Games Like Dreamtopia

True stories told by real people. Welcome to Elk transforms the weird, wonderful, dark and desperate tales of the road less-traveled into an inventive, biographical adventure. This is an island like no other where drama, trauma, love and laughter hide around every corner.

Why similar: Dark Humor 21.9%, Stylized 14.3%, Surreal 12.7%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Hand-drawn 9.5%

Daymare Town is a hand-drawn puzzle adventure game. You find yourself in a heart of a strange city populated by peculiar Metamorph creatures. This town is full of nooks and crannies, puzzles, secrets and items to collect to help you along the way. Can you escape the nightmare of a day?

Why similar: Dark Humor 20.7%, Point & Click 18.6%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Dystopian 12.4%, Exploration 9%

A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.

Why similar: Dystopian 20.1%, Surreal 17.5%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Stylized 10.4%

This is the first downloadable entry in the Town of Nowhere series. This game was made with the intention of being playable and enjoyable regardless of if you know the back story of the larger surrealist horror series. Largely inspired by CGA DOS adventure games TTON:EotL is in full first person 3D.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.4%, Surreal 33.2%, Stylized 16.9%, Story Rich 6.9%, Adventure 3.2%

A game about a colorblind girl, stuck within a dreamlike, colorless world.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.5%, Surreal 18.1%, Female Protagonist 15.9%, RPG 12.2%, Hand-drawn 9.2%

Coyote: An Old West Vignette is a tiny point-and-click adventure game about a gruff marshall on the trail of a deadly outlaw.

Why similar: Point & Click 23.7%, Dark Humor 17.5%, Satire 17.5% ★, Hand-drawn 17.3%, Stylized 12.2%

A point and click ghost story, set in a Victorian mortuary. A haunting story with a fully voiced cast of characters. Featuring hand painted locations and characters in 4K resolution.

Why similar: Point & Click 20.7%, Dark Humor 17.3%, Drama 15.5%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Stylized 11.4%

Subsequence is a story-driven adventure focused on exploration and discovery. Featuring light logic puzzles and a touch of humor, you’ll uncover hidden secrets as Vicky tries to escape the aftermath of a mysterious incident in an underground laboratory.

Why similar: Dark Humor 21.1%, Surreal 19.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Stylized 9.2%

Just a goat. A boring peg. And a postcard that changed everything. Embark on a surreal journey in a shadow theatre style: from a village garden to lunar craters. Solve absurd puzzles, troll a rooster, and find out if the grass is truly greener on the other side of the universe.

Why similar: Point & Click 17.9%, Surreal 14%, Stylized 12.6%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Hand-drawn 10.9%

Waking up at the bottom of a brown world, an amnesiac bee faces a dreadful choice: the pornocracy of the Queen of Flies or complicity in the crimes of a perverted incel spider. Can she crawl out of the pit and defend her identity?

Why similar: Satire 15.6% ★, Walking Simulator 15%, Dystopian 14.3%, Surreal 13.9%, Dark Humor 13.3%

The story begins in Zhijiang in June 2022.The idol group A-SOUL. This work has designed more than 20 different scenes and 10 special events with CG, and created scripts with more than 80000 Chinese characters.

Why similar: Drama 23.1%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Female Protagonist 16%, Surreal 15.4%, RPG 12.3%

///CODA is a surrealist exploration game with four diverse chapters that each tell unique stories connected by a surreal museum. Take a peak through the looking glass and wander...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.1%, Surreal 17.8%, Dystopian 14.9%, Point & Click 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%

Vasilis is a hand-drawn adventure game. The main character – Vasilis, lost her husband – Peter, in the rebellious city center. The city is in riots for a long time and almost everyday something burns or someone dies.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.1%, Surreal 16.2%, Point & Click 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Female Protagonist 10.6%

The Memphis Chronicles is a first-person, story-rich tragicomedy set in a world between worlds. Explore a mysterious city layered with interconnected details, in which memories creep up on you. No one there to hold your hand. The only way is forward. This is the trip of a lifetime.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.7%, Dark Humor 21.5%, Surreal 17.1%, Drama 13.6%, Exploration 10%

Are you ready for an adventure? Challenges, exploration and puzzles in a narrative driven experience, pick up your camera and test your wits in this first-person mystery by the team behind Quern!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.5%, Dark Humor 18.3%, Point & Click 13%, Surreal 12.5%, Female Protagonist 9.3%

Join Tom, the village’s new postgirl, and get to know the locals, perhaps a little too well. Her method, although controversial, is highly effective: intense, obsessive stalking.

