Games Like Eternal Afternoon

You don't know how you got here, and you don't know how you'll leave. Wander the depths of the Backrooms in hopes of finding something more.

Why similar: Nostalgia 31.8% ★, Surreal 16.1%, 1990's 9.9%, Open World 9%, Retro 9%

Welcome to Liminal Lane. A short, single player, first person, atmospheric walking simulator. A nostalgic, surreal experience exploring Liminal Spaces. Uncover the secrets of Liminal Lane and escape the Lucid Dreams and Haunting Nightmares.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.1%, 1990's 20.2%, Exploration 14.9%, Stylized 12.6%, Adventure 6.5%

The year is 1998. Step into the shoes of a real estate agent, tasked with photographing a seemingly ordinary house for an upcoming sale. Explore the environment, use your camera to take pictur-- wait, what’s that in the last photo?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.5%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Exploration 12.6%, Mystery 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Surreal 18.7%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Stylized 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.3%, Psychological Horror 24.5%, Mystery 11.7%, Story Rich 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%

A short first-person horror game where you wander through an eerie forest using the dials of a microwave.

Why similar: Surreal 24.2%, Walking Simulator 16.7%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Exploration 9.5%, Retro 9.1%

Wander through dreamscapes woven from memories of the millennium. Use your camera to freeze tender fragments of days gone by, collecting lost shards of childhood. In an atmosphere where Chinese Dreamcore and Liminal Space intertwine, savor a warmth that feels both familiar and strange.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.6%, 1990's 23.7%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Exploration 13.1%, Adventure 5.8%

Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!

Why similar: Nostalgia 53.1% ★, 1990's 14.4%, Retro 9.6%, Exploration 8.4%, Story Rich 7.3%

Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.

Why similar: Surreal 25.3%, Retro 20.3%, Open World 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Adventure 10.9%

Enter a world that’s utterly surreal and eerily familiar. Escape the mundanity of your existence in an experience that will stay with you. Mosaic is a narrative-driven modern adventure game with a story that lasts about 2-3 hours.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 54.1%, Adventure 32.9%, Indie 12.9%

The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.5%, Surreal 17.3%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, 1990's 14.2%, Exploration 10.2%

Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.1%, Surreal 19.3%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Retro 9.3%, Stylized 8.2%

HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia. Play as Theo, trapped in CHILDREEF’s daycare, descending floor by floor; surviving the remnants of time. Use the Kids' multi-tool, listen to obscure tapes, and make your way to the lot. She's waiting.

Why similar: Nostalgia 60.3% ★, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Exploration 9%, Story Rich 6.9%, Retro 3.2%

Meet colorful characters, discover mysterious secrets, and reassemble the fractured remains of an ethereal crystal as you explore a series of abstract worlds based on dreams, nightmares, and the places in between.

Why similar: Surreal 23.4%, Walking Simulator 22.2%, 1990's 11.1%, Retro 11.1%, Exploration 10.2%

Lucid Cycle offers a set of short but unique experiences.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.8%, Surreal 20.8%, Mystery 13.3%, Exploration 13.2%, Adventure 6.1%

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 34.3%, Surreal 26.5%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Exploration 8%, 3D 3.4%

The doctor said today was my last appointment, I'm healthy. Time to go home, what could go wrong?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 35%, Surreal 20.9%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Exploration 12.7%, 3D 4.3%

DREAM LOGIC is a story driven first-person atmospheric horror game which takes place in liminal spaces. Explore various nostalgic, dreamlike, uncanny environments. But don't feel too safe, there's a sneaky creature watching your every move.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.1%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Exploration 12.9%, Mystery 10.8%, 1990's 10.4%

Live the perfect day, break the cycle, and discover the truth about yourself in this short, quirky sci-fi mystery about freedom, choice, and loneliness.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 66.6%, Mystery 16.5%, Adventure 7.3%, 3D 5.6%, Story Rich 2.5%

Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 36%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Surreal 17.9%, Exploration 11.9%, Mystery 8.6%

Seybul Tech is a walking simulator. Navigate as an office employee, confronting peculiar encounters while in search of an exit from this enigmatic abyss.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.1%, Surreal 21.1%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, 1990's 11.7%, Exploration 9%

