60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Experimental, Adventure, Indie, Singleplayer.
Under the cloud, pressure is crushing – only machines survive in the open. LAMINA BRUISE is a narrative-driven first-person adventure. Solve thoughtful puzzles and overcome revealing obstacles in a tense, hostile environment.
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?
CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.
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 38.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Surreal 21.1%, Minimalist 9%, Adventure 2.6%
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 30.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Surreal 15.3%, Dark 9.8%, Exploration 5.6%
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 32% ★, Interactive Fiction 19%, Surreal 15%, Exploration 5.7%, Minimalist 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 32.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Surreal 15.4%, Dark 8.4%, Minimalist 7.7%
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 35.7% ★, Surreal 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Exploration 5.3%
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 54.9% ★, Surreal 20.1%, First-Person 7.8%, Minimalist 7.3%, Story Rich 4%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Experimental 33.1% ★, Surreal 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Dark 10.5%, Minimalist 8.2%
Lost Voice is a story-based first-person sci-fi adventure game with strong action elements, puzzles, and unique gameplay mechanics.
Why similar: Experimental 45.9% ★, Surreal 21.1%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Minimalist 8.1%, Atmospheric 4.5%
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 41% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Surreal 18%, Dark 10.7%, Story Rich 2.7%
A ritual for the darkest of times. A game about community and change in a fractured world.
Why similar: Experimental 47.6% ★, Surreal 20.9%, Dark 10.8%, First-Person 7.2%, 3D 4.9%
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 64.7% ★, Dark 14.1%, First-Person 5.2%, Atmospheric 5%, Exploration 4.7%
An interactive psychological horror drama.
Why similar: Experimental 37.7% ★, Surreal 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Dark 9.6%, First-Person 4.5%
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 52.5% ★, Surreal 21.4%, Minimalist 8.8%, Story Rich 4.4%, Indie 4.3%
A free short first-person horror game of dream puzzles - unsettling, surreal, with strange logic.
Why similar: Experimental 31.9% ★, Surreal 19.9%, Dark 11.6%, Minimalist 7.9%, First-Person 7.1%
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 60.7% ★, First-Person 10.4%, Exploration 9.2%, Indie 8.4%, Atmospheric 4.1%
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 73.7% ★, Indie 11.5%, First-Person 7.4%, Casual 6.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%
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 48.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Surreal 11%, Minimalist 10%, First-Person 5.9%
Explore this set of 4 distinct short experimental games and experience impossible worlds filled with audiovisual and narrative contradictions.
Why similar: Experimental 47.5% ★, Surreal 19%, Exploration 8.1%, First-Person 6.3%, 3D 4.8%
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 50.7% ★, Surreal 27.4%, Indie 9.8%, Casual 6.8%, Atmospheric 5.2%
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 53.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Exploration 6.5%, Minimalist 5.6%, Indie 5.5%
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 45.6% ★, Surreal 12.2%, Indie 9.6%, Exploration 8.7%, Sci-fi 8.4%
You woke up, and you have no idea where you are. What a coincidence, you don't remember anything at all; could you have been kidnapped? There is only one way to find out.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.3%, Surreal 21%, Sci-fi 17.3%, Exploration 10.7%, 3D 6.8%
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 31.1% ★, Surreal 21.4%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Dark 10.6%, Exploration 7.6%
The Space Between is a surreal short narrative experience in three acts about the walls we build for us.
Why similar: Experimental 45.6% ★, Surreal 22.6%, Dark 12.6%, First-Person 4.8%, Atmospheric 4.3%
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 42.2% ★, Surreal 31.1%, Dark 7.7%, Indie 6.6%, Atmospheric 5.1%
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 49.6% ★, Surreal 26.3%, Dark 16.4%, Indie 6.4%, Psychological Horror 1.3%
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 59.2% ★, Surreal 15.4%, Exploration 8.3%, 3D 4.6%, Atmospheric 3.8%
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 88.3% ★, Indie 11.7%
Load dice as bullets. Shoot d-heads. Survive the arcade machine that wants you dead.
Why similar: Experimental 52% ★, Surreal 23.7%, Dark 12.9%, Indie 4.9%, Psychological Horror 2.2%
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 39.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Surreal 16.4%, First-Person 6.5%, Exploration 6%
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 37.6% ★, Surreal 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Dark 12.1%, Atmospheric 4.1%
Henry is an elderly man with regrets. Over the course of his life, he has killed three times. He is about to kill again.
