60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Surreal, Adventure, Indie, Exploration.
Step inside picture frames, films, and other imagery that connect a variety of dreamscapes in this surreal first-person exploration game.
MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!
Manalith
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.
MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.8%, Surreal 28.5%, Puzzle 15.7%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Adventure 5.5%
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 34.5%, Surreal 32.8%, Exploration 16%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Adventure 4.3%
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
Why similar: Surreal 21.1%, Walking Simulator 19%, Puzzle 17.1%, Exploration 15.8%, Nonlinear 9.6%
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 38.1%, Surreal 30.4%, Exploration 16.5%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Adventure 5.5%
Immerse yourself in poolcore-inspired vibes as you explore a vast complex of mind-bending liminal architecture straight out of your dreams. Navigate through a facility filled with obstacles and puzzles, venturing into depths that descend far below the rippling, chlorinated waters.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.9%, Surreal 13.8%, Puzzle 13.8%, Exploration 13.4%, Nonlinear 11.5%
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 39%, Surreal 20.2%, Exploration 16.7%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Adventure 5.8%
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 31%, Walking Simulator 23.6%, Puzzle 12.8%, Exploration 12.2%, Nonlinear 9.1%
Tiara is an exploration-focused narrative game where you play through a number of days (and dream through a number of nights) to uncover the story of Tiara's life.
Why similar: Surreal 30.2%, Walking Simulator 24.3%, Nonlinear 17%, Exploration 13%, Atmospheric 12.9%
∆ is an atmospheric exploration experience that takes you on a journey through the dream world into the Beyond.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.7%, Surreal 23.2%, Nonlinear 18.9%, Exploration 13.5%, Puzzle 12.2%
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
Why similar: Surreal 27.4%, Puzzle 20.9%, Exploration 18.2%, Atmospheric 12.5%, Walking Simulator 12.3%
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
Why similar: Surreal 33.9%, Puzzle 26.5%, Nonlinear 15.8%, Exploration 13.2%, Indie 4.4%
Explore and solve your way through the gloomy halls in which you find yourself stuck. Thinking symmetrically will be key! Isolated and environmental puzzles feature in this first-person puzzle experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23%, Nonlinear 21.7%, Puzzle 14.1%, Exploration 14%, Surreal 12.1%
What lies beyond The 4th Wall?
Why similar: Surreal 36.7%, Walking Simulator 31.3%, Exploration 14.4%, Puzzle 10.3%, Adventure 4.1%
DIRUS Software's lost 1999 cult-classic is back! Explore its confusing and stygian world for yourself in this newly remastered edition, and uncover the mystery of its warped labyrinths and crossroads. Find hidden secrets unknown even to the original developers.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, Surreal 22.2%, Nonlinear 18.5%, Exploration 14.7%, Atmospheric 11.1%
You're stranded at a cathedral-like train station in the near future, searching for a ticket out of town. Explore the secret passageways, interact with strangers, dig for records, and get hypnotized by the soundtrack – a batch of original music courtesy of the band, Archie Pelago.
Why similar: Surreal 44.1%, Walking Simulator 32.6%, Atmospheric 6.6%, Exploration 6%, Indie 5.4%
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26%, Surreal 24.4%, Exploration 19.9%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Puzzle 8.4%
Exploration-focused walking simulator. Traverse abstract worlds. Interact with enigmatic characters. Collect memories from the one who came before you.
Why similar: Surreal 38.8%, Walking Simulator 31.1%, Nonlinear 24.6%, Adventure 2.4%, Indie 2.2%
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 35.4%, Puzzle 25.4%, Exploration 19.2%, Adventure 11%, Indie 9%
TAMAGORUDO - Floor 0 - is an atmospheric psychological horror game. You will find yourself stuck in a parallel floor of the Backrooms, trying to break out of the loop of a chicken-or-the-egg paradox. Will you find the answer to this endless question ?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.8%, Surreal 26.3%, Exploration 15%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Adventure 5.8%
Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.
Why similar: Surreal 30.5%, Walking Simulator 29.8%, Exploration 19.4%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Adventure 2.6%
project_Structure_01 is first-person exploration game focusing on atmosphere and exploration of surreal liminal spaces that feature brutalist architecture.
Why similar: Surreal 29.2%, Walking Simulator 29.1%, Exploration 16%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Adventure 5.6%
The Augury House is a shifting collection of short experiences and exhibitions. Contents change weekly.
Why similar: Nonlinear 29.6%, Walking Simulator 26.8%, Exploration 22.2%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Indie 3.7%
This game is about reliving mysterious tales surrounding the haunted location, 'Lantern House.'
Why similar: Walking Simulator 52.1%, Exploration 20.3%, Atmospheric 18.3%, Adventure 5.7%, Indie 3.5%
B-Line is a short knowledge-based walking simulator game. Explore different worlds and discover how to get out of the station.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.2%, Surreal 22.2%, Exploration 17.1%, Puzzle 12.4%, Atmospheric 11.4%
A humorous adventure set in a 3D parody of the internet. Diverse puzzles, beautiful worlds, friends, experiences, upgrades and more, await those who 'log on'!
