60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Experimental, Adventure, Surreal, Singleplayer.
LAMINA BRUISE is a narrative-driven, first-person adventure set in a surreal sci-fi world. A tense yet meditative experience, paced by thoughtful puzzles.
Let Me Play!
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?
The Appraiser
The Appraiser is a short, first person narrative game. As an art appraiser you will sell the art collection of a dying man. Each painting is by 4 famed artist. They have a story to tell you, but only if you choose to listen.
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 39.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Surreal 20.8%, Minimalist 8.8%, Adventure 2.7%
The Appraiser is a short, first person narrative game. As an art appraiser you will sell the art collection of a dying man. Each painting is by 4 famed artist. They have a story to tell you, but only if you choose to listen.
Why similar: Experimental 33% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Surreal 14.9%, Exploration 5.7%, Minimalist 5.6%
Take your place at the terminal. Follow the procedures, process the records, and read messages never meant for you. NOEMA is a quiet, unsettling narrative experience about work, obedience, human connection, and what routine teaches us not to see.
Why similar: Experimental 47.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Surreal 11.5%, Minimalist 4.9%, Dark 4.7%
A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.
Why similar: Experimental 31.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Surreal 15.2%, Dark 9.6%, Exploration 5.6%
Emporium is a short interactive vignette. Exploring notions of escapism, loss and a fragmented sense of self in the wake of a personal tragedy.
Why similar: Experimental 33.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Surreal 15.2%, Dark 8.2%, Minimalist 7.6%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Experimental 34.2% ★, Surreal 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Dark 10.3%, Minimalist 8.1%
Mother Seed is a fixed-camera point and click psychological horror game about identity collapse, loss of bodily autonomy, and horrified fascination. A woman inhabits a universe where nothing makes sense and something beyond her understanding keeps driving her forward.
Why similar: Experimental 55.1% ★, Surreal 23.7%, Dark 9.6%, Atmospheric 3.8%, Psychological Horror 2.6%
Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick by transporting you into the life of a writer searching for his own identity. Explore, solve the riddles and conduct your investigation. Will you find what’s behind the simulacra ?
Why similar: Experimental 36.7% ★, Surreal 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Exploration 5.2%
Lost Voice is a story-based first-person sci-fi adventure game with strong action elements, puzzles, and unique gameplay mechanics.
Why similar: Experimental 46.9% ★, Surreal 20.7%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Minimalist 7.9%, Atmospheric 4.3%
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 56% ★, Surreal 19.7%, First-Person 7.6%, Minimalist 7.1%, Story Rich 3.9%
Part travel journal, part visual novel with a hint of psychological horror, Melbourne: Route 96 is an experimental game about catching a tram in the wrong direction - and a polaroid camera.
Why similar: Experimental 42.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Surreal 17.7%, Dark 10.4%, Story Rich 2.7%
Escape rooms are fun! But Escape Knox Manor asks the question what if you were actually kidnapped? And what if you had to escape a mansion? Find out now!
Why similar: Experimental 65.9% ★, Dark 13.7%, First-Person 5.1%, Atmospheric 4.8%, Exploration 4.6%
A ritual for the darkest of times. A game about community and change in a fractured world.
Why similar: Experimental 48.8% ★, Surreal 20.6%, Dark 10.5%, First-Person 7%, 3D 4.7%
An interactive psychological horror drama.
Why similar: Experimental 38.8% ★, Surreal 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Dark 9.4%, First-Person 4.4%
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 53.6% ★, Surreal 21%, Minimalist 8.6%, Story Rich 4.3%, Indie 4.1%
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Why similar: Experimental 42.3% ★, Surreal 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Exploration 6.4%, Atmospheric 3.7%
Explore this set of 4 distinct short experimental games and experience impossible worlds filled with audiovisual and narrative contradictions.
Why similar: Experimental 48.6% ★, Surreal 18.6%, Exploration 7.9%, First-Person 6.2%, 3D 4.6%
A miniature frozen between the atmosphere of a small room and Castaneda with Lovecraft. The story of radical spiritual practices in the search for truth among panels and stacks.
Why similar: Experimental 49.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 21%, Surreal 10.8%, Minimalist 9.8%, First-Person 5.7%
Reflections is a real-world adventure game where every action you take has meaningful consequences that radically shape the experience. Each action you take is punctuated by flushing the black and white environment with color, illustrating your progress and providing clues to what your future might hold.
Why similar: Experimental 61.7% ★, First-Person 10%, Exploration 9%, Indie 8%, Atmospheric 3.9%
A free first-person horror game about dream puzzles - unsettling, surreal and built on strange logic.
