
Sometimes art isn't the product of a grand vision but rather the process. It's hard to know what you are trying to say until you've already said it.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Exploration, Walking Simulator, First-Person, Atmospheric.

Sometimes art isn't the product of a grand vision but rather the process. It's hard to know what you are trying to say until you've already said it.

Proteus
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.

Aquarelle
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.
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 22.9%, Experimental 14.4% ★, Beautiful 12.9% ★, Procedural Generation 12%, Relaxing 10.8%
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 22.3% ★, Surreal 18.4%, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Open World 9.9%, Relaxing 9.8%
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: Beautiful 20% ★, Experimental 17.3% ★, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Surreal 11.4%, Relaxing 7.4%
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 31.9%, Surreal 23.4%, Exploration 11.4%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Open World 7.8%
Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.7%, Surreal 19.6%, Exploration 12.4%, Atmospheric 10.7%, Open World 10.4%
Blind Souls is a first-person adventure game where you can see the world through the eyes of a dead painter.
Why similar: Beautiful 31.8% ★, Walking Simulator 19.6%, Open World 10.6%, Relaxing 10.1%, Exploration 8.2%
The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.6%, Surreal 14.6%, Exploration 12%, Atmospheric 11.4%, First-Person 8.4%
Explore this set of 4 distinct short experimental games and experience impossible worlds filled with audiovisual and narrative contradictions.
Why similar: Experimental 26.7% ★, Walking Simulator 20%, Surreal 14.2%, Game Development 10.2% ★, Exploration 8.5%
MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.4%, Experimental 12.7% ★, Beautiful 12.1% ★, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Surreal 10.1%
Overseas is a collection of four short art games, or digital poems. So far, it includes four episodes: a psychedelic trip, a forest horror, a crash course on shamanic techniques, and a simulator of an identity crisis. Take a journey across worlds and figure out the obscure meaning of what is going on.
Why similar: Experimental 17.8% ★, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Surreal 12.1%, Philosophical 11.7%
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 19.4% ★, Walking Simulator 17.5%, Game Development 15.1% ★, Surreal 14.3%, Procedural Generation 11.7%
The Tedium and You is an experimental first-person boredom simulator. Getting points is easy: just walk back and forth across a boring hallway. But that likely won't hold your interest. Explore the facility instead to find that the more you see, the less you know.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.4%, Procedural Generation 16%, Experimental 15.7% ★, Philosophical 12.6%, Exploration 8.3%
MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.4%, Surreal 23.2%, Beautiful 12.2% ★, Atmospheric 9.6%, First-Person 8.5%
Take a break from action-packed franchises and brain teasers. Slowly explore a procedural world of beauty and scan mysterious Treasures and Creatures. Gentle adversity and frequent milestones keep you engaged while you get lost in a pathless paradise.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Procedural Generation 16.5%, Surreal 15.2%, Philosophical 13.3%, Relaxing 9.9%
Explore the Valley of Mists, where lucid dreams create reality. Study people's dreams and determine their fate. Leave the hectic world for a while and return to yourself.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23%, Philosophical 18.2%, Surreal 14.6%, Open World 11.6%, Exploration 8.5%
Photonic Distress (or PD for short) is a blend of First/Third Person puzzler/platformer with a unique twist. Navigate your way through randomly generated levels, lighting your way up, fighting enemies, sliding and collecting Memory Fragments to wake up!
Why similar: Beautiful 31.6% ★, Experimental 26.2% ★, Procedural Generation 18.6%, Relaxing 10.4%, First-Person 5.6%
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 29.3% ★, Walking Simulator 26%, Philosophical 19.9%, Exploration 10.6%, Atmospheric 7.1%
A virtual reality experience where you explore mysterious landscapes and meet the entities inhabiting it.
Why similar: Beautiful 23.7% ★, Experimental 23% ★, Walking Simulator 19%, Exploration 7.5%, Philosophical 7.2%
Two games in one! - Prove you are not human by completing 9 impossible challenges. - Explore various scenes directly inspired by a poem, solving a few riddles along the way.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.3%, Surreal 16.7%, Philosophical 13%, Exploration 12.7%, Experimental 9.3% ★
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: Walking Simulator 30.7%, Beautiful 18.4% ★, Exploration 13.5%, Atmospheric 8.4%, First-Person 8.3%
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 39.4%, Surreal 24.2%, Exploration 13.1%, First-Person 9.8%, Atmospheric 5.4%
Chasing colors in the void. A game we made to Zen you.
