
Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes. Travel through time to make structures whole and save the city from ruin.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Puzzle, Surreal, Exploration.

Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes. Travel through time to make structures whole and save the city from ruin.

Keeper
From Lee Petty and Double Fine Productions, Keeper is an atmospheric puzzle adventure in which a long-forgotten lighthouse is awakened and, joined by a spirited seabird, it embarks upon a heartening tale of unlikely companionship, and an unexpected journey into realms beyond understanding

Ilamentia
Ilamentia is an experimental abstract puzzler where you must first discover the level mechanics before solving them. Delve into mysterious mind-bending levels that each have unique mechanics to explore that will test the limits of every facet of your cognitive faculties.
From Lee Petty and Double Fine Productions, Keeper is an atmospheric puzzle adventure in which a long-forgotten lighthouse is awakened and, joined by a spirited seabird, it embarks upon a heartening tale of unlikely companionship, and an unexpected journey into realms beyond understanding
Why similar: Psychedelic 24.8%, Cinematic 19.9%, Surreal 16.2%, Puzzle 7.7%, Atmospheric 6.8%
Ilamentia is an experimental abstract puzzler where you must first discover the level mechanics before solving them. Delve into mysterious mind-bending levels that each have unique mechanics to explore that will test the limits of every facet of your cognitive faculties.
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.9%, Surreal 21.2%, Puzzle 10.5%, Mystery 8.1%, First-Person 8.1%
Break the puzzling spell of your eccentric host! Dinner with an Owl: A short surreal point and click adventure.
Why similar: Time Travel 23% ★, Gothic 21.5% ★, Psychedelic 13.9%, Surreal 13.1%, Dark Fantasy 8.9%
The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.
Why similar: Time Travel 36.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Sci-fi 7.7%, Mystery 7.4%, Adventure 6.4%
Hourturn is an atmospheric game that begins inside a large, constantly turning hourglass. You are a tiny grain of sand within it, striving to stop it and escape, but what awaits the grain of sand outside? Is this the only way to measure time?
Why similar: Time Travel 36.9% ★, Surreal 16.1%, Mystery 10.8%, Puzzle 7.6%, Exploration 7.4%
Portals are physical objects. In this mind-bending puzzle game, portals can be carried, repositioned, and used to create impossible connections through space. Uncover the fate of a desert world that sought salvation through portal technology.
Why similar: Surreal 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Physics 12.2%, Cinematic 10.4%, Puzzle 8.3%
Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.3% ★, Surreal 15.2%, Puzzle 10.3%, Mystery 9.8%, Atmospheric 8%
It’s the first game of Through Abandoned series, classical point and click game. You try to find your twin-brother who disappeared in a huge and mysterious place called Abandoned.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.4% ★, Mystery 12.3%, Puzzle 10.1%, Surreal 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.3%
The game is a first-person puzzle adventure, with wacky and old-fashioned graphics, which will transport the player into a dreamlike, psychedelic world composed of an experimental game system that will challenge and test even the most experienced puzzle gamers in the industry.
Why similar: Psychedelic 28.9%, Surreal 18.4%, Puzzle 11.6%, Mystery 10.1%, Exploration 9.1%
Petrichor is a first person horror game inspired by Outer Wilds. Other older games inspired us for the graphics. You are in a cabin in the woods, some strange things are happening here.
Why similar: Psychedelic 22.9%, Time Travel 14.9% ★, Surreal 9.6%, Mystery 8.1%, Puzzle 8.1%
A liminal psychological experience powered by Steam audio. Navigate the levels. And don´t get scared.
Why similar: Cinematic 17.1%, Physics 14%, Exploration 12.1%, Puzzle 11.6%, Surreal 9.9%
A music-driven puzzle adventure where sound shapes the world. Solve mysteries, escape the Human Wheel, and experience the album by GRIGS in PALINGENESIS.
Why similar: Cinematic 22.4%, Surreal 18.9%, Psychedelic 17.2%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Puzzle 8.4%
A very trippy escape room like game filled with puzzles, enemies, and many areas waiting to be explored!
Why similar: Psychedelic 29.2%, Surreal 13.8%, Puzzle 12.1%, Exploration 10%, Adventure 8.5%
TORMENTUM is a dark Point & Click adventure game.The dreamlike, nightmarish atmosphere of the game was inspired by works of painters H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski. The game's final look and feel was also strongly influenced by the universes of games such as Demon's Souls or Dark Seed.
