matter 6.3%

Before the Backrooms ... before analog horror ... there were the tapes

Why similar: Experimental 32.5%, Surreal 17.1%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Horror 9.2%, Stylized 8.6%

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: Experimental 32.6%, Surreal 20.9%, Horror 12.9%, Walking Simulator 10.5%, Stylized 7.4%

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 28.9%, Surreal 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Stylized 8.3%

Testimonium is a bite-sized, experimental analog horror game designed to push your psychological limits. PLAY THE TAPE.

Why similar: Experimental 33%, Walking Simulator 21.1%, Horror 11.6%, Gothic 11.5% ★, Surreal 10.6%

Under the cloud, pressure is crushing – only machines survive in the open. LAMINA BRUISE is a narrative-driven first-person adventure. Solve thoughtful puzzles and overcome revealing obstacles in a tense, hostile environment.

Why similar: Experimental 44.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Surreal 17.1%, Dark 7.4%, Atmospheric 4.2%

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 35.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Surreal 13.3%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Horror 7.1%

The Sixth Sorrow is a short, narrative-driven horror game where your choices impact the story. To what lengths can a mother's love drive her?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Horror 10.9%

An interactive psychological horror drama.

Why similar: Experimental 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Surreal 13.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Horror 7.5%

Beyond is a world of the damned and the souls who stray are lost. Beyond dwell violent and wicked spirits that have long been abandoned and those who wish to see you join them. Beyond is where you will go. Beyond, she searches for you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Dark Fantasy 14.6%, Stylized 10.8%, Horror 10.6%

Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.

Why similar: Experimental 57.5%, Walking Simulator 14.1%, Horror 11.4%, Atmospheric 8%, Adventure 6.4%

Play, no game. Put on your headphones, listen and imagine what exists in the dark. Did Lovecraft expose the most insidious Outer in his last story? Plunge into the Dormitory of Horror for answers. Oh, not sure if it's a one-way path…

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Walking Simulator 27.7%, Horror 18.4%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Dark 6.9%

A 1-bit exploration through a decaying city of the dead. Get lost in dialogue trees, leaf through weighty tomes, and make friends or enemies with the superstitious locals.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Lore-Rich 13.6%, Gothic 10.5% ★, Multiple Endings 9.4%

A miniature frozen between the atmosphere of a small room and Castaneda with Lovecraft. The story of radical spiritual practices in the search for truth among panels and stacks.

Why similar: Experimental 41.1%, Walking Simulator 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Surreal 8.1%, Stylized 7.9%

One wish to shape a game forever. Wait 2 hours in darkness, make your request, and watch it become real for those who comes after.

Why similar: Experimental 45.7%, Walking Simulator 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choices Matter 5.4%, Atmospheric 5.3%

In a town of exactly 245 residents, every breath is a subtraction. A narrative experience blending Gothic hand-drawn art and natural history puzzles. Waking into a world of "domestic bliss" as thick as a fungal bloom, will you submit to the morbid order, or shatter the balance?

Why similar: Gothic 18.4% ★, Surreal 16%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%

The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.

Why similar: Experimental 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.8%

You find yourself stranded in a forest after your car breaks down. A short psychological horror game.

Why similar: Experimental 35.5%, Walking Simulator 19.4%, Surreal 14.3%, Horror 8.9%, Choices Matter 7.8%

Aquarelle is a surreal adventure with parkour elements, where you have to find a way out of the virtual space into which its creator D-504 fell.

Why similar: Experimental 37.9%, Surreal 20.2%, Walking Simulator 18.7%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Stylized 6.6%

The Space Between is a surreal short narrative experience in three acts about the walls we build for us.

Why similar: Experimental 37.8%, Walking Simulator 22%, Surreal 16.2%, Horror 7.8%, Dark 6.7%

Dark, surreal point-and-click text adventure inspired by the poetics of Dark Souls. Guide the Wanderer through ruins and tombs in a purgatorial world.

Why similar: Souls-like 30.8%, Gothic 16.5% ★, Dark Fantasy 15.3%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%

CONTORTED is a camera-based horror game where you descend into a seemingly endless series of mysterious wells, encountering strange, contorted creatures. Use your camera to create objects in the world and to defend yourself! Now featuring a new endless minigame—how many points can you score?

Why similar: Gothic 22% ★, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Lore-Rich 13.6%, Surreal 13.5%, Cinematic 9.5%

House of stolen devil bargains and indolent angelic aristocracy: Nowhere Manor is doomed to disappear. You can leave if you’ve got a soul … but that’s not an option for an artificially created servant such as Liber. Just how far are you willing to go escape?

Why similar: Gothic 21.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%

Dreamreaper is an action-adventure game in which you play as unwilling partners in the form of an immortal man and an alien entity parasitizing him. Break through the hordes of enemies using feral powers, unravel the mystery of your existence and escape the dying world of the Grey Skies.

Why similar: Souls-like 21%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Surreal 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%

An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.

Why similar: Experimental 21.6%, Surreal 16.1%, Souls-like 15.7%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Horror 8.8%

Lies of P is a thrilling soulslike that takes the story of Pinocchio, turns it on its head, and sets it against the darkly elegant backdrop of the Belle Epoque era.

Why similar: Souls-like 44.7%, Gothic 12.2% ★, Dark Fantasy 11.8%, Multiple Endings 6.9%, Third Person 6.7%

You are a terrifying monster living beneath someone’s house. This is a dark, cruel, twisted interactive novel where you are the main abomination.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Surreal 13.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Horror 11.5%

The Last Oath is a short story based game about a knight that fell in battle fighting for their king. You find yourself with a final task to keep your oath to the king. Complete this task as you find out more about the world by interacting with the environment through text based dialogue.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Cinematic 13.7%, Stylized 9.1%, Dark Fantasy 8.8%

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: Interactive Fiction 25%, Walking Simulator 24.8%, Surreal 15.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%

A journey through the life of a star player of a cryptic and bizarre sport. The dialogue choices you make will determine the path your life takes, and the ultimate conclusion to your story.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Walking Simulator 19.5%, Surreal 16.3%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%

Henry is an elderly man with regrets. Over the course of his life, he has killed three times. He is about to kill again. Survive a home invasion as you recount his life through a series of dreamy vignettes featuring a thief, a friend, a lover, and mysterious bartender.