Why similar: Experimental 21.6% ★, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Surreal 14.6%, Philosophical 14.4%, Relaxing 7.9%
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 37.5% ★, Walking Simulator 23.3%, First-Person 11.9%, Exploration 10.6%, Adventure 6.9%
The plane crashed, bringing an abrupt end to your journey. You regain consciousness in a strange lucid dream filled with interactive cube puzzles, where a mysterious voice guides you through the changing landscape. What is happening? Who are you? Do you have what it takes to wake up?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.8%, Philosophical 13.8%, Surreal 13.8%, Open World 9.3%, Relaxing 9.2%
The media is quick to put figures to death tolls in such disasters, and 9.03m tries to remind people of the individuals behind those figures. 9.03m is set on Baker Beach in San Francisco, where debris from the tsunami has washed ashore in the years following the tsunami. To play, you must find the butterflies.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 37.9%, Experimental 20.4% ★, Beautiful 16.9% ★, Exploration 10.6%, First-Person 8%
You think you heard something? You are wrong. You can't find the way out? You've always been lost. Escape is ephemeral. Existence is temporary. Remember. The light is changing.
Why similar: Beautiful 22.2% ★, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Philosophical 12.9%, Surreal 12.5%, Relaxing 7.1%
You are a ghost forever trapped in endless worlds you never even knew existed. An atmospheric experience focused on slow pacing, exploration, and deep environmental immersion.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34%, Surreal 12.3%, Exploration 12.2%, First-Person 10.1%, Relaxing 8.5%
Chionophile is a very short experience about the mood of winter in the woods.
Why similar: Experimental 36.6% ★, Walking Simulator 25.6%, Exploration 10.1%, Philosophical 9%, First-Person 6.9%
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.6%, Open World 16.1%, Exploration 13%, First-Person 11.3%, Philosophical 7.9%
Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.
Why similar: Beautiful 44.2% ★, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Relaxing 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Exploration 8.6%
You're stranded at a cathedral-like train station in the near future, searching for a ticket out of town. Explore the secret passageways, interact with strangers, dig for records, and get hypnotized by the soundtrack – a batch of original music courtesy of the band, Archie Pelago.
Why similar: Surreal 34.2%, Walking Simulator 32.8%, First-Person 7.8%, Great Soundtrack 7%, Atmospheric 5.5%
A man embarks on a journey toward the top of a mountain, to discover the truth of his existence. Along the way, he ponders the nature of life itself. Drizzlepath: Deja Vu is a spiritual revisitation of Tonguç Bodur's very first game, Drizzlepath.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.2%, Beautiful 22.5% ★, Philosophical 10.8%, Relaxing 9.5%, First-Person 8.5%
Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.
Why similar: Philosophical 26.9%, Experimental 16.1% ★, Open World 11.1%, Relaxing 10.6%, Walking Simulator 9.4%
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 38.1% ★, Surreal 18.6%, Philosophical 13.9%, Walking Simulator 11%, First-Person 10.1%
A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.
Why similar: Beautiful 35.3% ★, Walking Simulator 28.9%, Exploration 11%, Atmospheric 9%, First-Person 7.7%
There is one rule in the game. And it needs to be broken. There is one goal. And when you attain it, you die.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 37.1%, Experimental 20.3% ★, Surreal 18.8%, Exploration 10%, Atmospheric 5.5%
The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness. Think your way through dozens of puzzles as you traverse parallel worlds, awaken mysterious artifacts and overcome challenging obstacles on an unforgettable journey.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.9%, Surreal 16.5%, Philosophical 16.5%, Relaxing 10.2%, First-Person 8.8%
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.3%, Surreal 19.1%, Exploration 15.5%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Beautiful 10.2% ★
Fancy a relaxing drift through magical waters? Enjoy this seafaring voyage in search of the sunset!
Why similar: Beautiful 29.9% ★, Experimental 15.4% ★, Relaxing 12.8%, Surreal 12.7%, First-Person 6.9%
A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.
