60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Experimental, Abstract, Singleplayer, Indie.
Struggle. Fall. Triumph. Hold on. A small yet grand journey across life. Simple interactions connect seemingly unrelated moments, from the microscopic to the cosmic.
An abstract interactive experience about a Gap
Why similar: Experimental 36.2% ★, Abstract 25.8%, Philosophical 19.1%, Emotional 9.4%, Minimalist 8.8%
You are an insect collector. Wander through old summer memories looking for colors.
Why similar: Experimental 30.9% ★, Abstract 19.3%, Philosophical 16.7%, Nature 8.1%, Emotional 6.6%
The Memories That Shape Us is a narrative video game that lasts about two hours. Find the Memory Capsules to uncover the story of a person’s life from childhood to adulthood, all the joys, all the struggles, and all the lessons. How much can one take before they’ve had enough?
Why similar: Experimental 24.3% ★, Abstract 20%, Philosophical 14.2%, Emotional 13.8%, Psychological 12.3%
MaryPark St. is a short story telling indie game, set in a black and white dream-like world. Featuring two interpretations of the same story, The Dream & The Nightmare.
Why similar: Experimental 45% ★, Abstract 19.1%, Philosophical 16.1%, Minimalist 6.6%, Adventure 4.5%
Atuel is an award-winning surrealist documentary game in which you explore beautiful, dreamlike landscapes inspired by the topography and wildlife of the Atuel River Valley in Argentina.
Why similar: Experimental 25.6% ★, Philosophical 18.2%, Abstract 16%, Nature 10.4%, Emotional 10.2%
Gamitate is a like a gym for your mind and soul. "Work Out" your mind with carefully selected meditation techniques! Gamitate is designed to make you feel calmer, happier, and more peaceful. Enjoy the benefits of a wide variety of easy meditation techniques.
Why similar: Experimental 37.4% ★, Abstract 20.2%, Philosophical 8.8%, Emotional 8.3%, Exploration 8.2%
You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.
Why similar: Experimental 33.3% ★, Abstract 19.2%, Philosophical 15.5%, Psychological 12.6%, Emotional 9.7%
Look for your car in a series of mazes and parking lots while you talk to your therapist about feeling lost. An interactive short story about trying to make sense out of the unreal. Based on real dreams!
Why similar: Experimental 42% ★, Philosophical 23%, Emotional 12.3%, Exploration 10.9%, Atmospheric 5.6%
Traverse a harmonious hand painted forest in this first person hike. ☀️The trees guide you with gentle whispers, as you explore a philosophical story.
Why similar: Experimental 38.3% ★, Abstract 21%, Philosophical 13.8%, Emotional 10.1%, Nature 8.3%
Forever Someday is a short narrative experience about dealing with depression and the end of a relationship, with a surreal and dream-like aesthetic.
Why similar: Experimental 40.5% ★, Abstract 22.8%, Psychological 10.3%, Emotional 9.8%, Adventure 6%
Experience a 'painfully human', 'psychological' narrative through dreams and allegory. Live in a flat. Buy things. Use things. Tire yourself out. Sleep. Dream. Wake up. Repeat. And maybe, just maybe, find a Bear in a Pit. What could be scarier than the Bear? Find out.
Why similar: Experimental 31.7% ★, Abstract 21.8%, Philosophical 21.5%, Psychological 15.9%, Atmospheric 4.4%
Blast your way through millions of particles as you explore someone's dreams in this narrative driven adventure.
Why similar: Experimental 27.6% ★, Abstract 17%, Philosophical 14.8%, Psychological 11.6%, Emotional 9.9%
A short story about a parasitic sunflower and her loyal son. Eat everything you can. Enjoy the sunshine. Do whatever it takes to make her happy. This is a prequel to Siren's Call: Escape Velocity.
Why similar: Experimental 34.5% ★, Abstract 19.2%, Philosophical 15.5%, Psychological 12.3%, Emotional 9.6%
Explore an abstract ecosystem in What Surrounds Us, a cozy indie puzzling adventure. Encounter unique species and solve environmental challenges to protect their colourful habitat. Find your way through curious biomes and overcome the threat looming over this peaceful little world.