Why similar: Dark Humor 19.1%, Satire 18.9% ★, Point & Click 13.3%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%

Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a point-and-click psychological horror and multiple scenarios, where success and failure both progress the narrative of her story.

Why similar: Surreal 17.3%, Dark Humor 17.2%, Point & Click 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Female Protagonist 10.4%

RAIN DOGS is a single-player, narrative experience set in a reflection of the urban sprawl you used to call home. Explore and interact with other prisoners of this throw-away society to learn more about why you were put here and what your path forward will be.

Why similar: Surreal 19.4%, Dystopian 19.4%, Dark Humor 15.8%, Satire 15.4% ★, Stylized 11.9%

An adventure game that can be played with a picture book feel, without text in the game.

Why similar: Point & Click 24.8%, Dystopian 22.6%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Drama 15.6%, Story Rich 6.9%

In my past life, I was a broke, repressed code monkey—laid off, heartbroken, a full-on loser. My life was a running joke. In this life, I started as a dishwasher, created FakeTok, ran for president, and rose to become the Emperor of America!

Why similar: Dark Humor 29.1%, Satire 22.3% ★, Visual Novel 15%, Drama 14.1%, RPG 11.3%

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 22%, Surreal 20.9%, Dark Humor 19.4%, Visual Novel 15%, Exploration 8.1%

After Dark is a horror adventure game filled with monsters, oddities, and more! Traverse a strange, other-worldly forest to rescue your sister and bring her back home! There will be many dangers along the way, can you survive?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.3%, Surreal 22.1%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Exploration 9.1%

Dream Voyage is an Indie Story rich Walking simulator focused on the exploration of introspective surreal levels in the dream world of a 10 years old blind child who's looking for the memories of their late mother. Dream Voyage's hudless experience will immerse you in this emotive searching.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 41.9%, Surreal 30%, Exploration 12.2%, Story Rich 5%, Atmospheric 4.8%

You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21%, Surreal 18.3%, Point & Click 15.9%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Stylized 10%

In Broken Aperture, players explore Freya's emotional journey through beautifully crafted environments, solving puzzles to uncover hidden memories. This narrative-driven game delves into themes of grief, memory, and self-discovery,

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.2%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Stylized 15.3%, Drama 9.5%, Exploration 8.1%

'West' is a 2.5D side-scrolling adventure inspired by CD-ROM games of the 1990's.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.4%, Drama 15.9%, RPG 13.9%, Surreal 12.7%, Stylized 10.8%

Doll is a visual novel of horror and exploration.With the Jeudille doll, you will be free to explore the city of Lorgna. Talk to the inhabitants, and compare their speeches to succeed in answering the questions raised by this experience.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.2%, Hand-drawn 17.6%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Exploration 9.5%, Atmospheric 8.8%

"we don't have to do this. why don't we just leave?" asks you your bestfriend while you try to escape your hometown. and you start hating them. and you start hating yourself. can you pull through or will you choose to go home again? both decisions feel wrong but this time it's you who has to choose.

Why similar: Point & Click 27%, Walking Simulator 25.5%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Drama 13.6%, Exploration 10.8%

This is a steampunk puzzle game where you click or drag with your left mouse button to solve puzzles and free the protagonist from difficult situations. There's no text in the game.

Why similar: Dystopian 21.3%, Surreal 17.9%, Point & Click 17.8%, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Stylized 10.6%

An AI controls the world. Seven dissident friends, not very bright, meet every day at the park. But one day, our protagonist wakes up… with no memory. Her friends have disappeared. Where have they gone? What does the AI want? And why is our protagonist a Rat Girl?

