- #1 Freud's Bones-the game
97% matchVery Positive82% of 83 reviews2022
Dev: Katabasi StudioPub: Fortuna Imperatore AxelFox
Windows
Infiltrate, rule and rescue the mind of the father of Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, in this surreal and obscure adventure. Take control of his inner voice, choose his destiny, solve clinical cases, save or condemn your patients, all whilst trying to save Freud from himself.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #2 CINERIS SOMNIA
96% matchVery Positive89% of 808 reviews2018
Dev: NAYUTA STUDIOPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
"I hope that someday, you'll dream of me." -- CINERIS SOMNIA is a 3D adventure through a beautifully strange and mesmerizing world - and a young girl's cruel and forlorn dreams.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 69.1%, Casual 30.9%
- #3 Into A Dream
96% matchVery Positive91% of 76 reviews2020
Dev: Filipe F. Thomaz
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are his last hope. The only one who can rescue him. Delve deep into the dreams of Luke Williams, a man diagnosed with depression, unfold the heartbreaking story of his life and prevent him from... fading away.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 65.6%, Indie 34.4%
- #4 Awakening Sarah
94% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Asteristic Game Studio
Windows · Linux
Awakening Sarah is a 2D platformer with emphasis on exploration. Unravel the dreams and realities of Sarah, a girl who's recovering from a coma, while helping her understand the world around her and herself.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 70%, Casual 30%
- #5 LSD Dream Emulator: Vaporwave (Wanderlust)
95% matchMixed48% of 117 reviews2017
Dev: Eternity Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 31%
LSD Dream Emulator: Vaporwave (Wanderlust) is a first person exploration game that takes you to a journey between worlds. Inspired by the original PSX game.
Why similar: RPG 43.8%, Casual 33.1%, Indie 23.1%
- #6 Jung's Labyrinth
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 70 reviews2020
Dev: Jan Jileček
Windows · Mac
Jung's Labyrinth is a psychological exploration game that uses Jungian psychology, mythology, alchemical and dream symbolism in a series of active imaginations to map the process of individuation. Confront your inner archetypes, collect messages that other travelers left behind and reach your Self.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 72.5%, Indie 27.5%
- #7 书之旅人 Story Walker
93% matchVery Positive95% of 187 reviews2022
Dev: KARELITSUN薰
Windows
"Story Walker" is a leisure collection puzzle solving Chinese game. The game tells the story of the new book wizard entering the book world to collect elves.Players need to control the hostess to explore in the scene, and have a small journey with the game characters.
Why similar: Casual 55.4%, RPG 31%, Indie 13.6%
- #8 The Heart of Influencer
91% matchVery Positive90% of 325 reviews2025
Dev: Mountain and Sea Studio
Windows
You are entrusted with training five "troubled" influencers from Mountain & Sea Media, and gain the “Heart Probe” ability which allows you to uncover girls’ inner thoughts. Use your wisdom and ability to help them meet their training KPIs, while discovering their real selves beneath their facades.
Why similar: RPG 69.3%, Casual 30.7%
- #9 DMT: Dream Dealer Trip
92% matchMixed55% of 233 reviews2016
Dev: Eternity Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 98%
DMT: Dream Dealer is a walking simulator that guides you trough a trip between worlds. You'll never know if what you see is real, or if you are in a trance. A game made to delight your sensory system, inspired by titles like The Stanley Parable, Dear Esther, Gone Home...
Why similar: Casual 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #10 103
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 200 reviews2018
Dev: Dystopia Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Help Lily use her imagination to unlock her memories and relive the events of a night that changed her life. Discover what happened and what is 103.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 53.2%, Casual 27.4%, Indie 19.5%
- #11 StrangeDream
89% matchVery Positive82% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: 草地w
Windows
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 57.7%, Casual 24%, Indie 18.4%
- #12 Dreaming Sarah
88% matchVery Positive91% of 2,855 reviews2015
Dev: Asteristic Game Studio
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Dreaming Sarah is an adventure platformer where you play as Sarah, a girl who is in a coma. Explore the world around her and help her wake up!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 62.5%, Casual 37.5%
- #13 Red Gate
90% matchMostly Negative21% of 240 reviews2019
Dev: uora
Windows
Red Gate is a story of a soldier in a remote country. As the old saying goes, the player tries to pass through the gate and help people. But power comes at a price.ple.
Why similar: RPG 61.6%, Indie 38.4%
- #14 百禾梦境漫游 Wandering Dreams of Yuri
86% matchVery Positive91% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: 琉璃花糖制作组Pub: u-secret studio
Windows
She becomes Alice of the fairy tale world and joins forces with the mysterious Zixuan to explore the twisted world of fantasy: name-grabbing factions, invisible witches ...... In their light-hearted adventures, they gradually uncover the truth and endeavour to return to reality.