Why similar: Experimental 35.9% ★, Abstract 18.3%, Nature 14.1%, Adventure 11.1%, Exploration 7.2%
Destiny Island is a very short computer game. You play a man who visits his memories. You can walk and talk to mannequins about 7 sins. Associate essence with anything comes to your mind.
Why similar: Experimental 51% ★, Abstract 17.2%, Philosophical 14.9%, Minimalist 5.9%, Surreal 3.9%
Nebula Within is a contemplative yet challenging twin-stick shooter about exploring your emotions and finding self-acceptance. Plunge into a colorful consciousness and reveal a mysterious diary alone or with up to 8 of your friends.
Why similar: Experimental 32.1% ★, Philosophical 17.7%, Abstract 16.4%, Psychological 12.2%, Emotional 11.8%
Explore a familiar world that can never be fully understood.
Why similar: Experimental 32.3% ★, Abstract 17%, Emotional 13.6%, Psychological 12.2%, Exploration 9.8%
❗ EARLY ACCESS ❗ This game is an anthology of visual novels, which includes the “Deep Russian Depression” (pilot chapter) and custom stories from the game community. You can create your own stories as mods for the game and publish them in the Steam Workshop.
Why similar: Experimental 36.5% ★, Abstract 21.3%, Philosophical 14.5%, Psychological 13.8%, Emotional 8.1%
Change the dim world, fill it with light. Each inky struggle improves your sight. "Sometimes words alone can't paint the whole picture." A VR game about depression.
Why similar: Experimental 38.1% ★, Abstract 16.9%, Philosophical 13.1%, Psychological 9%, Emotional 8.7%
Dive into Yuha's nightmares. Bear witness to a glitch apocalypse. Explore the hidden layers of a 3D-dreamscape. Piece together her memories and fears. Experience a true haunting with vanishing staircases, lost voices and time that keeps running out.
Why similar: Experimental 32.5% ★, Abstract 19.3%, Psychological 14.2%, Emotional 10%, Exploration 8.3%
A collection of tiny experimental games (and "notgames") inspired by travel.
Why similar: Experimental 37% ★, Philosophical 19.4%, Abstract 17%, Minimalist 8.1%, Exploration 6.9%
Rediscover a familiar world by splashing it with color and find your way through the darkness in this first-person exploration game. Traverse 30+ surreal locations, solve intriguing puzzles, and face your demons. Uncover fragments of your story through a meditative journey between light and shadow.
Why similar: Experimental 26.7% ★, Abstract 19.4%, Psychological 12.6%, Emotional 10.4%, Exploration 8.8%
Difficulty is a short, experimental visual novel, about both the difficulty level of stories, and the difficulties of real life. The plot, themes, challenges, and morals all become greater and harder to understand and accept as the difficulty increases.
Why similar: Experimental 55.5% ★, Philosophical 27.2%, Abstract 16.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.
Why similar: Experimental 28.1% ★, Abstract 19.4%, Philosophical 16.3%, Exploration 10%, Emotional 9.8%
A short and deeply emotional game experience where life itself is presented through a unique perspective.
Why similar: Experimental 33.8% ★, Philosophical 18.5%, Abstract 18%, Psychological 12.6%, Emotional 9.4%
Watch your cursor dance a creature into existence, line by line. Something in this place has been waiting. It will teach you everything you need to know.
Why similar: Experimental 20.2% ★, Abstract 18.7%, Philosophical 18.3%, Emotional 11.4%, Exploration 9.5%
TMOY is a series of interactive art installations hidden inside a first person adventure game. Explore the “museum” and the surreal void space it resides in, make choices, discover new worlds, play (or suffer through) a variety of strange minigames - it’s up to you. It is your museum, after all.
Why similar: Abstract 23.7%, Experimental 20.8% ★, Philosophical 19.9%, Minimalist 6.9%, Exploration 6.8%
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: Experimental 37% ★, Emotional 17.2%, Psychological 17.1%, Exploration 10.1%, Atmospheric 7.6%
Immerse yourself into unstable reality. In order to get out you must exploit glitch in a world around you. You can be sure of one thing, any rules you known no longer exist!! Do you have a courage to dip in it?