Why similar: Experimental 22% ★, Surreal 17.8%, Walking Simulator 17.8%, Philosophical 14.8%, First-Person 6.8%
A majestic, first person exploration game that delves you into the personal story of you and Zack as you traverse beautiful terrains and discover the forgotten truth that is buried away deep inside.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 39%, Exploration 12.8%, First-Person 11.6%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Relaxing 7.2%
Pastel is a Single-Player 3D Adventure Puzzle Game. Play as Pastel, a nine-tailed fox who has just woken up in an overgrown forest with no memory of who she is or how she got there. You will need to travel through time to recover her memories and prevent a great calamity from taking place.
Why similar: Beautiful 26.9% ★, Walking Simulator 16%, Relaxing 13.1%, Open World 9.8%, Exploration 9.8%
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Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.6%, Surreal 19.5%, Procedural Generation 15.6%, Open World 12.7%, Exploration 9.5%
Your Way is a travel simulator with a conundrum element. Here you can walk through the forest and admire nature.
Why similar: Experimental 25.9% ★, Walking Simulator 22.7%, Open World 13.4%, Relaxing 9.1%, Exploration 9%
She continues to dream. A first-person dream simulator where you explore a corner of a dream.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.5%, Surreal 27.7%, Relaxing 15%, First-Person 7%, Atmospheric 6.5%
I wolf down a cold, lonely meal. Work's wearing me down, and money's shaky. The syrup I pour into my cold coffee never mixes, no matter how much I stir. So I figure I'll just wander around in my dreams.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 47.9%, Exploration 16%, Atmospheric 13.3%, First-Person 13.1%, Adventure 6.8%
Forest Tower is a first-person narrative exploration game about solitude, silence, and the hidden mysteries of a vast forest. You play as a lone watchtower keeper, observing the wilderness, communicating via radio, and uncovering a quiet, emotional story through exploration and dialogue
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.2%, Open World 16.5%, Atmospheric 15.1%, Exploration 13.7%, Adventure 9.6%
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: Walking Simulator 20.1%, Experimental 18.6% ★, Philosophical 16.4%, Surreal 15.7%, Relaxing 9.2%
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 38.2% ★, Game Development 22.3% ★, Surreal 13.2%, Exploration 10%, Adventure 6.9%
A contemplative experience where you’ll wander through the dreams, memories and fantasies emerging from a dialogue between a grandfather and his grandchild.
Why similar: Experimental 25.9% ★, Walking Simulator 22.2%, Surreal 17.8%, Relaxing 9.9%, Atmospheric 7.4%
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 30.4% ★, Walking Simulator 26.4%, Exploration 10.9%, Surreal 10.8%, Adventure 9%
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 29.5%, Surreal 22.9%, Atmospheric 13.5%, First-Person 12.7%, Exploration 12.5%
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 36%, Exploration 15.8%, Relaxing 13.6%, First-Person 12.5%, Atmospheric 6.4%
Nephise Begins tells the player what happened at the time before Nephise was an orb collector. The main setting is forest again, but this time without snow, instead a more sunny and foggy weather.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.2%, Beautiful 16.3% ★, Relaxing 10.9%, First-Person 8.9%, Atmospheric 8.5%
LIMEN: MoonCity is an atmospheric episodic adventure game that allows the player to traverse between memories using a system called Observe OS.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36%, Experimental 20.7% ★, Atmospheric 11.5%, First-Person 9.5%, Adventure 8.9%
Trackless is an atmospheric first-person exploration and puzzle game set in the distant future. Trackless uses text input that allows you to interact with characters and objects. Using your in-game phone will help you find clues and give you special abilities.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.3%, Beautiful 18.3% ★, Experimental 16.7% ★, Philosophical 12.8%, Atmospheric 7.2%
Grow a beautiful island as you build a daily habit of mindfulness and meditation. Experience relaxation and learn ways to care for your mental wellbeing.
Why similar: Experimental 19.5% ★, Philosophical 18.8%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Open World 11.5%, Relaxing 11.4%
This is a first-person open-world game similar to a walking simulator.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 48.5%, Open World 18.4%, Exploration 16.4%, First-Person 12.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%