Why similar: RPG 61.1%, Casual 38.9%
- #15 梦乡 The Dreamcatcher
87% matchVery Positive85% of 119 reviews2020
Dev: Huanlin Games
Windows
The Dreamcatcher is a single player first person psychological adventure set in the modern times. You play as a young man who has just started his life in a big city. You will adventure into different dream worlds, overcome obstacles in the dreams with the help from outside the dreams.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 72.7%, Indie 27.3%
- #16 CODE CRACKER 代码破译者
86% matchVery Positive90% of 160 reviews2019
Dev: 致意
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive nostalgic dream of that golden old age with the retrospective graphic. In this game, you play as a college student who meets diverse characters and solve multiple puzzles together with them. The story unfolds in different ways corresponding to the choices you made along with the gameplay.
Why similar: RPG 48.1%, Casual 28.6%, Indie 23.3%
- #17 Project Morpheus: Prologue
85% matchVery Positive82% of 542 reviews2021
Dev: Team RangerPub: Lightning Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Welcome to Project: Morpheus, you will reprise yourself as EAST, and play your way in this world where reality and dreams collide.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #18 YiYi
84% matchVery Positive93% of 201 reviews2022
Dev: 埋月山枯
Windows
You are "GUI", you have come to a city of eternal night, to find your soul to dream of "Yi Yi".
Why similar: RPG 56.9%, Indie 23.1%, Casual 20%
- #19 Room of Depression
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 800 reviews2023
Dev: FirePillar2Pub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
"Same encounter, different world." Moon is a young woman who lives an ordinary city life as an office worker. However, because she suffers from depression, she reacts and deals with things in a way that is very different from regular city folk.
Why similar: Casual 90.3%, Indie 9.7%
- #20 NIDANA
82% matchVery Positive88% of 176 reviews2025
Dev: lvl374Pub: PLAYISM
Windows
She continues to dream. A first-person dream simulator where you explore a corner of a dream.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 82.9%, Indie 17.1%
- #21 Connected Hearts - Visual novel
84% matchVery Positive89% of 339 reviews2017
Dev: Eternal Night StudiosPub: Stw Projects
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Gary is caught in a strange dream and now he must overcome the adversities on his path or perish in the attempt. In this adventure you will meet 3 children in dream-like scenarios, next to a mysterious girl who talks about a promise.
Why similar: Casual 54.7%, Indie 45.3%
- #22 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
79% matchVery Positive93% of 19,673 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #23 When the Darkness comes
81% matchVery Positive92% of 8,408 reviews2019
Dev: Sirhaian
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 71%, Indie 29%
- #24 Blind Touch
80% matchNo user reviews91% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: Flygogo Games
Windows
A "Blind" simulator that lets you experience a new perspective and immersive sensory journey. Step into a world of darkness using your guide cane.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 62.6%, Indie 20.7%, Casual 16.7%
- #25 The Longest Walk
81% matchVery Positive96% of 398 reviews2022
Dev: Alexander TarvetPub: Somewhat Unsettling
Windows
The Longest Walk is a deeply personal biographical walking-simulator game about my father's experience of living with depression.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 54.8%, Casual 28.8%, Indie 16.4%
- #26 Journal
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 351 reviews2014
Dev: Locked Door PuzzlePub: Lupus Studios Limited
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
Why similar: Indie 42.2%, Walking Simulator 39%, Casual 18.8%
- #27 Afterdream
79% matchVery Positive93% of 339 reviews2023
Dev: Jesse MakkonenPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
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 100%
- #28 Director Simulator
78% matchVery Positive85% of 615 reviews2024
Dev: GOLDEN AGE
Windows · Mac
You, who lack talent, always have strange dreams. Until one day, all kinds of beautiful women from dreams entered your life one by one. You will experience an unprecedented legendary journey from a first person perspective.
