
The maze that hypnotized a generation is back. It was a screensaver. But now? You can finally walk those halls yourself. Or just relax and watch, like the old times. Share your custom texture packs in the Steam Workshop.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Atmospheric, Exploration, Singleplayer, Walking Simulator.

The maze that hypnotized a generation is back. It was a screensaver. But now? You can finally walk those halls yourself. Or just relax and watch, like the old times. Share your custom texture packs in the Steam Workshop.

Back to Hearth
Step into a quiet, abandoned Ukrainian village, left empty after the Calamity. In this short, meditative, and melancholic journey, you’ll rekindle the hearths of deserted homes, restoring warmth and hope to the families who once lived here.

Drift
A calm, dreamlike exploration experience set in a procedurally generated world where shifting landscapes and quiet structures emerge from the haze.
Step into a quiet, abandoned Ukrainian village, left empty after the Calamity. In this short, meditative, and melancholic journey, you’ll rekindle the hearths of deserted homes, restoring warmth and hope to the families who once lived here.
Why similar: Cozy 27.4%, Walking Simulator 25.5%, Exploration 12.1%, First-Person 9.7%, Atmospheric 9.5%
A calm, dreamlike exploration experience set in a procedurally generated world where shifting landscapes and quiet structures emerge from the haze.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Procedural Generation 14.8%, Surreal 14%, Relaxing 9.9%, Exploration 9.4%
Sandweh is a cozy sand-surfing journey about carving trails, catching air, and drifting through quiet desert worlds shaped by wind and sand.
Why similar: Cozy 32.6%, Procedural Generation 18.6%, Relaxing 12.3%, Minimalist 10.5%, Exploration 9.6%
Explore the Poolrooms as if it were lost media from 1998.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.3%, Surreal 18%, 1990's 13.7%, Nostalgia 10.2% ★, Old School 9.1%
Explore multiple worlds in first-person, composing views and transforming them into living jigsaw puzzles.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.9%, Surreal 15.7%, Relaxing 12.1%, Cozy 9.2%, Exploration 9.1%
Step into a surreal dreamlike world in this atmospheric walking simulator. Explore strange liminal spaces, wander through mysterious environments, and experience a world where reality follows the rules of a dream.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.1%, Surreal 16.6%, Exploration 13.2%, Relaxing 10.8%, First-Person 9.6%
Explore procedurally generated mazes in a retro first-person adventure inspired by late-1990s computer graphics. Unlock new texture packs, discover strange encounters, and race to improve your best time.
Why similar: 1990's 19.7%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, Procedural Generation 13.5%, Exploration 12.6%, Old School 12.4%
Milk and Pixels: A Cozy Brick Breaker. Inspired by EMDR therapy, track the ball across gentle day-to-night pixelated skies, soak in mindful affirmations, catch fireflies, and unwind at your own pace. It's a nostalgic brick breaker for the rest of us.
Why similar: Cozy 32.4%, Relaxing 12.6%, 1990's 9.7%, Retro 9.3%, Minimalist 7.7%
Wander through bright liminal spaces shaped by distant summer memories. Ride a childhood scooter, reveal hidden paths with Dream Vision, and capture surreal moments with your camera. No combat—just calm exploration.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.4%, Surreal 22.8%, Exploration 12.4%, Relaxing 11.1%, Atmospheric 8.7%
Dream Voyage is an Indie Story rich Walking simulator focused on the exploration of introspective surreal levels in the dream world of a 10 years old blind child who's looking for the memories of their late mother. Dream Voyage's hudless experience will immerse you in this emotive searching.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 37.7%, Surreal 24.8%, Exploration 13.5%, First-Person 9.9%, 3D 8.5%
Some days, you just need a quiet place to be. Come to a little island far away, where you can wander at your own pace, watch the sky change, and discover little wonders. No rush, no expectations, nothing you need to do. Just a beautiful place to stay awhile.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.7%, Cozy 22.8%, Exploration 13.4%, First-Person 9%, Relaxing 8.7%
Set off on a calm and beautiful adventure exploring a vast mystical island in search of the lost Manaliths. Walk, climb, swim, and glide through valleys, woods, caverns, and coves discovering the island's secrets as you go.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.5%, Surreal 27.8%, Exploration 13.7%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Relaxing 7.6%
Restore light to quiet, contemplative spaces in this atmospheric idle game. Click to gather soft particles of light. Use what you have gathered to release more light and illuminate each scene.