Why similar: Gothic 26.2% ★, Psychedelic 18.4%, Dark Fantasy 16%, Surreal 13.4%, Puzzle 7.8%
Geodyssey is a mind-bending first-person adventure game that challenges your perception. Explore spaces that defy logic, Solve perplexing puzzles, and Experience a reality that cannot exist. Immerse in a surreal Non-Euclidean world.
Why similar: Surreal 22.7%, Psychedelic 20.3%, Cinematic 16.4%, Puzzle 10.2%, First-Person 7.6%
Alaska, 2000. You wake in a cabin in a winter that should have killed you already. Beneath the snow, a black-site laboratory is failing; something inside it has begun speaking your name.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.8% ★, Cinematic 15.6%, Mystery 10.9%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Puzzle 6.9%
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 20.5%, Psychedelic 19.5%, Physics 12.4%, Cinematic 11.6%, Puzzle 11.1%
'Noosphere' is a first person psychological horror puzzle game about 'Personalities'. Vincent survived a car accident but only to find out that another entity is living within him.
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.4%, Cinematic 17.7%, Surreal 15.5%, Physics 9.5%, Puzzle 6.5%
Alice finds herself lost in a whimsical but dangerous Wonderland. In this dark fantasy action-adventure you will meet the twisted creeps and critters that inhabit it, feel free to kill them, they're mad like you.
Why similar: Gothic 25.3% ★, Dark Fantasy 18.9%, Surreal 17.2%, Psychedelic 15.9%, Cinematic 7.2%
A doll falls into a dark world inside an interactive full length film. You can JUMP from any scene in the film to an interactive 3d version of the scene and back! Experience a film in an entirely new way. Available in DVD++ and VHS++
Why similar: Psychedelic 20.1%, Cinematic 18.5%, Surreal 18%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%
FLY THROUGH A DEADLY PIT TO SEE WHAT HORRIBLE SECRET LAY AT ITS DEEPEST DEPTH
Why similar: Surreal 21.4%, Psychedelic 18.1%, Physics 16.4%, Exploration 9.7%, Sci-fi 8%
210 anomalies, 7 levels, 1 mystery to solve. Uncover the terrible event and fix the time paradox to save a machine and a human. Use the elevators for your decision and find the solution through clues in anomalies. You're the guest hotel detective to solve the mystery. It is hard – prepare your mind!
Why similar: Time Travel 40% ★, Surreal 14.1%, Mystery 12.4%, Exploration 7.9%, Puzzle 6.7%
REGENESIS ULTIMATUM is a short bio-industrial permadeath horror game set in a dead universe where every planet is barren, every sun is burned out. Only one bastion of life remains; threatened by an unfathomable entity.
Why similar: Surreal 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Cinematic 14.7%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Mystery 9.1%
The peg doll faces from your childhood bedroom reappear at every turn. Struggle to find a path forward through your own personal hell in this bleak visual novel with light puzzles and point-and-click elements.
Why similar: Gothic 23.7% ★, Psychedelic 21.3%, Cinematic 17.8%, Puzzle 7.9%, Mystery 7.6%
You continue your journey in worlds of Abandoned.
Why similar: Time Travel 45.7% ★, Mystery 13.4%, Puzzle 8.5%, Surreal 6.2%, Sci-fi 6.1%
Explore a sealed crypt to reveal its sacred secrets as an archivist priest. Use your faith against the looming horrors. Banish them and make your path before your lantern goes out, or you will lose your way... and your mind.
Why similar: Gothic 51.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 13.4%, Exploration 8.2%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Mystery 7%
Change your surroundings in the blink of an eye. Wield powerful glasses that let you see and interact with the world in new ways. Spectacle is a surreal first-person puzzle game about observation, spatial reasoning, and lizards.
Why similar: Psychedelic 31.7%, Surreal 13.2%, Puzzle 11.9%, First-Person 8.9%, Exploration 8.7%
Broken Pieces is a psychological thriller taking place in a french coastal village somehow outside the flow of time. Solve the mysteries by putting the pieces of the story back together by figuring out the enigma behind this mystical place.
