
Step inside picture frames, films, and other imagery that connect a variety of dreamscapes in this surreal first-person exploration game.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Surreal, Exploration, Walking Simulator, Singleplayer.

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!

The Charity Shop
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.
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 30.1%, Surreal 28.5%, Puzzle 15.7%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Adventure 5.6%
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: Walking Simulator 30.8%, Surreal 23.9%, Exploration 16.3%, Puzzle 14.3%, Atmospheric 11.4%
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 34.7%, Surreal 32.6%, Exploration 16%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Adventure 4.4%
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 20.8%, Walking Simulator 18.9%, Puzzle 17.3%, Exploration 15.8%, Nonlinear 9.7%
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 38.3%, Surreal 30.2%, Exploration 16.4%, Atmospheric 6.2%, Adventure 5.7%
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%, Puzzle 13.9%, Surreal 13.7%, Exploration 13.3%, Nonlinear 11.5%
A first-person exploration game about the eerie stillness of liminal spaces. Solve puzzles and navigate surreal environments. Built entirely on atmosphere, with zero jump scares.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.1%, Surreal 30%, Atmospheric 15.5%, Exploration 12.5%, Adventure 5.7%
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 39.3%, Surreal 20.1%, Exploration 16.7%, Atmospheric 14.4%, Adventure 5.9%
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 30.8%, Walking Simulator 23.7%, Puzzle 12.9%, Exploration 12.2%, Nonlinear 9.1%
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 30.2%, Walking Simulator 24.5%, Nonlinear 17.1%, Exploration 13%, Atmospheric 12.8%
After discovering a strange anomaly on Jupiter's moon, Europa, you find yourself in the outer reaches of a dangerous, uncanny complex.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.1%, Surreal 27%, Exploration 14.4%, Nonlinear 8.9%, Atmospheric 8.5%
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 27.3%, Puzzle 21.2%, Exploration 18.1%, Walking Simulator 12.4%, Atmospheric 12.3%
∆ is an atmospheric exploration experience that takes you on a journey through the dream world into the Beyond.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.8%, Surreal 23%, Nonlinear 18.9%, Exploration 13.4%, Puzzle 12.3%
Car breakdown, deserted road, the dead of night. The only option is to follow the signs to the gas station. But on this last mile, not everything is as it seems.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.7%, Surreal 20.7%, Puzzle 18.1%, Exploration 15.7%, Adventure 9.9%
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 23.1%, Nonlinear 21.7%, Puzzle 14.3%, Exploration 13.9%, Surreal 12%
Embark on a surreal exploration of a digital island. Explore a silent virtual world and discover never-before-seen moments of transformation and hidden paths.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.2%, Surreal 26%, Atmospheric 17.3%, Exploration 11.1%, Adventure 5.9%
What lies beyond The 4th Wall?
Why similar: Surreal 36.4%, Walking Simulator 31.4%, Exploration 14.4%, Puzzle 10.5%, Adventure 4.2%
You are trapped inside your new home, where doors open up to various liminal spaces and anomalies appear around every corner. Will you manage to find your way out?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.8%, Surreal 20.6%, Nonlinear 17.6%, Exploration 14.8%, Puzzle 13.4%
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 33.7%, Puzzle 26.9%, Nonlinear 15.7%, Exploration 13.2%, Indie 4.3%
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 27.6%, Surreal 22.1%, Nonlinear 18.5%, Exploration 14.7%, Atmospheric 10.9%
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 43.6%, Walking Simulator 33.4%, Atmospheric 6.4%, Exploration 5.9%, Indie 5.3%
Exploration. Silence. Echoes. Wander a shifting pyramid where rooms change and reality bends. No monsters, just atmosphere, isolation, and subtle unease. Uncanny, immersive, and unsettling. Solve light environmental puzzles across 8 levels. Experience the pyramid alone - empty, yet somehow present.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.4%, Surreal 26%, Puzzle 13.2%, Atmospheric 10.4%, Exploration 10.3%
May, Be Dead is a first-person surrealist adventure game about walking in an endless hexagonal space and repeatedly killing May, a mysterious figure you shared an intimate yet ambiguous relationship.
Why similar: Surreal 34.3%, Walking Simulator 28.3%, Nonlinear 18.2%, Exploration 7.1%, Atmospheric 6.8%
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 26.2%, Surreal 24.1%, Exploration 20%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Puzzle 8.5%
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 36%, Surreal 26.2%, Exploration 14.9%, Atmospheric 13.4%, Adventure 6%
Exploration-focused walking simulator. Traverse abstract worlds. Interact with enigmatic characters. Collect memories from the one who came before you.
Why similar: Surreal 38.6%, Walking Simulator 31.3%, 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 35.1%, Puzzle 25.7%, Exploration 19.1%, Adventure 11.3%, Indie 8.8%
Wander through bright liminal spaces shaped by distant summer memories. Ride a childhood scooter, reveal hidden paths with Dream Vision, and capture surreal moments with your camera. No combat—just calm exploration.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36%, Surreal 30.4%, Exploration 16.5%, Atmospheric 12.9%, Adventure 3.2%
project_Structure_01 is first-person exploration game focusing on atmosphere and exploration of surreal liminal spaces that feature brutalist architecture.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.6%, Surreal 28.7%, Exploration 16.1%, Atmospheric 15.8%, Adventure 5.7%
Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.