Why similar: Cozy 34.2%, Surreal 18.1%, Relaxing 12.3%, Minimalist 10.6%, Atmospheric 8%
DIRUS Software's lost 1999 cult-classic is back! Explore its confusing and stygian world for yourself in this newly remastered edition, and uncover the mystery of its warped labyrinths and crossroads. Find hidden secrets unknown even to the original developers.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.6%, Surreal 17%, Exploration 11.4%, Minimalist 8.7%, First-Person 8.3%
project_Structure_01 is first-person exploration game focusing on atmosphere and exploration of surreal liminal spaces that feature brutalist architecture.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.8%, Surreal 21.6%, Exploration 12.2%, First-Person 11.8%, Atmospheric 10.7%
A five-minute experience. Give a stranger a coin, write your name on a post-it, and stick it on a permanent wall shared by every player. Come back anytime to find your name and see how far the wall has grown.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30%, Cozy 14.1%, Exploration 10.9%, Minimalist 10.5%, First-Person 9.6%
Poolcore is an atmospheric game about liminal poolrooms. Jump into the water, solve puzzles and roam freely in these eerily comforting rooms.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.9%, Surreal 19.5%, Nostalgia 18.1% ★, Relaxing 9.6%, First-Person 9%
First person cozy walking simulator. You are a frog archaeologist on a journey to the elusive Frog island. Cozy hiking adventure in a magical forest with casual puzzles, ancient frog statues... And put hats on frogs!
Why similar: Cozy 28.8%, Walking Simulator 22.3%, Relaxing 12.4%, Exploration 8.7%, First-Person 7.4%
Take a break from life and enjoy a Liminal Space Holiday. A Relaxing Liminal Space Adventure full of Beautiful Atmospheric Nostalgic Locations and Artwork.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Cozy 18%, 1990's 12.6%, Minimalist 10.2%, First-Person 7.8%
A sleeping village waits in the dark. You are its Keeper — you light its lanterns not with fire, but with fireflies that carry the song each one holds. A quiet first-person game about walking, light, and a melody that grows with every lantern you wake.
Why similar: Cozy 29.3%, Walking Simulator 22%, Relaxing 9%, Exploration 8.8%, Minimalist 8.1%
Embark on a procedural liminal journey filled with eerie, unfriendly faces. Walk, explore, and descend to the first floor to escape. No monsters will chase you, but they can watch and appear when you aren't looking. This can evoke a fear of an endless labyrinth and create a sense of anxiety.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.3%, Surreal 20.3%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Minimalist 10.7%, Exploration 8.9%
A psychological horror experience where reality twists behind every corner. Explore disturbing rooms, uncover buried memories, and descend into madness. Can you make it through all one hundred doors?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.4%, 1990's 14.1%, Exploration 11.1%, Surreal 8.5%, First-Person 7.9%
LIMINOID is an immersive first-person exploration game set in dream-like liminal spaces. Explore, admire and progress throughout surreal landscapes and labyrinth structures that should not exist.
Why similar: Surreal 22.5%, Walking Simulator 20.7%, 1990's 13.4%, Exploration 10.8%, Relaxing 8.8%
Step into a surreal city of the old future. Explore environments shaped by the soul of early 2000s design. Slow down inside a world built to be remembered.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.8%, Relaxing 13%, Surreal 12.9%, Exploration 11.9%, 3D 8.5%
White Clouds is a cozy first-person game. An old house is waiting for someone to come back. You tend to repair old furniture, clean lakes, plant flowers, brew tea, and write haiku about what you see. Travellers climb up to visit. Find your peace above the clouds.