Why similar: Experimental 41.4% ★, Abstract 18.4%, Psychological 14.8%, Exploration 6.3%, Adventure 6%
Three Interwoven tales ruminating on beginning and end and everything in-between.
Why similar: Experimental 64.3% ★, Philosophical 26.5%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
This VR Journey takes you to the 'behind the scenes' of the Universe. Beyond a door lies a barren landscape inhabited by strange rocky heads. Here, the maintenance and heavy lifting required keeps existence stable and temporal. You are a tourist. Don't do anything foolish.
Why similar: Experimental 34.8% ★, Philosophical 21.4%, Psychological 12.3%, Abstract 11%, Exploration 7.1%
Lost Voice is a story-based first-person sci-fi adventure game with strong action elements, puzzles, and unique gameplay mechanics.
Why similar: Experimental 46.2% ★, Philosophical 25.3%, Adventure 9.1%, Minimalist 7.1%, Atmospheric 6.7%
Uncover cheating optical illusions, with your brain and eyes deceiving you at every opportunity... Experience these popular eyetwisters interactively like you've never seen before! This minimalist, but surreal game will make you question all senses you have.
Why similar: Experimental 44.1% ★, Abstract 23.8%, Philosophical 12.3%, Minimalist 8.3%, Psychological 7.4%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Experimental 38.5% ★, Abstract 21.8%, Psychological 14.9%, Philosophical 11.5%, Emotional 7%
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
Why similar: Experimental 31.7% ★, Abstract 23.4%, Philosophical 16.3%, Exploration 7.8%, Minimalist 6.8%
You’re a grade-schooler at a religious institution where something feels off in this surreal, first-person adventure game. Do your genes make a difference in the outcome of your suffering? Will your faith be enough to shroud your fears? Perhaps you already know the answer.
Why similar: Philosophical 27%, Psychological 22.4%, Abstract 14.8%, Adventure 11.6%, Atmospheric 9.6%
Deidia is an Idle Game / Exploration / Incremental / Data-Corruption Glitch-Venture Hybrid game where you explore a lonely unstable world, use glitches, forgotten ruins. Its exploring an offline abandoned game / server with a ram corruptor played with platforming, very ambient, experimental.
Why similar: Experimental 69.2% ★, Adventure 16.2%, Exploration 14.5%
Play as you playing as you.
Why similar: Experimental 41.4% ★, Philosophical 21.2%, Abstract 19.6%, Minimalist 8.2%, Adventure 4.6%
PULMO is a casual puzzle game where you control a lone character in a world full of faceless crowds.
Why similar: Abstract 20.9%, Philosophical 20.1%, Psychological 14.1%, Emotional 10.4%, Nature 8.9%
After shouting "Let Me Play!" to the cast in a theatre, the fiction comes crashing down as everyone, including you, becomes aware they're only following a script. Will you let the play continue? Or will you write your own ending?
Why similar: Experimental 45.2% ★, Philosophical 15.1%, Adventure 13%, Psychological 11.8%, Minimalist 9.2%
Inside the art - Cosmic Voyage This VR takes you on a cosmic journey through the universe of OUBEYs paintings. Starting on Earth you are led into the far distant depths of space and back...
Why similar: Experimental 48.7% ★, Abstract 25.4%, Exploration 10.1%, Adventure 9.1%, Atmospheric 6%
I’m releasing this collection of games so that you may start talking to me again
Why similar: Experimental 29.7% ★, Abstract 22.7%, Philosophical 18%, Adventure 14.3%, Exploration 10.4%
Crawl through the darkness in this psychological horror visual novel with multiple endings, where you will traverse a surreal nightmare as you choose your own path and explore strange spaces in an attempt to wake up, if you can...
Why similar: Experimental 34.3% ★, Abstract 20.1%, Philosophical 13%, Psychological 11.2%, Exploration 6.4%
This game is about making this game.