Snap your own homemade liminal space photos using a mysterious SLR camera as you explore a variety of empty, strange, and familiar spaces.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 46.3%, Exploration 22.7%, Retro 17.1%, Adventure 5.5%, 3D 4.6%

You are trapped in a strange dream from which there is no waking. It is stitched from Chinese nostalgia, childhood echoes, and liminal spaces—where sense and nonsense blend freely. All you can do is keep exploring, until you must choose: return to restless reality, or stay in the dream forever?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.1%, Surreal 29.8%, Exploration 13.6%, Retro 10.4%, Adventure 3.4%

Narrative-driven first person horror adventure inspired by Lovecraft's short novel "The Nameless City". Explore the ruins of a city that some say they are older than humanity itself. While you delve deeper into the ancient buildings, reality and visions blend into an indistinct haze.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.9%, Surreal 22.1%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Retro 11%, Exploration 6.7%

EPONYMOUS: In Which a Work Is Known by Its Reading is a short-form narrative about unreliable infrastructures.

Why similar: Surreal 24.5%, Walking Simulator 24.5%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Exploration 9.5%, Mystery 9.3%

The Elision Effect is a short surreal puzzle game. The last person finds themselves in an empty office. The place seems off, like it shouldn’t exist. Not knowing what made everyone abandon these liminal spaces, they look for an exit.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28%, Surreal 24.6%, Retro 12%, Exploration 10%, Stylized 8.9%

Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.4%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Surreal 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Mystery 7.9%

You arrive at a deserted street that feels familiar yet is filled with unease. Pick up your camera, capture the hidden anomalies, and break this endless loop.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.6%, Surreal 22.6%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Adventure 5.9%, 3D 5.5%

Time is relative. Sometimes 10 seconds can feel like an eternity... In TIMEframe you will discover a world in slow motion. Explore the remnants of a mysterious civilization on the brink of destruction.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 62.7%, Exploration 17%, Stylized 11.8%, Adventure 4.4%, Indie 4.1%

Get lost beneath the fog in The Wild Eternal, a reflective first-person exploration game. Embark on a meditative journey to heal the scars of your past. Can you escape the cycle of reincarnation?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.5%, Surreal 12.9%, Exploration 12.8%, Open World 10.4%, Mystery 9.7%

Three short ghost stories. Three everyday locations turned nightmare. Tales of the Forgotten is a PSX-style horror anthology perfect for a single terrifying session. Experience jump scares, uncover multiple endings, and discover why these ghosts can't rest—all in under an hour.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.2%, 1990's 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Surreal 14.9%, Exploration 8.4%

Forgotten Fields is a game about yearning and nostalgia. Play as Sid - a struggling writer who travels back to his childhood home one last time before it's sold off. Visit old friends, relive memories and play through sections of Sid's book in this warm game about the passage of time.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 37.5%, Conversation 32.8%, Story Rich 11.7%, Stylized 10.1%, Adventure 6.1%

A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.7%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, 1990's 14.6%, Exploration 13.2%, Mystery 9.3%

Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.2%, Surreal 14.9%, Open World 14.1%, Exploration 10.9%, Mystery 10.7%

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.7%, Retro 15.3%, Adventure 14.6%, Mystery 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%

Unable to sleep, you navigate a quiet condo complex. There's no rush - just you, the building, its inhabitants, and the stories they hold.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 54.7%, Exploration 18.3%, Adventure 7.1%, Retro 6.6%, Story Rich 5.1%

Embark on a surrealistic afterlife journey to discover the secrets of the broken and mysterious Plane of Memory in this cinematic adventure with a hint of stealth. Dive into a wonderful voxel world with an intense atmosphere and save the day!

Why similar: Exploration 38.2%, Story Rich 27.6%, 3D 14%, Adventure 12.8%, Singleplayer 7.3%

Liminal City is a psychological horror and exploration game based on found footage, set in Backrooms Level 11. Walk through the streets of Level 11, filled with soulless buildings, dynamically moving to different levels and searching for a way out. Once you fall in here will you be able to get out?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.4%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Exploration 12.2%, Surreal 10.2%, Mystery 8.5%

Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.4%, Surreal 21.8%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Exploration 10.9%, Mystery 2.9%

Experience the liminal world of the backrooms through a VHS camera, immersing into a mysterious story and wandering the dream-like structures... Might there be something following you?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.3%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, 1990's 13.4%, Exploration 11.6%, Open World 11.5%

