- #1 Irrational Exuberance: Prologue
97% matchVery Positive86% of 354 reviews2016
Dev: Buffalo Vision
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Awaken on an asteroid in deep space, underneath comets and giant stars. Designed for HTC Vive, Prologue introduces the critically-acclaimed world of Irrational Exuberance—a fever dream of interstellar interactions. Take the first step on a journey of risk, wonder and discovery.
Why similar: VR 46.7%, Adventure 31%, Indie 22.3%
- #2 Echo Grotto
96% matchVery Positive88% of 67 reviews2017
Dev: Gaugepunk Games
Windows
Echo Grotto is a virtual reality experience that lets you explore unique and intricate cave systems using a range of caving gear and tools!
Why similar: VR 55.5%, Adventure 25.4%, Indie 19.1%
- #3 Seeking Dawn
96% matchMixed68% of 809 reviews2018
Dev: Multiverse
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Welcome to Seeking Dawn, a multiplayer survival VR adventure that takes you far beyond the solar system. Step into the shoes of a soldier discovering a hostile planet, where predators roam free and enemies are ruthless.
Why similar: VR 56.3%, Adventure 25.9%, Indie 17.8%
- #4 Wake Up
95% matchVery Positive81% of 98 reviews2016
Dev: Black Cell OG
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Experience a shattered and surreal dream filled with fascinating riddles, where your only guide is an elusive butterfly. Can you make the journey and wake up?
Why similar: VR 53%, Adventure 24.9%, Indie 22.1%
- #5 FORM
94% matchVery Positive91% of 979 reviews2017
Dev: Charm Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Enter a surreal adventure where puzzles are built from dreams and memories. Solve the mystery behind an ancient artifact. Advance through a world that transforms around you. Transcend this existence.
Why similar: VR 43%, Adventure 33.4%, Indie 23.6%
- #6 Dream
94% 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: VR 45%, Adventure 30.7%, Indie 24.3%
- #7 Realities
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 266 reviews2016
Dev: realities.io
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Explore what was out of reach before - travel to mesmerizing real world places and discover their stories!
Why similar: VR 74.8%, Adventure 25.2%
- #8 ALICE VR
92% matchMostly Negative37% of 354 reviews2016
Dev: Carbon StudioPub: Klabater
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Alice VR is a single player story-driven exploration game with puzzles designed to be a unique VR experience. Set on a mysterious planet and inspired by Alice in Wonderland, it's a thrilling, immersive adventure with beautiful graphics and an atmospheric electronic soundtrack.
Why similar: VR 50.4%, Adventure 29.8%, Indie 19.8%
- #9 Journey to Alien Worlds
89% matchVery Positive94% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: IdeographerPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
You can experience how it feels to stand on the surface of planets, satellites or comets, view the amazing scenery there, and get a better understanding of the differences between these heavenly bodies and the Earth.
Why similar: VR 55.5%, Adventure 25.4%, Indie 19.1%
- #10 'n Verlore Verstand
91% matchMixed50% of 182 reviews2016
Dev: Skobbejak GamesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Be prepared to be transported to a reality of dreams and nightmares. What will you discover about yourself in this journey through the subconscious?
Why similar: VR 43.8%, Adventure 36.4%, Indie 19.7%
- #11 Lucid Cycle
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 74 reviews2021
Dev: Tonguç Bodur
Windows
Lucid Cycle offers a set of short but unique experiences.
Why similar: Adventure 72.6%, Indie 27.4%
- #12 Annie Amber
91% matchMixed62% of 100 reviews2016
Dev: Pantumaca BarcelonaPub: Talking About Media
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
[VR Only] Annie Amber is a VR Puzzle Game that leads you on an intense and dreamy journey through the life of a person condensed in a surreal and poetic experience. Annie Amber makes you explore this strange and beautiful scenery that is life itself through her memories.
Why similar: VR 51.7%, Adventure 27.6%, Indie 20.7%
- #13 DreamFly
89% matchMixed68% of 87 reviews2020
Dev: Dmytro MakarenkoPub: No publisher
Windows
DreamFly: The game that simulates flights in your dreams! It is a sandbox game, there are no goals. But before you start your adventure, you will need to, well, learn how to fly.
Why similar: VR 62.5%, Adventure 19.7%, Indie 17.9%
- #14 Windlands
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 862 reviews2016
Dev: Psytec Games Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 39%
A first person grappling hook exploration game.Soar through the ruins of a fallen world and discover the secrets of the ancients. Designed with full Virtual Reality support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, also works great in Non VR.