Why similar: Dystopian 22.6%, Point & Click 17.3%, Dark Humor 14.5%, Surreal 13.5%, Hand-drawn 11%

Finding Hannah is a relaxing puzzle game about a woman navigating a midlife crisis. Hannah’s got it all: a well-paying job, a fancy coffee machine, and a comfortable life – so why isn’t she happy? Lead her on a journey of self-discovery as you explore beautiful scenes and find hidden objects.

Why similar: Point & Click 18.3%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Female Protagonist 17%, Drama 13.4%, Hand-drawn 11.7%

Nia accidentally goes into her best friend—Alice's past, the only way to escape and go back to the real world is to help Alice to solve all her problems. When you can go back to the past, do you want to do everything you can to save what you've lost?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 34%, Drama 24%, RPG 17.2%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Exploration 10.3%

If it's not cool, it will disappear. If you're not cool, hide. MechaNika is here.

Why similar: Dark Humor 28.4%, Point & Click 27.7%, Hand-drawn 18.7%, Female Protagonist 18%, Indie 3.7%

The reality TV show Popworld is a one-way ticket to pop stardom, and Mia and Noah came here to win! Fight your way through turn-based dance battles (and a whole lot of drama) in this hand-drawn idol adventure game.

Why similar: Point & Click 16.9%, Surreal 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Stylized 11.9%

To the town in the hole... a story about a place where I can't go.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.3%, Hand-drawn 22.1%, Surreal 19%, Dark Humor 9.2%, Female Protagonist 8.5%

Set off on a calm and beautiful adventure exploring a vast mystical island in search of the lost Manaliths. Walk, climb, swim, and glide through valleys, woods, caverns, and coves discovering the island's secrets as you go.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 40%, Surreal 34.3%, Exploration 12.5%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Adventure 2.6%

A first-person adventure game with a deep plot. You have to get from Tyumen to Novosibirsk on a passenger train. You can look out the window and watch the changing nature, weather and architecture. You can see forests, fields, mountains, cities and villages.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Drama 18%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Stylized 13.1%, Exploration 9.5%

Bite-sized surreal horror with multiple choices. Make your own way through the claymation madness!

Why similar: Dark Humor 27.9%, Surreal 27.7%, Point & Click 16.7%, Stylized 6.5%, Minimalist 5.6%

"Static Sky: And Yet It █████" is a literary computer game based on the fear of and resistance to artificial intelligence. It imagines a future dominated by the generative AI "Sekai", where reality and hallucination blend and become indistinguishable.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.5%, Dystopian 34.3%, Exploration 12.2%, Story Rich 5.4%, Adventure 5.3%

You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.3%, Surreal 19.4%, Dark Humor 18.4%, Dystopian 16.6%, Stylized 9.2%

Greetings New_Employee. Your task in the Company: serve the Client. Follow the instructions, build productive relationships with your colleagues, carry out the desires of the Client, and who knows, the title of Employee of the Week, or even of the Month, might be within your reach.

Why similar: Dystopian 22.7%, Surreal 19%, Satire 18.9% ★, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Stylized 8.6%

Embark on a poetic adventure through the beautiful, ink-painted Winter Island. Explore new paths, collect animal paintings, solve soothing puzzles, uncover the island’s mysteries, and awaken spring.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.7%, Hand-drawn 18.2%, Point & Click 14.6%, Stylized 10.5%, Exploration 9.5%

Coco, the princess of the Creep Zone, is doomed to be decapitated and become only her head by a ritual to imbue her with magical powers. If she can take the throne from her mother, she can stop this ritual... Coco's adventure to become king begins.

Why similar: Dystopian 35.4%, Dark Humor 23.9%, Hand-drawn 18.2%, Point & Click 10.1%, Exploration 6.6%

LaughterLost takes you through a surreal journey of work and family life. Face psychological twists, narrative choices, puzzles, and unexpected unique confrontations! Will you break this dystopian cycle of everyday life?