A surreal first person walking sim about the end of humanity. Explore magnificent sky-bound ruins, and learn why they were built.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 62%, Exploration 9.6%, Stylized 7.9%, Adventure 7.6%, Story Rich 6%

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: Walking Simulator 15.8%, Surreal 15.2%, 1990's 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Retro 9.6%

A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 44.2%, Exploration 16.6%, Mystery 12%, Stylized 11.2%, Adventure 6.3%

You woke up and found yourself in an anomalous endless place from which it is not so easy to get out. Carefully observe your surroundings to find a way out of this place.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 50.3%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Adventure 13%, Stylized 12.8%, 3D 5.4%

wandering into the uncanny concept of liminality, captured in DV tape format you explore what seems to be another dimension, lost in an endless space that looks human-made but isn't.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 80.6%, Exploration 12.9%, Adventure 3.6%, Indie 2.9%

Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.3%, Surreal 23.5%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Exploration 11.5%, Mystery 8.3%

Eschaton is a short, experimental, surreal first-person exploration game. Explore the 'aftermath' of a cult ritual in the grounds of a manor in the remote and picturesque Scottish Highlands.

Why similar: Surreal 33.3%, Walking Simulator 26.7%, Exploration 11.9%, Stylized 11.8%, Mystery 11.4%

You've only precious moments before time collapses onto itself to save your family. Warp, jump and rewind through time and space - and pray that whatever lives between it doesn't notice you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 61.6%, Exploration 17.3%, Adventure 15%, Singleplayer 6%

On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?

Why similar: Surreal 23%, Walking Simulator 22.5%, Conversation 11.7%, Exploration 9.8%, Stylized 8.7%

Trapped in a hallucinatory, liminal-space style underground passageway, explore and unravel the endless "dead-end" paths to find a way forward. "Dead Path is a short ambient horror puzzle game that references Exit 8, but with a completely different core mechanic.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.7%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Surreal 14%, Exploration 11.5%, Roguelike 10.8%

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: Walking Simulator 28.8%, Surreal 23.2%, Exploration 9.5%, Stylized 9.2%, Story Rich 8.6%

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 32.7%, Walking Simulator 32%, Exploration 12.7%, Stylized 8.4%, Adventure 6.5%

There is only you and the Forest. In "Rooten" there are no compulsory tasks, time just goes by, and days pass by independently of you. You can explore the Forest, try to get out, or even do nothing at all. The forest has always been here, and always will be. You won't change it no matter what.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.5%, Surreal 14.9%, Open World 13.8%, Exploration 12.6%, Story Rich 9%

Steve Jackson, a 19-year-old high schooler, is looking after a friends house and encounters eerie events in a small town. Dive into the dark mystery of the events you unwittingly became a part of. Will you be able to uncover the truth?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Conversation 24.5%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, 1990's 8.9%, Stylized 8.1%

This is a retro horror game about the war in Ukraine and brutalist architecture in Eastern Europe

Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.8%, Exploration 15.6%, Surreal 11.9%, Story Rich 10.3%, Psychological Horror 9.3%

Aleph is an enigmatic cube, a repository of human lore and simulacra. After the fall of human civilization, as a traveler, you depart from the space station and eventually reach the ruins of the dilapidated city, searching for scattered cubes to read the images and texts left behind by humanity.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 44.7%, Surreal 26.5%, Exploration 20%, Adventure 6.1%, Indie 1.5%

They have no names, only serial numbers. They have no freedom, no memories from the past. You are one of them. Explore the last center of civilization on a shattered Earth to understand what is really going on.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 46.5%, Exploration 20.4%, Mystery 15.2%, Adventure 13.3%, Indie 4.7%

An indie psychological horror experience about surviving infinity. Navigate an endless expanse of rooms, ascend through various levels, gather items and artifacts, avoid going insane, evade corrupted entities, and see just how deep the realm known as The Backrooms goes.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.8%, Psychological Horror 24.7%, Surreal 16.7%, Stylized 11.3%, Adventure 6.4%

Closer To Home is a dialogue-focused surreal horror exploration game. Navigate connections between reality and dreams, look for weird stuff and make friends. There is no reason to fear death.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.8%, Psychological Horror 24%, Stylized 15.9%, Story Rich 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%