Why similar: RPG 62.3%, Casual 37.7%
- #29 daydream 白日夢
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,184 reviews2022
Dev: Alright Peaches Studio
Windows
This is a campus daily galgame, I hope you like it. 这是一款校园日常galgame,希望大家能喜欢。 これは日常系&学園モノのギャルゲーです。皆さん楽しんでいただけたら幸いです。
Why similar: RPG 58.4%, Casual 41.6%
- #30 False Dream
75% matchVery Positive97% of 475 reviews2024
Dev: TenkaiGames
Windows
You find yourself trapped in a dream. If you capture anomalies in the dream with a camera, you might be able to escape.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 56.1%, Casual 27.4%, Indie 16.5%
- #31 Dream
78% matchMixed56% of 992 reviews2015
Dev: HyperSloth
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 49.8%, Indie 31.2%, Casual 19%
- #32 Faded Grey
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 166 reviews2021
Dev: Derek Golliher
Windows
A short find it game that helps you make sense of a tragic accident as you uncover a piece of the story with each item found.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 75.5%, Casual 24.5%
- #33 Depression The Game
77% matchMixed69% of 310 reviews2018
Dev: DeepWorks Studios
Windows
Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 100%
- #34 Biphase
74% matchVery Positive96% of 265 reviews2021
Dev: Seasun Seed
Windows
Biphase is a 2D platform jumping game with exploration and puzzles as its core. In the game, the player plays a role who has bipolar disorder, trying to discover and break through the self in the abstract red and black world.
Why similar: Casual 38.9%, RPG 32.2%, Indie 28.9%
- #35 Yume Nikki
73% matchVery Positive94% of 9,908 reviews2018
Dev: kikiyamaPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 72.0 hrs≥1hr: 46%
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 50%, Indie 27.9%, Casual 22.1%
- #36 7 Days
71% matchVery Positive100% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: Daver The DavePub: IC Industries
Windows
Step into a world where dreams and reality mix. You find yourself in a dream-like world, and explore a different traumatic experience each day. Your choice determines if the boy accepts these moments and moves on, or stays in the past.
Why similar: RPG 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #37 Millennium Dream
69% matchVery Positive93% of 2,248 reviews2026
Dev: LucidDreamLab
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 81.6%, Casual 18.4%
- #38 The Orphan Dreams
76% matchMixed66% of 58 reviews2016
Dev: Tayfun Tuna
Windows
The Orphan Dreams is a permadeath adventure game combined with RPG elements. Step into the universe of The Orphan, who in his dream finds a letter from his own mother he has never seen before.
Why similar: RPG 44.8%, Casual 32.7%, Indie 22.5%
- #39 Soma Spirits: Rebalance
74% matchVery Positive94% of 65 reviews2017
Dev: Torch60
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Guide Heart and Soul, the guardian spirits of Soma, through a divided realm in a colorful RPG adventure where your choices decide the fate of the world.
Why similar: RPG 68.6%, Indie 31.4%
- #40 Flandre's dream. - 36000 ft deep -
73% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2019
Dev: KAWASAKI-BUPub: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
Windows
Save Flandre who is caught in deep sleep and can not wake up. Gently evolving Touhou secondary creation RPG which gently raises and challenges the monsters of the deformed Touhou project. Follow the story with more than 130 articles of Flandre and characters!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 YIIK Nameless Psychosis
69% matchVery Positive92% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Ackk StudiosPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Experience a sneak peek of YIIK I.V! Step beyond Alex Eggleston's story and become the Nameless Child, a young girl pushed from a mysterious tower. Guide her through a surreal dimension where she must find a way to save both the Good Brother and the Bad Brother.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #42 Lucid Dream Adventure
72% matchVery Positive83% of 231 reviews2018
Dev: Dali Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Lucid Dream is the story of little Lucy, who goes on an adventure into the world of dreams with the mission to save her mother.
Why similar: Indie 71.5%, Casual 28.5%
- #43 Promesa
71% matchVery Positive87% of 190 reviews2020
Dev: Julián Palacios Gechtman
Windows · Mac
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 80.7%, Indie 19.3%
- #44 Therapy Simulator
69% matchVery Positive83% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Jemboy
Windows
Step into the chair of a therapist in Therapy Simulator! Guide your patients through emotional journeys with branching dialogue choices. Balance humor, humanity, and the chaos of therapy!
Why similar: Casual 64.2%, Indie 35.8%
- #45 Have a Nice Dream
68% matchVery Positive93% of 4,858 reviews2021
Dev: 榭季生
Windows
A story about dreams. Explore a weird house and find the truth. A short game with mild puzzles and some psychological horror elements.