Why similar: Cozy 36.6%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Relaxing 10.7%, Exploration 10.6%, First-Person 9.4%
FIRED is a retro-styled puzzle adventure game centered around the story of a young employee who gets laid off under mysterious circumstances. Explore the world, solve puzzles, and work to take down the evil Orcus Corporation.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.5%, Surreal 19.4%, Exploration 15%, First-Person 10.5%, Old School 9.9%
Walk home from school — and step into a different story every time. Talk to the people you pass in town, or take a closer look at the things around you, and a new tale begins.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.1%, 1990's 16.1%, Exploration 12.6%, First-Person 8.9%, Casual 8.1%
Explore eerie liminal spaces in a low-poly Backrooms horror experience inspired by the aesthetics of forgotten 90s technology.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Surreal 20%, 1990's 18.8%, Exploration 8.3%, Atmospheric 6.4%
Embark on a surreal exploration of a digital island. Explore a silent virtual world and discover never-before-seen moments of transformation and hidden paths.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.4%, Surreal 21.1%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Exploration 9%, Relaxing 8.8%
Enter the world of Milly, a troubled tattoo artist who sets out to revive her dying neighborhood by collecting remaining stories through her art. Walk the streets of Nortown, witness the comes and goes of its people, and redefine the meaning behind each tattoo in this first person narrative game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.7%, Exploration 13.6%, Surreal 13%, First-Person 12%, Cozy 11.5%
Snow and chill outside, but warmth in your heart. In this nostalgic first-person simulator, dive back into childhood and get ready for New Year’s Eve. Decorate the tree, build a snowman, play, and fully immerse yourself in the cozy vibe of the 90s.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.6%, Nostalgia 25.4% ★, 1990's 18.4%, Retro 8%, Atmospheric 6.8%
In this short first-person adventure game, you have to bring your friends over to the other mountain by using a tramway car. But beware! Each friend has their own agenda. You have to talk to them to decide which order they should be moved in. Based on a classic riddle.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.3%, Relaxing 15.2%, Minimalist 10.9%, First-Person 9.6%, Colorful 8.5%
You must discover the differences between what you see through the camera and with your own eyes to distinguish real floors from fake ones and escape. It is said that ghosts behave the opposite of humans, and taking the elevator is no exception.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.5%, Surreal 15.2%, Exploration 14%, First-Person 12.4%, 3D 8.1%
Dave's Fun Algebra Class: Remastered is a strategy-based indie game inspired by Baldi's Basics, featuring chaotic and intense gameplay mixed with an old-school psychedelic artstyle. Solve math problems, meet Dave's friends, and uncover the secrets of Dave's school.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.8%, Surreal 14.3%, 1990's 14.3%, Old School 13.1%, Exploration 8.1%
She continues to dream. A first-person dream simulator where you explore a corner of a dream.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.6%, Surreal 28%, Relaxing 14.4%, Minimalist 8.7%, First-Person 7.1%
Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33%, Exploration 16.1%, Relaxing 15.8%, Procedural Generation 15.5%, First-Person 6.5%
Embark on an epic adventure of gliding and battling through mystical lands in RINBO, where discovery awaits at every turn!
Why similar: Cozy 36.4%, Exploration 11.6%, Relaxing 10.9%, Walking Simulator 9.4%, Surreal 9.1%
This game is an action-adventure just walking.Travel through a world that changes dramatically just by going through the Ring.Go through the night world of glittering pieces of star and witness the one of three endings.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29%, Minimalist 14.1%, Surreal 10.1%, Relaxing 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.5%
Aerocore is a liminal walking simulator about the future they promised you and never arrived. Explore the corporation's simulation environments in this atmospheric experience. Alter the architecture by solving puzzles in impossible spaces and lose yourself in nostalgic aesthetics.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.5%, Surreal 18%, Nostalgia 16.5% ★, Exploration 10.7%, Relaxing 10.1%
Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.
Why similar: Nostalgia 27% ★, Walking Simulator 23.7%, Surreal 17%, 1990's 12.2%, Exploration 9.3%
OPEN THE DOOR TO WIN! Question your sanity in this first person exploration and puzzle game. Discover a place where anything you can dream of might just be a door away from you. Go on. Open the door. It's as simple as that!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.1%, Surreal 20.9%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Minimalist 11.7%, Exploration 11%
Explore, Listen and Observe. LIMINAL WATERS is a liminal space exploration game. Discover a large facility with diverse rooms and themes and be enchanted by the radiant beauty of Unreal Engine 5.6. Relaxation, anxiety, confusion or familiarity? The mysterious Poolrooms are waiting for you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.8%, Surreal 24.4%, Relaxing 14.3%, Cozy 10.4%, Atmospheric 7.3%
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: Surreal 21.7%, Walking Simulator 19.9%, 1990's 10.7%, Exploration 9.7%, Old School 8%
Do you like rocks? Come to Rocky Park to discover and collect as many as you can! Explore a cozy natural park at your own pace, meet its inhabitants, and let yourself be surprised by the little secrets hidden around every corner.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.9%, Exploration 16.4%, Relaxing 13.3%, First-Person 12.8%, Minimalist 10.6%
A cinematic horror experience based on exploration.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.5%, Surreal 14.3%, Exploration 13.2%, 1990's 11.1%, Atmospheric 7.6%
A humorous adventure set in a 3D parody of the internet. Diverse puzzles, beautiful worlds, friends, experiences, upgrades and more, await those who 'log on'!