Why similar: Surreal 31.3%, Walking Simulator 29.1%, Exploration 19.3%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Adventure 2.6%
Enter an impossible Library where every book contains a human life. María's book is fading. Explore the quiet island inside her memory and uncover what she could not face.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.5%, Exploration 16.8%, Surreal 14%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Adventure 9.4%
The Augury House is a shifting collection of short experiences and exhibitions. Contents change weekly.
Why similar: Nonlinear 29.7%, Walking Simulator 26.9%, Exploration 22.2%, Atmospheric 15.1%, Indie 3.7%
Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.7%, Surreal 21.5%, Nonlinear 19.6%, Exploration 16%, Atmospheric 6.4%
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 25%, Nonlinear 19.3%, Exploration 15.1%, Puzzle 14.2%, Walking Simulator 10.3%
This game is about reliving mysterious tales surrounding the haunted location, 'Lantern House.'
Why similar: Walking Simulator 52.3%, Exploration 20.2%, Atmospheric 18.1%, Adventure 5.9%, Indie 3.5%
You watch a news program in the middle of the night featuring an unsettling reporter. As you watch, the world around you begins to warp and become unrecognizable. This is one broadcast you won't soon forget.
Why similar: Surreal 33.3%, Walking Simulator 29%, Puzzle 13%, Exploration 12.4%, Atmospheric 8.5%
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 21.1%, Exploration 20.3%, Puzzle 16%, Atmospheric 6.6%
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 35.7%, Puzzle 19.9%, Nonlinear 18.7%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Exploration 6.8%
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 37.6%, Walking Simulator 28.9%, Exploration 8.7%, Atmospheric 6.6%, Adventure 6.1%
A surreal psychological horror game where familiar rooms become strange and unpredictable. Explore your home, uncover hidden details, and experience reality changing around you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.8%, Puzzle 17.5%, Surreal 15.6%, Exploration 15.5%, Atmospheric 8.5%
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 26.4%, Nonlinear 20%, Walking Simulator 19.5%, Exploration 12.3%, Atmospheric 8.2%
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 29.3%, Surreal 22%, Exploration 17%, Puzzle 12.5%, Atmospheric 11.2%
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 38.3%, Surreal 22.1%, Puzzle 17.1%, Adventure 9.9%, Atmospheric 9.1%
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Why similar: Puzzle 29.6%, Walking Simulator 18.6%, Exploration 17.9%, Nonlinear 10.3%, Atmospheric 8.7%
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 31.6%, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Exploration 17.5%, Puzzle 17.2%, Adventure 5.8%
OPEN THE DOOR TO WIN! Question your sanity in this first person exploration and puzzle game. Discover a place where anything you can dream of might just be a door away from you. Go on. Open the door. It's as simple as that!
Why similar: Surreal 26.7%, Walking Simulator 25.5%, Exploration 14.1%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Puzzle 10.8%
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 31%, Surreal 24.2%, Exploration 18.5%, Puzzle 15.9%, Atmospheric 5.7%
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 16%, Nonlinear 13.5%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Surreal 9.9%
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 18.8%, Puzzle 18.7%, Adventure 9.1%, Atmospheric 7.5%
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 28.2%, Surreal 25.8%, Nonlinear 23.2%, Exploration 13.5%, Atmospheric 8.9%
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 31.1%, Walking Simulator 19.3%, Exploration 15.5%, Puzzle 14.5%, Atmospheric 10.6%
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 33.3%, Surreal 32.8%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Exploration 10.2%, Puzzle 4.5%
POOLIMINAL is an atmospheric liminal space horror game set in endless, procedurally generated poolrooms. A Backrooms-inspired descent into thalassophobia, where the real terror lies in the dark water below.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.2%, Surreal 23.5%, Exploration 16.7%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Adventure 9.2%
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 36.7%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Puzzle 18.2%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Atmospheric 6.3%
Please make your way to the top floor. Bob is waiting for you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.4%, Puzzle 16.7%, Surreal 15.8%, Exploration 14.9%, Atmospheric 9.1%
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 25.3%, Walking Simulator 24.8%, Nonlinear 21.4%, Exploration 11%, Atmospheric 10.3%
A calm, dreamlike exploration experience set in a procedurally generated world where shifting landscapes and quiet structures emerge from the haze.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.2%, Surreal 22.4%, Nonlinear 15.5%, Exploration 15%, Atmospheric 11.6%
The staircore has a final destination, but it is not a physical destination. The transitional phase between high and low has become thin, and I have fallen inbetween. Will I ever get out?
Why similar: Surreal 29.4%, Walking Simulator 25.7%, Nonlinear 22.6%, Exploration 15.1%, Adventure 4.6%
A first-person psychological horror game where VHS tapes pull you into corrupted memories inside a flooded liminal complex.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.5%, Surreal 21.4%, Exploration 19.4%, Nonlinear 18.6%, Atmospheric 4.6%
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 32%, Surreal 31.5%, Adventure 13.5%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Indie 11.2%