Why similar: Experimental 33% ★, Surreal 19.7%, Dark 11.4%, Minimalist 7.8%, First-Person 7%
The familiar becomes magical in this critically acclaimed interactive artscape. Explore ten scenes inspired by the everyday and let your expectations of reality be transformed. Carl Burton's other work has been featured in the New York Times, Serial, Colossal, and Medium.
Why similar: Experimental 51.9% ★, Surreal 27%, Indie 9.4%, Casual 6.7%, Atmospheric 5.1%
One wish to shape a game forever. Wait 2 hours in darkness, make your request, and watch it become real for those who comes after.
Why similar: Experimental 54.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Exploration 6.4%, Minimalist 5.5%, Indie 5.3%
You wash ashore as a castaway to come upon the painted forest, a fossil forest in a distant world, and the lost temples of the people that once worshiped it.
Why similar: Experimental 46.7% ★, Surreal 12%, Indie 9.3%, Exploration 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.3%
Julian Luxemburg has prepared a dinner for two at his place – but things go awry when the date does not show up and he is left waiting at his dinner table, the clock’s ticking growing unbearably loud. „Dinner Date” is the character portrait of Julian: by becoming his subconsciousness you gain a clear vantage point on the worries which...
Why similar: Experimental 74.7% ★, Indie 11%, First-Person 7.2%, Casual 6.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%
You're playing a platformer on an old CRT TV. At first, it's just a game. Then what happens on-screen no longer stays on-screen. You can't get up. You can't leave the room. All you can do is keep playing.
Why similar: Experimental 40.6% ★, Surreal 18.9%, Dark 11%, First-Person 7.5%, Exploration 6.3%
Face the terrifying darkness with your fragile light and witness mysteries that refuse to be understood. What will you believe when reality fails? Can your senses still be trusted?
Why similar: Experimental 67.4% ★, Dark 17.4%, Minimalist 8.2%, Psychological Horror 3.1%, Indie 2.7%
Before the Backrooms ... before analog horror ... there were the tapes
Why similar: Experimental 43.7% ★, Surreal 25.7%, Dark 12.5%, First-Person 5.1%, Atmospheric 4.4%
An atmospheric casual puzzle game where players navigate a strange cryptic world that blurs the line between dream and reality. Using inspection and memory, uncover hidden anomalies between mirrored worlds.
Why similar: Experimental 32% ★, Surreal 21.2%, Sci-fi 11%, Dark 10.4%, Exploration 7.5%
The Triennale Game Collection is a free virtual exhibition of video games created for the 21st International Exhibition of Triennale Milano by five of the world’s most renowned independent game designers, showcasing these artists’ experimental approach to interactivity.
Why similar: Experimental 89% ★, Indie 11%
Age of spiritual inequality concentrated in one yard. Because today the environment around us is diversified with guests and mirror reflections, a walk can be helpful. 9490.
Why similar: Experimental 60.2% ★, Surreal 15%, Exploration 8.1%, 3D 4.5%, Adventure 3.7%
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 75.8% ★, Exploration 11.3%, Indie 8.7%, Adventure 4.2%
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
Why similar: Experimental 43.1% ★, Surreal 30.7%, Dark 7.5%, Indie 6.4%, Atmospheric 4.9%
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 50.8% ★, Surreal 25.9%, Dark 16%, Indie 6.1%, Psychological Horror 1.2%
LIMITS is an experience of observation and obedience, concealed beneath the logic of a planetary restoration program. Execute the protocols. Analyze the zones. Cleanse the anomalies. C.A.L.L guides you. It watches over you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Experimental 25.3% ★, Sci-fi 16.2%, Exploration 10%, Minimalist 9%
Whac-a-Morphic blends fast-paced mole-whacking, clever puzzles, and rogue-lite elements into a tense, chaotic ride. Strike fast, solve the clues, and piece together the dark story buried beneath the surface
Why similar: Experimental 48.4% ★, Surreal 15.6%, Dark 12.5%, Story Rich 6.1%, Casual 5%
May, Be Dead is a first-person surrealist adventure game about walking through endless hexagonal rooms of memory and repeatedly killing May, a mysterious figure you shared an intimate yet ambiguous relationship with.
Why similar: Experimental 45.1% ★, Surreal 25.2%, First-Person 6.7%, Exploration 4.7%, 3D 3.7%
The Space Between is a surreal short narrative experience in three acts about the walls we build for us.