Why similar: RPG 84.7%, Indie 15.3%
- #46 Brick Exorcist
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Fish Chain Games
Windows
"Brick Exorcist" is a casual bishojo brick break game! You accidentally crossed into another world and became an exorcist. With the help of the goddess, you exorcised the beautiful girl who was possessed by the devil!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #47 藏梦 Hidden Dream
70% matchVery Positive89% of 85 reviews2022
Dev: 锈钻游戏工作室Pub: 芒果互娱
Windows
“Hidden Dream” is a game about puzzle, exploration and collection in horizontal version. In this game, players are supposed to participate in the story about how did Princess Wencheng complete her journey to Tibet that for getting marry with Srongtsen Gampo in Princess Wencheng’s fantasy world.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.1%, RPG 32.9%, Casual 19.1%, Indie 11.8%
- #48 From Head to Toe
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 105 reviews2019
Dev: Party for Introverts
Windows · Mac
"From Head to Toe" is a short interactive story about winter, existential guilt and your ex-classmates.
Why similar: Casual 42.9%, Indie 32%, Walking Simulator 25%
- #49 Cavern of Time
72% matchMixed69% of 97 reviews2017
Dev: SimProse StudiosPub: Aldorlea Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The Cavern of Time is an RPG/Adventure game where you guide the journey of a young girl. Can you find the magical locket in this perilous realm and cure your beloved grandmother's illness? Visit the Cavern of Time and find out!
Why similar: RPG 47.1%, Casual 30.3%, Indie 22.6%
- #50 Don't Forget Our Esports Dream
70% matchVery Positive91% of 117 reviews2018
Dev: Team Eleven
Windows · Mac · Linux
Don’t Forget Our Esports Dream is a narrative game about the South Korean esports scene. Play as Bolt, a professional StarCraft: Brood War player at a flashpoint in his career. Play like a pro with guided StarCraft scenes, and see what it takes to live the dream.
Why similar: RPG 47.7%, Casual 28.4%, Indie 23.9%
- #51 Sumire
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 924 reviews2021
Dev: GameTomo TeamPub: GameTomo Co., Ltd.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found. Embark on a mysterious journey to help Sumire achieve her deepest wishes, before the day ends and the sky turns to twilight.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 51.6%, Casual 27.1%, Indie 21.4%
- #52 Little Adventurer III
73% matchMostly Negative22% of 58 reviews2018
Dev: hubiao
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 37%
This is a first-person casual game that focuses on going home after helping the little girl, and a few mini-games.
Why similar: Casual 58.3%, Indie 41.7%
- #53 Hopeguard
67% matchVery Positive80% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: Hopesquad StudioPub: UQAT - Création et nouveaux médias
Windows
Hopeguard is a third-person dark fantasy game about loss and acceptance. You have been chosen to eliminate the Dragon Queen, but the confrontation will not go as expected. Journey through caves, ruins, and forests to solve environmental puzzles and fulfill your quest -but with a new perspective.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 100%
- #54 枝江畔之梦
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,502 reviews2022
Dev: 枝江梦游社
Windows
“她们是真实的,我才是虚拟的。” 失去了偶像的枝江市,忙碌、喧嚣,却死气沉沉,我们应该如何适应所谓的“现实”?现在,请你深呼吸,与她们共同经历、共同成长,努力找寻深藏在生活中的小惊喜,相信某一时刻,这个童话会将名为A-SOUL的女团导向最浪漫的结局。
Why similar: Casual 77.1%, Indie 22.9%
- #55 Denpa Nightmares
65% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2025
Dev: 不重要Pub: 千鳥豚工作室
Windows
No matter how long you’re gone, there will always be a girl waiting for you in the same place. This is a story about forgetting, and about waiting. After countless restarts and countless memories lost… how long will you stay with her this time?
Why similar: RPG 80.3%, Indie 19.7%
- #56 FREERIDE
65% matchVery Positive88% of 226 reviews2025
Dev: Flightyfelon Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair. In this highly-branching narrative adventure you'll only see about 1/3 of the full story in each playthrough, but the end is whenever you want it to be.
Why similar: RPG 78.7%, Indie 21.3%
- #57 铁道少女:梦想轨迹 2.0 Railway To Dream
67% matchVery Positive95% of 186 reviews2021
Dev: 39SoftPub: moe north railway
Windows · Mac
梦想轨迹是集合轻百合与养成元素的文字冒险游戏,玩家将扮演力图成为第一名女性动车组司机的田诗虹,在一个月期间接受川崎镜与韩德亮二人的指导,并在最后接受梁凌薇的考核。以此与两位童年好友和解,将三人之间那早已扭曲的轨迹,重新引导回正确的轨道上。
Why similar: RPG 66.6%, Casual 33.4%
- #58 Heart Fragment
67% matchVery Positive92% of 325 reviews2021
Dev: Starfield Gaming
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Can you collect all the fragments to reach your happy ending? Or will your attempts only end in tragedy? Find out in this psychological otome game as you sort your way through the secrets & lies.
Why similar: RPG 60.9%, Indie 39.1%