Why similar: Time Travel 29% ★, Cinematic 14.5%, Surreal 14.2%, Mystery 11.4%, Sci-fi 7.4%
Family man Philip Oakes wakes up with a piercing headache, unable to remember his past. Dazed, he explores an old home, receiving guidance from a caller on the phone. As Philip walks through the familiar rooms, he uncovers a reality better left forgotten.
Why similar: Cinematic 15.1%, Surreal 13.6%, Mystery 12.9%, Puzzle 12%, Atmospheric 11.6%
말할 수 없는 아이 ‘노아’가 되어 멸망해가는 세상을 여행해보세요. 모종의 이유로 인류는 큰 재앙 속에 빠졌으며, 우리가 살던 시대의 인류는 거의 사라지기 직전입니다. 여러분은 작은 해파리 로봇과 함께 과거를 여행하며 그 이유를 알아보게 됩니다.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.5%, Surreal 23.9%, Psychedelic 13.2%, Puzzle 10.6%, Exploration 9.9%
Press one button to switch between timelines. Use this time-flip device to find and liberate missing people. Lead them out by switching the world state. You carry no weapons, so you must time-flip your way around the enemies and violence.
Why similar: Time Travel 26.4% ★, Psychedelic 21%, Surreal 12.3%, Puzzle 7.8%, Mystery 7.5%
Al’ulA is a first-person non-euclidean puzzle game set in a strange fractal dimension inspired by medieval Morocco. You will use an alien artefact to solve puzzles while guided by a strange alien entity.
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.4%, Surreal 17.9%, Physics 10.3%, Puzzle 8.9%, First-Person 7.2%
A 2D side-scrolling point-and-click puzzle game. A mouse awakens in a nightmare, with no memory of who he is. But one image lingers in his mind — the one he loved most. Why is she gone? Find the way out. Find her.
Why similar: Gothic 31.6% ★, Surreal 16.8%, Dark Fantasy 13.2%, Mystery 11.3%, Puzzle 9.6%
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 27.9%, Psychedelic 22.6%, Puzzle 11%, Exploration 9.1%, Stylized 6.8%
A first-person music-puzzle adventure. Wander surreal dreamscapes, record the world around you, and mix what you find into original tracks. Turn up your headphones and drop out.
Why similar: Psychedelic 21.7%, Surreal 20.9%, Cinematic 15.8%, Puzzle 8.2%, Mystery 8.2%
In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?
Why similar: Time Travel 38.9% ★, Mystery 12.5%, Puzzle 11.7%, Exploration 9.9%, Sci-fi 9.4%
Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.1%, Surreal 23.9%, Cinematic 17.1%, Puzzle 9.5%, Mystery 9.4%
REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.
Why similar: Psychedelic 25.4%, Surreal 20.1%, Mystery 12.9%, Puzzle 8.7%, First-Person 8%
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: Psychedelic 24.5%, Surreal 18.4%, Cinematic 17%, Puzzle 7.6%, Stylized 7.4%
Experience a 10 minute dive into the unknown depths of the multiverse!
Why similar: Psychedelic 31.1%, Surreal 25.9%, Mystery 10.3%, Stylized 7.6%, Adventure 6.8%
Umbra: Journey Home is a single-player, 3D puzzle game. Entering lights will cause you to lose control. Create shadows by moving objects in your environment to pass through. Adventure through a mysterious world to discover answers.
Why similar: Surreal 24.8%, Psychedelic 24.2%, Mystery 14.7%, Puzzle 11.4%, Stylized 9.7%
"Echoes of The Backrooms" is an indie horror game that masterfully captures the unsettling atmosphere of the Backrooms and the uncanny eeriness of liminal spaces. This game excels in creating an immersive horror experience with its cinema-quality visuals and meticulously crafted environments.
Why similar: Time Travel 44.3% ★, Cinematic 24.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, Exploration 7.3%, First-Person 5.4%
What is inside the Red Fridge? Collection of six episodes of psychological analog horror. Tour through liminal spaces filled with surreal events and uncanny strangers. Inspired by retro horrors of the PSX era.
Why similar: Psychedelic 23.2%, Surreal 18.1%, Mystery 13.4%, Puzzle 9%, Stylized 7.3%
Tormentum II is a dark, surreal Point & Click adventure, hand-drawn and crafted over 8 years by a true indie team. Explore nightmare worlds, grotesque creatures, and unsettling choices, in a haunting vision inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński. Return to Tormentum.