Why similar: Experimental 30.8% ★, Abstract 18.7%, Philosophical 17.2%, Psychological 12.2%, Exploration 7.2%
An atmospheric, surreal story-driven adventure. Explore strange rooms, houses, and streets, meet unusual characters, and solve puzzles. Observe, listen, and piece together the story from fragments, because the world of GOLUBI won’t explain anything
Why similar: Experimental 35.1% ★, Abstract 16.7%, Psychological 15%, Emotional 10.7%, Exploration 7.2%
This game is nothing more than a black image covering the entire screen area, without the presence of any incentives.
Why similar: Experimental 34.9% ★, Philosophical 20.5%, Abstract 20.4%, Psychological 12.2%, Minimalist 7.4%
Hadr is a short atmospheric game where you control a piece of flying fabric. Every single thing you can cover with your cloth, will disappear. Items, puzzles and story, they all have their place in Hadr. Are real things disappearing or just memories?
Why similar: Experimental 38% ★, Abstract 19.1%, Philosophical 16.2%, Emotional 9.1%, Minimalist 7.9%
Your future is vaster than the cosmos.
Why similar: Experimental 62.4% ★, Philosophical 31.3%, Surreal 5.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Explore this set of 4 distinct short experimental games and experience impossible worlds filled with audiovisual and narrative contradictions.
Why similar: Experimental 48.7% ★, Abstract 20.6%, Exploration 11.1%, Adventure 8.8%, Atmospheric 5.6%
Light Of Gallery is brand New Maze Running Game! Escape From the Secret Art Hall!
Why similar: Experimental 48.8% ★, Abstract 17.6%, Psychological 11.2%, Exploration 10.2%, Adventure 10%
FOR GOD'S SAKE, HELP HIM! is a tiny, surreal first-person art "game" about what it's like. your goal is singular and simple: try to help him, however you can... if you can. that's a tall order considering you're both in a blank void and he's being crushed over and over.
Why similar: Abstract 28%, Philosophical 22%, Psychological 13.9%, Minimalist 13.3%, Atmospheric 8.2%
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
Why similar: Experimental 26.8% ★, Abstract 20.7%, Philosophical 12.8%, Psychological 11.6%, Emotional 9.8%
10mg is a collection of 10 minute long games. Always Down is about going away.
Why similar: Experimental 53.9% ★, Abstract 15.2%, Adventure 13.9%, Exploration 11.2%, Minimalist 5.4%
THIS IS (NOT) A CHESS GAME - A single-player puzzle game that transforms traditional chess into a minimal, immersive journey. Every move is a step deeper into the world Beyond the Board, where shifting tiles and puzzles reveal the hidden fractures within the game’s very foundations.
Why similar: Abstract 33.2%, Experimental 18% ★, Philosophical 12.2%, Exploration 10.9%, Minimalist 8.3%
P.I.G.E.O.N. is a short surrealist visual novel RPG in which you become a pigeon, armed with a camera, sent to spy. You will have to make choices, but you won't always be able to make a choice.
Why similar: Experimental 34.2% ★, Abstract 19.8%, Philosophical 18.2%, Psychological 12.7%, Adventure 6%
A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.
Why similar: Experimental 46.5% ★, Abstract 25.8%, Philosophical 12.1%, Emotional 10.2%, Atmospheric 4.8%
Forgetter is a destructive journey of pain, memory and artistry. In the future, creative minds can be inherited by clients’ newborns. You're hired to destroy unhealthy memories in the minds of deceased artists. Remember to smash everything. Don't let the artists’ remaining consciousness stop you.
Why similar: Experimental 44.6% ★, Philosophical 19.6%, Psychological 13.2%, Exploration 10.4%, Adventure 5.8%
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
Why similar: Experimental 39.5% ★, Philosophical 17.4%, Psychological 13.7%, Emotional 11.6%, Minimalist 8.3%
A game about boredom and self-pity. It's about myself mostly. You walk around and press the 'interact' button. Sorry for making this.
Why similar: Experimental 49% ★, Abstract 25.8%, Emotional 19.7%, Surreal 5.4%