Why similar: Experimental 38.4% ★, Surreal 23.8%, Dark 9.2%, Exploration 5.5%, First-Person 5%
10mg is a collection of 10 minute long games. Always Down is about going away.
Why similar: Experimental 56.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 23%, Exploration 8.7%, Minimalist 6.4%, Adventure 3.4%
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% ★, Exploration 11.7%, Indie 9.2%, Adventure 4.1%
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 51.9% ★, Surreal 23.3%, Sci-fi 12%, 3D 4.1%, Atmospheric 4%
A surrealist experience in a strange museum
Why similar: Experimental 71.2% ★, First-Person 10.6%, Casual 7.4%, 3D 6.6%, Indie 3.4%
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 72.6% ★, Indie 10.2%, First-Person 6.8%, Atmospheric 5.4%, Adventure 4.6%
Your future is vaster than the cosmos.
Why similar: Experimental 66.3% ★, Surreal 28.6%, Indie 4.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
The trippy and wondrous exploration-walking simulator. Arty, surreal, different. Grant your brain some sweetmeat.
Why similar: Experimental 69.4% ★, Indie 17.2%, Exploration 12.5%, Puzzle 0.9%
Beaux-Arts is a surreal horror game about being held prisoner by the residents of a countryside estate. Trapped in an arbitrary and nightmarish system of justice, you must explore the grounds and try to convince the family and staff to let you out alive.
Why similar: Surreal 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Experimental 16.9% ★, Dark 12.1%, Exploration 6.5%
A collection of 5 experimental games from different indie devs that takes you on a journey through time!
Why similar: Experimental 62.3% ★, Indie 8.2%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Exploration 6.5%, Casual 5%
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 36.2% ★, Surreal 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Dark 12.9%, Exploration 5%
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 50.6% ★, Surreal 18.1%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Exploration 9.7%, 3D 5.3%
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 54.2% ★, Surreal 28.8%, Indie 9.1%, Adventure 4.1%, Atmospheric 2.9%
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 46.6% ★, Surreal 28.8%, Exploration 8.2%, First-Person 5.7%, Atmospheric 5.4%
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 43.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Sci-fi 10%, Exploration 7%, First-Person 5.8%
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 80.1% ★, Indie 19.9%
Find clues and solve puzzles to escape
Why similar: Experimental 63.9% ★, Sci-fi 12.6%, First-Person 9.8%, Casual 5.4%, Atmospheric 3.3%
This is the Last Time is a minimalist first-person narrative game with a dark and heavy atmosphere.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41%, Dark 15.8%, Exploration 12.7%, First-Person 10.7%, 3D 8%
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 27%, Experimental 24.6% ★, Sci-fi 16.3%, Exploration 10.2%, Minimalist 9.1%
The Ocean Will Have Us All is a first person exploration game.Experience a day in the subatomic life of Moira Leech. Get up, go to work, go home, go back to sleep. Or. Go off the the beaten track! Take charge! Stick your finger in an electrical socket!
Why similar: Experimental 40.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Dark 9.1%, Minimalist 8.8%, Exploration 6.7%
An FPS with ZERO graphics!? Yes, you heard right ! Run • Blast • Escape • Survive, through sound alone, as you challenge your makers and unravel the mysteries of your existence. You may be blind, but you're far from helpless !
Why similar: Experimental 57% ★, Sci-fi 15.9%, Dark 12.4%, Atmospheric 5.5%, Story Rich 5%
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 39.9% ★, Surreal 20.5%, Dark 13.6%, First-Person 6%, Exploration 4.5%
Escaping from the dream still continues on the sequel of Dream Stone.
Why similar: Experimental 51.4% ★, Surreal 9.9%, Dark 9.8%, Exploration 8.3%, First-Person 5.6%
Risu Ishikawa is about to split in two.
Why similar: Experimental 32.6% ★, Surreal 26.8%, Dark 16.1%, Exploration 7.1%, Atmospheric 5.6%
Rememoried is an independent video game, a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting, which becomes a mechanism for proceeding to the next layer of dreams. The Surrealist explorative first-person adventure game.
Why similar: Experimental 31.6% ★, Surreal 23.5%, Dark 9.3%, Minimalist 8%, Indie 7.5%
Collect remnants of things that came before you. Explore a dark and ominous world.
Why similar: Experimental 43.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Surreal 17.4%, Dark 7.6%, Atmospheric 4.3%