Why similar: Surreal 38%, Walking Simulator 28.8%, Exploration 8.4%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Adventure 6.1%
LUBA is a walking simulator with platforming elements. Explore a mysterious place and find your way using light and shadow.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.1%, Surreal 21.2%, Exploration 20.4%, Puzzle 15.8%, Atmospheric 6.7%
What Has Come Before is a perspective-driven puzzle game set in an eerie and stylish black and white Lynchian world. Stuck in limbo with only hearing and vision to guide, players must utilize clever changes in perspective to move forward.
Why similar: Surreal 35.9%, Puzzle 19.6%, Nonlinear 18.7%, Atmospheric 12%, Exploration 6.8%
Help a little soul go through a unique and wonderful world. Explore the area, solve puzzles, find scraps of memories to help the hero reunite with his family and find out why Death didn't come for him.
Why similar: Surreal 28.7%, Nonlinear 16.9%, Exploration 15.6%, Puzzle 14.3%, Walking Simulator 9.4%
Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.
Why similar: Surreal 26.6%, Nonlinear 20%, Walking Simulator 19.3%, Exploration 12.4%, Atmospheric 8.4%
77th: The Game is an abstract representation of the experience of joining an online community. Walk through the community and solve the puzzles to progress as a community member.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.2%, Surreal 22.3%, Puzzle 16.9%, Adventure 9.7%, Atmospheric 9.2%
The Charity Shop is an atmospheric, surreal, first-person puzzle game where you use your camera to capture the essence of a life lived. To this end, you have been delivered to The Charity Shop, the place where people donate unwanted belongings—each carrying an imprint of the time they once shared.
Why similar: Surreal 48.2%, Puzzle 18.4%, Atmospheric 14.8%, Exploration 12.2%, Adventure 5.6%
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Why similar: Puzzle 29.4%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Exploration 18%, Nonlinear 10.1%, Atmospheric 8.8%
Ether One is a first person adventure that deals with the fragility of the human mind. There are two paths in the world you can choose from. At its core is a story exploration path free from puzzles where you can unfold the story at your own pace.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.8%, Exploration 19%, Puzzle 18.5%, Adventure 8.9%, Atmospheric 7.7%
Explore liminal spaces that feel eerily familiar and fire the imagination, like a dream you’ve already visited.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.6%, Nonlinear 21.1%, Surreal 20.8%, Exploration 16.5%, Atmospheric 5.7%
From the creators of What Remains of Edith Finch. Enter the surreal world of The Unfinished Swan and explore a mysterious, hidden kingdom by splatting paint to reveal the world around you.
Why similar: Surreal 31.7%, Walking Simulator 18%, Exploration 17.7%, Puzzle 17.1%, Adventure 5.7%
Two games in one! - Prove you are not human by completing 9 impossible challenges. - Explore various scenes directly inspired by a poem, solving a few riddles along the way.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.9%, Surreal 24.4%, Exploration 18.6%, Puzzle 15.7%, Atmospheric 5.8%
The Transitions is a psychological horror game set in the eerie Backrooms universe. Explore unsettling liminal spaces, solve mind-bending puzzles, and evade the horrors lurking within. As you delve deeper, reality begins to blur—will you escape, or lose yourself forever?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.4%, Puzzle 15.8%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Surreal 10%
The Wetrooms is a surreal liminal space pools horror game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.3%, Surreal 31.9%, Exploration 11.3%, Puzzle 8.6%, Atmospheric 7.1%
You have stumbled upon a museum you might have not intended to find. But it called to you. And you realized you ended up someplace…roiling…alive. If you interact with the art, some speak while others hold bygone echoes. You’ve heeded the call. It’s up to you now to explore.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28%, Surreal 25.9%, Nonlinear 23.2%, Exploration 13.6%, Atmospheric 9%
Kaisuo is a single-player puzzle game about opening Chinese puzzle boxes that unlock surreal worlds. Journey through a strange landscape and discover new uses to familiar objects. Slide open panels, discover secret compartments and change the way you see the world.
Why similar: Surreal 31.3%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Exploration 15.5%, Puzzle 14.3%, Atmospheric 10.8%
A slow burn walking sim with an interactive soundtrack and horror vibes. You explore abstract locations and create your own unique sound for each of them by moving around and using Monoliths.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.1%, Surreal 32.9%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Exploration 10.2%, Puzzle 4.4%
Kult Rising is an atmospheric exploration game that allows you to explore the Backrooms. Wander through the surreal, dreamlike world of Sxlaris, a canon combining The SCP Foundation, with The Backrooms.
Why similar: Surreal 25.4%, Walking Simulator 24.7%, Nonlinear 21.3%, Exploration 11%, Atmospheric 10.4%
You wake up in a place that shouldn’t exist: endless corridors, flickering lights, and a hum that never stops. At the start of each level, you receive instructions from an unknown source. Who is sending them? What do they want from you?