Why similar: Surreal 29.6%, Walking Simulator 27.4%, 1990's 11.5%, Retro 10.3%, Exploration 6.8%
After discovering a strange anomaly on Jupiter's moon, Europa, you find yourself in the outer reaches of a dangerous, uncanny complex.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32%, Surreal 23%, Exploration 12.4%, 1990's 12.3%, First-Person 7.4%
What lies beyond The 4th Wall?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.5%, Surreal 31.3%, Exploration 12.4%, Minimalist 9.5%, First-Person 7.5%
A brief essay on desires and the consequences of having them. Feed an insaciable sovereign, explore surreal environments, and seek the hiddens ambitions within those who surround you.
Why similar: Surreal 26.8%, Walking Simulator 26.5%, 1990's 15.3%, Exploration 10.5%, Atmospheric 7.4%
Exploration. Silence. Echoes. Wander a shifting pyramid where rooms change and reality bends. No monsters, just atmosphere, isolation, and subtle unease. Uncanny, immersive, and unsettling. Solve light environmental puzzles across 8 levels. Experience the pyramid alone - empty, yet somehow present.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.2%, Surreal 22.1%, Relaxing 9.8%, Exploration 8.8%, Atmospheric 8%
Play as Boris, a curious baby boar who must learn how to use his nose to reunite with his family after a forest fire. Explore beautiful landscapes, track scents, and uncover secrets as you slowly reconnect with nature in this cozy animal adventure.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.6%, Cozy 16.2%, Relaxing 15.7%, Exploration 14.2%, Atmospheric 9.3%
17 Horror rooms simulating common phobias. Are you afraid of spiders, cockroaches, snakes, heights, fire, being buried alive? Enter the black doors and conquer your fears!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.5%, Surreal 20.3%, Exploration 13.1%, First-Person 10.8%, Minimalist 10.2%
Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29%, Surreal 26.2%, Exploration 16.1%, Atmospheric 11.4%, First-Person 10.2%
You have stumbled upon a museum you might have not intended to find. But it called to you. And you realized you ended up someplace…roiling…alive. If you interact with the art, some speak while others hold bygone echoes. You’ve heeded the call. It’s up to you now to explore.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.8%, Surreal 20.4%, Relaxing 11.6%, Exploration 10.7%, Sandbox 8.6%
Take a break and relax! No rush – enjoy the journey and soak in the sights. Capture stunning photos across millions of unique islands in this tranquil walking simulator.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Procedural Generation 16.8%, Surreal 15.6%, Relaxing 10%, Minimalist 9.9%
Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.6%, Surreal 18%, Exploration 13.3%, First-Person 10.3%, Relaxing 9.2%
Aquariums is a liminal space horror adventure with elements of thalassophobia and poolrooms. You find yourself in a mysterious facility full of oversized Aquariums and Sea Life. Navigate the flooded rooms to find out the secret behind this sinister place.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.2%, Surreal 20.3%, Relaxing 11.6%, Exploration 10.5%, Minimalist 9.9%
Driven by the anxieties and pressures of reality, I wander and reflect within my dreams. Relax, walk freely, feel the surroundings, and embark on a journey to gradually restore your inner peace.
Why similar: Cozy 35.2%, Walking Simulator 22.9%, Relaxing 17%, First-Person 10.2%, Atmospheric 9.9%
A first-person exploration game about the eerie stillness of liminal spaces. Solve puzzles and navigate surreal environments. Built entirely on atmosphere, with zero jump scares.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.1%, Surreal 27.2%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Exploration 11.4%, First-Person 8.6%
Loverowind is a very short experience about the wind of spring.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 37.4%, Exploration 13.3%, Surreal 10.9%, First-Person 9%, Casual 8.8%