Why similar: Gothic 30% ★, Psychedelic 20.6%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Surreal 12.9%, Puzzle 7.4%
Aether-07 is a space-bending, first person puzzle game set in a retro-futuristic sci-fi universe. Solve challenges with dual-purpose puzzle elements while uncovering the mystery plaguing the Aether mission.
Why similar: Physics 18.9%, Puzzle 17.2%, Sci-fi 15.7%, First-Person 11.7%, Adventure 9.6%
ColdSide: Retro Edition is a reimagined version of the 2020 indie horror game, recreated in the style of classic retro titles. You once again find yourself in an abandoned bunker where research on anomalous phenomena is underway
Why similar: Psychedelic 24.1%, Cinematic 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Exploration 9.5%, Stylized 7.8%
Horror Night with TUNG TUNG TUNG SAHUR Your car broke down. Middle of the forest. No signal. You spot a creepy mansion up the hill. You knock. No answer. Just as you turn to leave—CREAK—the door opens by itself.
Why similar: Gothic 25.6% ★, Psychedelic 19.7%, Surreal 16.4%, Cinematic 15.5%, Puzzle 6.9%
Experience an unforgettable adventure in space and time. Explore new worlds, face Daleks, Cybermen and Weeping Angels and join two Doctors on an epic quest to save the universe from an unstoppable new threat in this first-person narrative adventure.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.4% ★, Mystery 13.7%, Sci-fi 10%, Puzzle 9.4%, Exploration 9.1%
You are a creative entity trapped in a mysterious box. Try to transform this strange world and defy the ominous titans to find your freedom.
Why similar: Psychedelic 23.2%, Surreal 20.4%, Puzzle 9.6%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Mystery 9.3%
Discover Just a Lullaby, a unique top-down shooter. Explore haunting 2D worlds, solve intricate puzzles, and uncover hidden secrets.
Why similar: Gothic 32.3% ★, Psychedelic 25.1%, Surreal 16.4%, Mystery 11%, Atmospheric 6.1%
HEAVYDELIC is a 2D Slavic Synthpunk Platformer broadcasting on dead frequencies. Synthetic psychedelia, comic art, VHS tapes, analog ruins & robots resurrected from Slavic mythology. Every asset is manually drawn by Eniac. Signal lost. Game found.
Why similar: Psychedelic 24.2%, Surreal 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Mystery 11.8%, Physics 11.5%
You find yourself on a planet where plants emit sound. Sound and music are also your main gameplay mechanic. Experience the world of sound as never done before.
Why similar: Cinematic 17.5%, Surreal 15.4%, Mystery 13.9%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Exploration 8.8%
Have you ever dreamed of being inside the paintings of great artists? Change them? Illusionary Manor is waiting for you. Explore a mysterious manor where every painting leads to a new world. Solve puzzles, uncover secrets, and discover the story behind the art.
Why similar: Surreal 18.6%, Puzzle 16.2%, Mystery 13.6%, Exploration 12.1%, First-Person 12%
A short first-person horror game, exploring the mysterious DMT realm. Roam infinitely repeating worlds while escaping from malevolent entities. Can you find your way back home?
Why similar: Psychedelic 28.7%, Surreal 19.6%, Exploration 8.2%, Cinematic 7.8%, Mystery 7%
In this puzzle adventure game, you awaken as a ghost after your mysterious death, drawn to the relics of a forgotten war between thieves and pirates. Shift between timelines to uncover the truth behind the war and your demise.
Why similar: Time Travel 38.6% ★, Mystery 15%, Puzzle 11%, Exploration 8.6%, Stylized 7.7%
Explore a small open world in first-person, solving environmental puzzles across five distinct biomes. Observe, experiment, and uncover secrets at your own pace in this calm, discovery-focused indie experience.
Why similar: Mystery 19%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Exploration 12.4%, Puzzle 9.5%, Sci-fi 8.8%
Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...
Why similar: Psychedelic 24.4%, Surreal 18.3%, Physics 11.8%, Mystery 10.3%, Puzzle 8.4%
Stranded at sea in an alternate timeline, you must master a complex time travel system to find a way home while piecing together the mystery of an obsessed captain and his quest that led him to the Greenland Sea in search of a supernatural anomaly.
Why similar: Time Travel 42.6% ★, Mystery 14.5%, Puzzle 10.3%, Exploration 8.4%, Sci-fi 6.9%