Why similar: Surreal 37%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, Puzzle 18%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Atmospheric 6.4%
Dream is an exploration game that takes place within the subconscious mind of Howard Phillips, a young man whose waking hours are tedious and dull, but whose dreams are lucid and powerful.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.1%, Exploration 20%, Atmospheric 11.4%, Puzzle 10%, Surreal 8.7%
Please make your way to the top floor. Bob is waiting for you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.4%, Puzzle 16.5%, Surreal 15.9%, Exploration 15%, Atmospheric 9.2%
100 Tiny Levels. Stumble down a surreal rabbit hole and explore an atmospheric world composed of one hundred visually rich dreamscapes. This micro adventure takes about one hour to play straight through. Follow a girl and a mysterious bird through the wormholes of an eclectic universe.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.8%, Surreal 31.7%, Adventure 13.1%, Atmospheric 12%, Indie 11.4%
Lingo is a first person word puzzle game with a large, abstract world to explore. With its epiphany-driven gameplay and impossible geometry, Lingo provides a unique and nonlinear experience.
Why similar: Surreal 29.5%, Nonlinear 24.4%, Puzzle 17.6%, Exploration 13.8%, Atmospheric 5.5%
I wolf down a cold, lonely meal. Work's wearing me down, and money's shaky. The syrup I pour into my cold coffee never mixes, no matter how much I stir. So I figure I'll just wander around in my dreams.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 51.3%, Exploration 22.2%, Atmospheric 16.9%, Adventure 7.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Reality blurs and turns surreal. You find yourself trapped in a maze of endless twisting hallways and rooms, with nothing but your fading wits to guide you back to freedom. Explore the backrooms and try to survive in this single player adventure - or team up with three friends!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.1%, Surreal 25.3%, Nonlinear 20.8%, Exploration 15.3%, Atmospheric 6.8%
Paradise Nowhere is a Backrooms game that blends abstract concepts with realistic graphics, evoking a feeling of liminality through empty spaces devoid of life. The game isn’t intended as a horror experience, your feelings towards liminal spaces might make it one. Or maybe, it's just the Paradise...
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Nonlinear 22.8%, Surreal 21.5%, Exploration 11.7%, Atmospheric 8.8%
Through the lens of VHS camera, you are given the task of unraveling the twisted framework of seemingly never-ending liminal spaces, also known as the backrooms. Explore unique narrative driven themes of solitude, mystery, and horror.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.5%, Exploration 16%, Surreal 15.8%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Atmospheric 10.8%
A portal to another dimension; A world abandoned. Journey Into The Soup and uncover the mysteries of a strange new reality in this atmospheric first-person puzzle adventure game.
Why similar: Surreal 24.7%, Walking Simulator 22.8%, Puzzle 11.8%, Exploration 11.4%, Adventure 9.9%
Survive a deadly descent from a mountain peak. One wrong step ends it all. Be slow, focused, and patient caution is your only ally in this unforgiving journey. There’s no map, no help just you, your instincts, and the will to make it out alive. One mistake, and it’s all over.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 45%, Exploration 20.5%, Atmospheric 20.2%, Adventure 12.9%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Angstraum is an oppressive horror game that traps you in a threatening, never-ending loop. Observe your surroundings, uncover deviant anomalies, and escape deadly threats to find the exit.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.7%, Surreal 20.8%, Exploration 15.6%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Puzzle 7%
Explore a looping supermarket aisle in a first-person psychological horror walking simulator. Observe the environment to spot anomalies: turn back when something is wrong, otherwise move forward. Progress reveals a story of guilt and grief, as a man searches for his lost wife and son.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.8%, Surreal 21.8%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Puzzle 12.3%, Exploration 11.6%
John, a single father, inherits a collection of arcane objects from his mysterious relative named Mo. Over time, John and his daughter Charlotte begin to realise that these objects have unusual properties: the more they are exposed to them, the more their reality and memories appear to change.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.4%, Nonlinear 30%, Exploration 13.5%, Indie 11.6%, Atmospheric 11.1%
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 46.5%, Surreal 44.7%, Adventure 7.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%
You are aboard an endless train. Find anomalies, report them, and move on. But be careful—missing just one may cost you the loop.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 44.9%, Exploration 25.9%, Atmospheric 15.6%, Adventure 9%, Indie 3.4%
Sans Logique is a first-person game that blends puzzle and adventure gameplay. You'll explore different dreamlike worlds, discover the story of your character, and solve some original puzzles.
Why similar: Surreal 32%, Walking Simulator 26.3%, Puzzle 17.4%, Exploration 15.8%, Adventure 6.1%
As a small flea, explore inside a handcrafted puzzle box filled with shapes and secrets. Gather strange items with hidden abilities, and unravel a trail of visual clues as you attempt to escape the box.
Why similar: Surreal 27.7%, Exploration 22.5%, Nonlinear 20.6%, Puzzle 16.6%, Atmospheric 5.6%