Why similar: Experimental 33%, Walking Simulator 20.8%, Surreal 17.7%, Stylized 7.9%, Horror 6.7%

TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.

Why similar: Experimental 32.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Surreal 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.1%

Beso's Shawarma is a short, narrative-driven horror game. A late-night call lures you on a surreal journey through empty streets to a sketchy shawarma shop. Talk to a cast of strange characters, make a terrifying choice, and try to escape a disjointed, looping nightmare.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Surreal 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Horror 9.4%

While working at their dead-end job and dreaming of what could’ve been, Demian Zhao discovers a flesh-eating parasite who promises to help them finally live free. If you let them, they'll become the monster of your own making - after all, who needs a moral compass when you have a god in the gutter?

Why similar: Gothic 21.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Surreal 14.8%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Horror 9.1%

Explore your new Vert-X 64 in this four-part horror puzzle adventure. Play games, connect to a local BBS, and solve your cutting-edge computer's technical problems with the help of strangers. And maybe help some folks along the way. Just don't get lost in this strange new world of technology.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Surreal 12.7%, Horror 10.3%

A game about boredom and self-pity. It's about myself mostly. You walk around and press the 'interact' button. Sorry for making this.

Why similar: Experimental 43.8%, Walking Simulator 25.3%, Surreal 20.1%, Dark 9.3%, Indie 1.6%

Panoptia is a narrative-driven atmospheric exploration game about a strange building called Panoptia that has mysteriously appeared in town. No one knows what secrets hides in its depths. Uncover these secrets if you hope to ever escape...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Lore-Rich 16.8%, Horror 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

Emporium is a short interactive vignette. Exploring notions of escapism, loss and a fragmented sense of self in the wake of a personal tragedy.

Why similar: Experimental 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Surreal 13.1%, Horror 7.7%

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: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Surreal 16.7%, Horror 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%

Navigate broken memories in a powerless fantasy fueled equally by nightmares and confessional poetry. A narrative experiment in adapting dreams and poems to the medium of video games.

Why similar: Experimental 31.7%, Walking Simulator 19.7%, Surreal 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Stylized 6.9%

Mother Seed is a fixed-camera point and click psychological horror game about identity collapse, loss of bodily autonomy, and horrified fascination. A woman inhabits a universe where nothing makes sense and something beyond her understanding keeps driving her forward.

Why similar: Experimental 52.6%, Surreal 20.3%, Horror 10.4%, Atmospheric 7.1%, Dark 6.2%

We Stay Behind is a single-player third-person mystery between dreams and reality. A comet is on course to destroy a small town but its inhabitants refuse to leave. Interview the people of Laburnum Creek, explore a beautiful national park and unravel the secrets of this picturesque town.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Surreal 14.8%, Stylized 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.6%

This VR Journey takes you to the 'behind the scenes' of the Universe. Beyond a door lies a barren landscape inhabited by strange rocky heads. Here, the maintenance and heavy lifting required keeps existence stable and temporal. You are a tourist. Don't do anything foolish.

Why similar: Experimental 33.9%, Walking Simulator 20.1%, Surreal 14.3%, Horror 9.7%, Cinematic 8.6%

A contemplative experience where you’ll wander through the dreams, memories and fantasies emerging from a dialogue between a grandfather and his grandchild.

Why similar: Experimental 36.6%, Walking Simulator 21.6%, Surreal 16.3%, Stylized 8.5%, Atmospheric 7.3%

An existential drama in handmade clay animation. Game writer Eric is replaced by AI. He loses everything, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to him.

Why similar: Experimental 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Surreal 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.5%, Surreal 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Horror 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%

Sacred Echoes is a story-driven action adventure. Play as The Shattered One and fight alongside your gang of swordsmen and gunslingers across floating islands to confront the man who shattered the Crystal Bound Island.

Why similar: Souls-like 31.1%, Cinematic 14.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.2%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Lore-Rich 7.3%

Your father needs a beer, and it's your job to get it. He doesn't care what it takes, so do what you must. Be quick though - it's not so safe in the dark.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.9%, Horror 17.4%, Stylized 12.6%, Surreal 11.1%, Atmospheric 10.5%

A game that you'll never forget! Memory Lane is a turned based RPG about taking names. Literally.

Why similar: Experimental 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Lore-Rich 16.7%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Surreal 10.7%

Explore this set of 4 distinct short experimental games and experience impossible worlds filled with audiovisual and narrative contradictions.

Why similar: Experimental 45.3%, Walking Simulator 23.3%, Surreal 15.6%, Atmospheric 6.5%, Interactive Fiction 4.7%

A Doctor's Term is a first person, narrative experience with pivotal choices set in an ominous sci-fi government facility: The Ministry of Health — Enter a story of treating menacing medical cases where daily work often defies expectations...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Cinematic 13%, Multiple Endings 6.6%, Atmospheric 6.3%

The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Cinematic 12%

RADIOSOL is a journey through a desolate world burned by a planetary cataclysm. In search of answers, you will have to navigate through the ruins of megastructures and abandoned cities, avoiding the scorching rays of the Sun.

Why similar: Experimental 30.6%, Walking Simulator 18.9%, Lore-Rich 13%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Third Person 6.9%