Why similar: Dark Humor 24.7%, Point & Click 17.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Stylized 14.1%, Surreal 13.6%

That day, we told a lie.

Why similar: Dystopian 21.2%, Surreal 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Stylized 11.5%

Follow a recluse who is the only being left in the world as she struggles with little things in her everyday life. This game was made entirely out of scanned traditional watercolor art.

Why similar: Surreal 26.6%, Hand-drawn 24.8%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Stylized 11%, Walking Simulator 10.3%

Atmospheric first-person retro horror. You are a courier — a disposable tool of the System. Sort, deliver, collect archives. Obey… or uncover what lies inside.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.7%, Dystopian 23.8%, Stylized 13.3%, Exploration 11.1%, Atmospheric 5.5%

Zoe is hit by Truck-kun and respawns in a retro game, where she must face dangers in the form of clichés, meaningless choices, a plot that has more holes than Swiss cheese, and other plagues of modern gaming. Also, every notable person is trying to sing her a song! Will she endure such torment?

Why similar: Satire 21.2% ★, Dark Humor 18.4%, Dystopian 18.1%, Point & Click 12.5%, Visual Novel 11%

Tiara is an exploration-focused narrative game where you play through days (and dream through nights) to uncover the story of Tiara's life.

Why similar: Surreal 30.3%, Walking Simulator 27.1%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Exploration 9.8%, Stylized 8%

The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 44.3%, Surreal 20.6%, Exploration 12.8%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Story Rich 4.7%

A Chain connects you to where you started. Collect coins to extend your Chain. Walk into strangers, they become friends. Collect friends. Collect music. Collect more coins. Collect the Desire to Accumulate. Get a job. Talk to ghosts. Get lost. Go back to where you started. Find your Freedom.

Why similar: Dark Humor 22.4%, Stylized 18.4%, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Surreal 13.4%, Dystopian 10.4%

An obscure collection of 8 surreal and dark horror games.

Why similar: Surreal 21.6%, Dystopian 19.5%, Walking Simulator 18.6%, Stylized 9.7%, Female Protagonist 9.1%

Welcome to Press a Button Simulator: a new and exciting twist on modern video games. Gone is the time of tryhards and sweats, and in is the new age of only pressing a button! Will you find all the secrets? Of course not! There is only one: You get to press a button!

Why similar: Satire 28.9% ★, Surreal 28.1%, Walking Simulator 23.6%, Story Rich 7.2%, Exploration 4.5%

Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.5%, Surreal 29.3%, Exploration 13.6%, Dystopian 11.6%, Atmospheric 11.3%

Sam Bane is travelling cross country to start her new job. But, disaster! Her car broke down and she's been stranded in the woods. As luck would have it, Sam's stumbled across the forest's best kept secret...A quaint little hotel called ‘The Warren’ and it's owner Kylie.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 20.2%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Point & Click 15.7%, Stylized 13.6%

Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

Why similar: Surreal 32.7%, Walking Simulator 18.5%, Dark Humor 14.1%, Stylized 13.4%, Exploration 8.4%

You're the maintenance man for an apartment complex that has mysteriously been transported to the middle of the ocean. Woodrot is a surreal adventure game about getting to know your neighbors who all seem to blame themselves for their recent relocation.

Why similar: Surreal 24.1%, Point & Click 16.4%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Stylized 11.2%

The Palaces of The Mind is a mystical 2D adventure that tells the story of how most ordinary day of two friends turned into a nightmare. Becca, her owl Dolly, and Meg must now escape from the world of the animeds, forest creatures that can smell fear.

Why similar: Dystopian 26.8%, Point & Click 20.9%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Dark Humor 14.8%, Exploration 8.9%

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 39.4%, Surreal 23%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, Exploration 9.3%, Atmospheric 4.8%

A short Visual Novel. Player will play as a reclusive writer who explores in her own dreams by moving and clicking, listening to and recording the story of a dream-prisoner. As the story progresses, she can no longer remain detached ...

Why similar: Dark Humor 23.8%, Point & Click 20.2%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Drama 13.6%, Female Protagonist 13.2%