Why similar: VR 64.1%, Adventure 21.6%, Indie 14.3%
- #15 Kayak VR: Mirage
86% matchVery Positive82% of 1,024 reviews2022
Dev: Better Than Life
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.1 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Kayak VR: Mirage is a jaw-dropping and exhilarating journey through beautiful locations, made for Virtual Reality. Maneuver our fully physically accurate kayak around checkpoints and crown yourself the fastest, or take it easy and use the free roam mode and enjoy the scenery.
Why similar: VR 48.2%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 44% ★, Adventure 4.5%, Indie 3.4%
- #16 Solar System VR
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 321 reviews2020
Dev: Split Light Studio
Windows
An educational virtual reality journey through space. Be the first space tourist in history and explore planets and moons in our Solar System like never before. You can experience a journey to the Earth's moon, explore Mars, and even see the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.
Why similar: VR 65.3%, Adventure 27.5%, Indie 7.2%
- #17 The Grand Canyon VR Experience
86% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2017
Dev: Immersive Entertainment, Inc.Pub: Immersive Entertainment, Inc
Windows
Explore one of nature's greatest wonders from the comfort of your home with the Grand Canyon VR Experience for HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift! Transport yourself on an epic journey into the heart of nature through the magic of Virtual Reality completely immersed in a fully dynamic and interactive beauty never before seen in VR.
Why similar: VR 62.3%, Adventure 21.1%, Indie 16.6%
- #18 DeepStates [VR]
84% matchVery Positive89% of 92 reviews2021
Dev: Marc ZimmermannPub: EpicScapes
Windows
DeepStates [VR] - Experiences designed to calm your mind and drift away. Wind down in compelling natural sceneries with dense atmospheres. Please note: Development for DeepStates is discontinued.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #19 Unknown Fate
84% matchMixed68% of 69 reviews2018
Dev: Marslit GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Unknown Fate is an enigmatic story-driven action adventure set in a surreal world full of mind-twisting puzzles and bizarre creatures
Why similar: VR 43.5%, Adventure 32.3%, Indie 24.2%
- #20 Cranium Conundrum
85% matchMixed42% of 86 reviews2016
Dev: Falling Star GamesPub: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cranium Conundrum is a physics-based puzzle platformer taking place in the dream worlds that you create!
Why similar: Adventure 57.2%, Indie 42.8%
- #21 L.S.D.: Prologue to Lasting Spiritual Derangement
81% matchVery Positive80% of 269 reviews2021
Dev: Fabiulous Games
Windows · Mac
L.S.D. is a first person experience set during a hallucinogen trip.In the prologue of this dream-like, surreal experience, you will explore mysterious open worlds, find weapons and fight against dangerous enemies.Will you be able to break the loop and get back to reality?
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #22 DreamLand
82% matchMixed59% of 69 reviews2016
Dev: SandVUEPub: SANPACE
Windows
Summary: “DreamLand” is an immersive VR game, made by AAA team base on htcVIVE with Unreal Engine. With the VR device, the player could pass through the Portal of Astral Spirit, and explore the mystical dreamland by time travel.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #23 Ayahuasca
80% matchVery Positive81% of 398 reviews2020
Dev: Small Studio by Mac GuffPub: Astrea
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 26%
In the jungle at night, a journey awaits for you... are you ready to embrace the experience? Ayahuasca, the vine of the soul, and how to find your inner space.
Why similar: VR 84.3%, Indie 15.7%
- #24 Holoception
81% matchMixed61% of 54 reviews2019
Dev: Holonautic
Windows
HOLOCEPTION is a new type of hybrid VR game allowing you to incarnate a character in 3rd and 1st person view. Explore a cartoonish Universe where everything is fully physics-based and where you have a lot of control and freedom to move and fight!
Why similar: VR 42%, Indie 29.6%, Adventure 28.4%
- #25 LSD Dream Emulator: Vaporwave (Wanderlust)
82% 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: Adventure 58.7%, Indie 41.3%
- #26 VR Jetpack Game
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: pftqPub: Autodidactic Studios LLC
Windows
Physics-based VR with full freedom of flight. VR that feels and controls like a real jetpack. A real-time multiplayer VR arena.