Why similar: Experimental 46.7% ★, Surreal 22.2%, Dark 12.3%, First-Person 4.7%, Atmospheric 4.1%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Experimental 38.7% ★, Surreal 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Dark 11.9%, Atmospheric 4%
In 2020, The origin of time, life, and civilization lurks inside a deep cosmic shaft known as the "Space Hole." Various beings explore the holes, and inside find commonalities in the systems and games. You gotta go in the Space Hole!
Why similar: Experimental 52.9% ★, Surreal 22.8%, Sci-fi 11.9%, 3D 4%, Atmospheric 3.9%
A surrealist experience in a strange museum
Why similar: Experimental 72.2% ★, First-Person 10.3%, Casual 7.1%, 3D 6.4%, Indie 3.2%
The trippy and wondrous exploration-walking simulator. Arty, surreal, different. Grant your brain some sweetmeat.
Why similar: Experimental 70.5% ★, Indie 16.4%, Exploration 12.2%, Puzzle 0.9%
Your future is vaster than the cosmos.
Why similar: Experimental 67.3% ★, Surreal 27.9%, Indie 4.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
10mg is a collection of 10 minute long games. Always Down is about going away.
Why similar: Experimental 57.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Exploration 8.5%, Minimalist 6.2%, Adventure 3.5%
Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.
Why similar: Experimental 73.5% ★, Indie 9.8%, First-Person 6.6%, Atmospheric 5.2%, Adventure 4.6%
A collection of 5 experimental games from different indie devs that takes you on a journey through time!
Why similar: Experimental 63.3% ★, Indie 7.9%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Exploration 6.4%, Casual 4.8%
Henry is an elderly man with regrets. Over the course of his life, he has killed three times. He is about to kill again. Survive a home invasion as you recount his life through a series of dreamy vignettes featuring a thief, a friend, a lover, and mysterious bartender.
Why similar: Experimental 39.5% ★, Surreal 23.5%, Dark 9%, Exploration 5.4%, First-Person 4.9%
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 37.3% ★, Surreal 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Dark 12.6%, Exploration 4.9%
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
Why similar: Experimental 40.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Surreal 16.2%, First-Person 6.4%, Exploration 5.9%
Aquarelle is a surreal adventure with parkour elements, where you have to find a way out of the virtual space into which its creator D-504 fell.
Why similar: Experimental 47.6% ★, Surreal 28.3%, Exploration 8.1%, First-Person 5.5%, Atmospheric 5.2%
Come on animatronic, save the tulpa dubai! A xd1 roguelike game where you have to save the tulpa dubai. Big adventures & stories! Chapter 1 & 2, for free.
Why similar: Experimental 53.9% ★, Surreal 28.6%, Exploration 7.7%, Story Rich 4.1%, Indie 2.7%
Transcender is a brief interactive experience that takes place in a surreal sci-fi setting. Figuring out how to play and what to do is the main attraction of the experience. It will hopefully leave you thinking "Hmm, that was interesting"
Why similar: Experimental 51.7% ★, Surreal 17.8%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Exploration 9.5%, 3D 5.1%
INTRAQUARTZ is a multidimensional experimental maze puzzler where you control a microscopic mining rover inside extraterrestrial crystals.
Why similar: Experimental 47.9% ★, Surreal 16.1%, Minimalist 11.1%, First-Person 6.6%, Exploration 6.5%
The Walking Fish returns, this time in space, in an all-new fish comedy horror experience. Stuck on a space station, you have to solve the mystery of the Walking Fish, and escape its terror.
Why similar: Experimental 55.3% ★, Surreal 28.2%, Indie 8.8%, Adventure 4.2%, Atmospheric 2.8%
Memoir En Code: Reissue is an autobiographical game album. Designed to be experienced similarly to a music album, this short experimental game explores different bits of the author's life as a series of interactive tracks.
Why similar: Experimental 81.1% ★, Indie 18.9%
Find clues and solve puzzles to escape
Why similar: Experimental 64.9% ★, Sci-fi 12.4%, First-Person 9.5%, Casual 5.3%, Atmospheric 3.2%
In this twisted meta-game, you follow four friends on their cursed journey of love and betrayal, told through a long-forgotten Storyteller. Solve puzzles, make meaningful decisions, and unravel the mystery behind the Storyteller with the help of a reality-breaking RETURN-mechanic.
Why similar: Experimental 41% ★, Surreal 20.2%, Dark 13.2%, First-Person 5.8%, Exploration 4.5%
The WSS space station was once one of humanity's best-known academy for idols and super stars . But nowadays it is just a place where myths and spooky stories are made. Can you survive its hundreds of rooms and and uncover the mysteries of the WSS?
Why similar: Experimental 44.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Exploration 6.9%, First-Person 5.7%