Why similar: VR 65.5%, Adventure 19.9%, Indie 14.6%
- #27 Lucid Blocks
70% matchVery Positive94% of 2,772 reviews2026
Dev: Lucy B. Locks
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #28 War Of Being
75% matchVery Positive93% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: DMTesseracT Ltd
Windows
War of Being is a single-player VR sci-fi adventure with standard mode playability, based on the music and concept for TesseracT's 2023 full length album. Explore 'The Strangeland' filled with surreal landscapes and characters. Solve puzzles and find hidden objects that unlock TesseracT's new music.
Why similar: VR 71.7%, Adventure 28.3%
- #29 InMind VR
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 432 reviews2015
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 23%
InMind is a short scientific adventure with arcade elements designed for the Oculus VR. Submerge into the microworld and experience the miracles of the human mind.
Why similar: VR 91%, Indie 9%
- #30 Temple of the Apsara
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 51 reviews2016
Dev: Attraction Studios
Windows
Temple of the Apsara is a VR exploration adventure puzzle experience unlike any other for the HTC VIVE.From the breathtaking mountainside to the depths of the ancient ruins, Temple of the Apsara is a journey unlike any other you’ve ever been on.
Why similar: Adventure 38.9%, VR 32.8%, Indie 28.3%
- #31 PowerWash Adventure VR
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 93 reviews2023
Dev: Grass Digital Technology
Windows
In PowerWash Adventure, you are a magical janitor on a whimsical rinsing journey across different themes. Upgrade your water gun to flash away dirts and restores items to their original states. Enjoy varied scenarios in dream mode, clean graffiti or design your own unique stage to share with others.
Why similar: Asynchronous Multiplayer 73.9% ★, VR 20.4%, Adventure 5.7%
- #32 Emergence
76% matchVery Positive84% of 98 reviews2020
Dev: Universal Everything
Windows
An awe-inspiring open-world VR art experience exploring human behaviour, the individual and the collective. Immerse yourself among thousands of strangers. Watch from above as your movements influence the crowd in changing environments that are both wondrous and intimidating.
Why similar: VR 45.4%, Adventure 39.5%, Indie 15.1%
- #33 Dreamcore
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,505 reviews2025
Dev: MontraluzPub: Tlön Industries
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Adventure 58.5%, Indie 41.5%
- #34 Run Of Mydan
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 93 reviews2017
Dev: Virtew
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Run Of Mydan is a flying VR Shooter set in a breathtakingly beautiful world. It features a Singleplayer/Co-op campaign, and a Multiplayer Arena with up to 10 players.
Why similar: VR 66.1%, Adventure 26.1%, Indie 7.7%
- #35 DMT: Dream Dealer Trip
77% 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: Adventure 56%, Indie 44%
- #36 Windlands 2
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 427 reviews2018
Dev: Psytec Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Windlands 2 is a built-for-VR fantasy action adventure game, use grappling hooks and a bow to explore the vast mysterious world to take down gigantic titans alone or with friends.
Why similar: VR 43.4%, Adventure 33.1%, Indie 23.5%
- #37 TRIP Steam Edition
77% matchMixed46% of 284 reviews2015
Dev: TRIPPub: Self-Published
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 43.0 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Explore an avant-garde cubist dream, stimulate your visual senses and immerse yourself in a surreal TRIP. A visually tantalizing open world artware that culminates the player to relax and enjoy a safe enviroment for them to explore at their own pace. There are no objectives, no rules, just art.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #38 Titans of Space PLUS
72% matchVery Positive94% of 192 reviews2019
Dev: DrashVR LLC
Windows
Just how big is big? Journey through this holographic Solar System, and then squint your eyes in the intense light of a few of the largest known stars. Enjoy various accidentally-educational activities along the way. Great care has been taken to ensure a comfortable VR experience. VR optional.
Why similar: VR 52.7%, Adventure 26.7%, Indie 20.7%
- #39 NIDANA
67% 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: Adventure 68.6%, Indie 31.4%
- #40 Obduction
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,942 reviews2016
Dev: Cyan, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
Why similar: VR 43.4%, Adventure 39.9%, Indie 16.8%
- #41 Visionarium 2 - The Descent
71% matchVery Positive89% of 54 reviews2022
Dev: Sander Bos
Windows
Visionarium 2 is a psychedelic audio-visualizer. Enter this artistic VR experience that takes you on an immersive journey through the underworld. Come out on the other side transformed, in awe.
Why similar: VR 83.4%, Indie 16.6%
- #42 Endless Night - Alpha
73% matchVery Positive89% of 61 reviews2016
Dev: Yerawizard LLC
Windows
Endless Night is a room-scale VR experience that will get your heart pumping and your adrenaline roaring.
Why similar: VR 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #43 Invisible Mind
73% matchMixed78% of 456 reviews2016
Dev: VGstudio
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Go on a trip around the worlds created by your own mind and learn yourself.
Why similar: Indie 58.6%, Adventure 41.4%
- #44 cyubeVR
71% matchVery Positive90% of 1,125 reviews2018
Dev: Stonebrick Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR. A beautiful infinite procedural world. Explore, gather resources, craft with your hands in 3D, and build anything you can imagine. Featuring great VR controls, near-infinite view distance, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more!
Why similar: VR 84.1%, Adventure 15.9%
- #45 GLITCH DADDY
68% matchVery Positive96% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: Sad Mask Party
Windows
You have a strange dream where you meet a creature named Glitch Daddy, telling you that the world is ending very soon. Then, you wake up and go to unravel the truth through a wild, abstract psychedelic journey.
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #46 Hypnagogia 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 716 reviews2021
Dev: sodaraptorPub: Raptorsoft Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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: Adventure 100%
- #47 SenS
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2022
Dev: Limasse Five
Windows
In the Beginning was the Nothingness... Enter the Unknown, explore the Infinite, find your own SenS.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #48 Firebird - La Peri
71% matchVery Positive80% of 213 reviews2016
Dev: InnerspaceVR
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Enter a realm of enchantment with "FIREBIRD - La Péri", and play the role of Iskender, a prince seeking the "flower of immortality". You will appear on the stage, visit the ethereal world of La Péri, and witness a magical and poetic encounter as one of the characters...
Why similar: VR 48.9%, Adventure 29.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #49 VR Escape The Space Station
73% matchMixed60% of 60 reviews2016
Dev: weyha.com
Windows
You are trapped in the space station all by yourself. Need to find a way to get the hell out of there. Experience with HTC Vive, consists of 4 rooms full of puzzles. Every scene are elaborately designed including spaceship with zero gravity, outer space landscape corridor and all.
Why similar: VR 49.5%, Adventure 28.9%, Indie 21.6%
- #50 Visionarium
70% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2019
Dev: Sander Bos
Windows
Visionarium is a visionary music driven VR journey. In this experience a visionary trance state is simulated.
Why similar: VR 66.4%, Indie 33.6%
- #51 The Under Presents
68% matchVery Positive89% of 101 reviews2020
Dev: Tender Claws
Windows
From the creators of “Virtual Virtual Reality” - Welcome to the Under! A time and mind bending, multiplayer, theatrical adventure featuring a cast of colorful live and pre-recorded characters, time wizardry, magic to perform and stories to uncover.
Why similar: Adventure 41%, Indie 30.3%, VR 28.8%
- #52 StrangeDream
62% 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: Adventure 52%, Indie 48%
- #53 Space Accident VR
62% matchVery Positive83% of 236 reviews2025
Dev: VR-WRGPub: Whale Rock Games
Windows
Step into the future with our groundbreaking VR game set in the year 2119, where humanity embarks on a historic journey into space. Join the "CCM-1" (Callisto Colonization Mission) expedition, aimed at the enigmatic moon of Jupiter - Callisto.
Why similar: VR 66.9%, Adventure 33.1%
- #54 Found
69% matchVery Positive88% of 147 reviews2016
Dev: Priyam ParikhPub: FoundVR
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 35%
“A dimly lit train cabin … swaying grassy plains … flickering fireflies … a mighty dragon.” Found is an interactive short film experience. Its story speaks to the connection and lack there of between nature, technology and fellow travelers as you make your way through a fantastical yet familiar world.
Why similar: VR 60.9%, Adventure 25.7%, Indie 13.4%
- #55 Heaven Island - VR MMO
68% matchMixed63% of 2,286 reviews2015
Dev: Fabio FerraraPub: Chubby Pixel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
More a Journey in your Inner Self than a game, "Heaven Island" is an experience in which you'll explore wonderful places. The inspiration for the environments comes from the Renzo Piano designs and from the book "Origins of Architectural Pleasure" in which the welfare is of primary importance.
Why similar: VR 55.3%, Adventure 26.1%, Indie 18.6%
- #56 Blind Touch
60% 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: Indie 61.5%, Adventure 38.5%