- #1 Dreamscaper
97% matchVery Positive88% of 3,143 reviews2021
Dev: Afterburner StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
By night, delve deep into your subconscious and discover powerful artifacts to conquer your nightmares. By day, explore the city of Redhaven and build relationships to unlock the power of your dreams. DREAM. DIE. WAKE. REPEAT.
Why similar: RPG 43.7%, Action 29%, Adventure 12.4%, Story Rich 7.5%, Fantasy 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the concept of fighting through surreal dreamscapes using a blend of action and RPG mechanics.
- #2 Control Ultimate Edition
96% matchVery Positive86% of 59,077 reviews2020
Dev: Remedy Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Winner of over 80 awards, Control is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 30.2%, Horror 15.5%, Third Person 14.8%, Shooter 10.7%, Action 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features reality-bending environments and high-octane action that mirrors the dream-meets-reality theme of the seed game.
- #3 Psychonauts 2
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 13,956 reviews2021
Dev: Double Fine ProductionsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
Why similar: Psychedelic 31%, Psychological 21%, Action-Adventure 11.7%, Third Person 11%, Story Rich 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: You explore distinct, surreal mental worlds that embody the creative and psychological depth found in dream-based adventures.
- #4 SIGNALIS
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 31,986 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Why similar: Survival Horror 44.2%, Third-Person Shooter 20.5%, Shooter 12.8%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Action 6%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a surreal, atmospheric survival experience with deep psychological themes and a distinct visual identity.
- #5 Hypnagogia 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams
94% 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: Horror 28%, Exploration 24.5%, Adventure 15.2%, Stylized 14.4%, 3D 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on atmospheric, surreal exploration that captures the feeling of wandering through a dream state.
- #6 Cruelty Squad
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,134 reviews2021
Dev: Consumer Softproducts
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world
Why similar: Psychedelic 51.3%, Shooter 27.8%, Stylized 13.7%, Action 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a bizarre, psychedelic, and highly tactical immersive sim experience that pushes the boundaries of traditional action games.
- #7 Katana ZERO
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 74,545 reviews2019
Dev: AskiisoftPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
Why similar: Story Rich 50.8%, Action 49.2%
Why You'll Like It: The game features a dream-like narrative structure combined with fast-paced, high-stakes action sequences.
- #8 Alice: Madness Returns
92% matchVery Positive91% of 28,372 reviews2011
Dev: Spicy Horse GamesPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Alice: Madness Returns is a third-person, single-player, action adventure platformer. Visit the grim reality of Victorian London and travel to the beautiful yet ghastly Wonderland to uncover the root of Alice's madness.
Why similar: Psychological 18.9%, Horror 18.8%, Action-Adventure 17.9%, Third Person 14.4%, Story Rich 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is a quintessential surreal action-adventure game that explores the dark corners of a fractured psyche.
- #9 L.S.D.: Prologue to Lasting Spiritual Derangement
91% 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: Psychedelic 30.3%, Psychological 17.5%, Action-Adventure 15.5%, Shooter 13.5%, Exploration 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A direct exploration of surreal, psychedelic dream-logic that aligns closely with the seed game's core theme.
- #10 Pathologic 2
91% matchVery Positive92% of 11,869 reviews2019
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Why similar: Survival Horror 30.5%, Survival 29.7%, RPG 18.7%, Story Rich 13.5%, Adventure 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deeply immersive, surreal survival-RPG experience where the world itself feels like a shifting nightmare.
- #11 Superliminal
90% matchVery Positive95% of 32,646 reviews2020
Dev: Pillow Castle
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Why similar: Psychedelic 38.2%, Psychological 28.1%, Exploration 14.3%, Story Rich 10.5%, Adventure 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game plays with perspective and reality in a way that mirrors the dream-logic exploration found in Project Morpheus.
- #12 Post Void
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 12,026 reviews2020
Dev: YCJY Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Post Void is a hypnotic scramble of early first-person shooter design that values speed above all else. Keep your head full and reach the end; Kill what you can to see it mend; Get the high score or try again.
Why similar: Psychedelic 59.9%, Shooter 30.1%, Action 10%
Why You'll Like It: A high-speed, psychedelic shooter that focuses on pure, visceral action within a surrealist aesthetic.
- #13 Dark Fracture: Prologue
89% matchVery Positive83% of 1,356 reviews2020
Dev: Twisted II Studio
Windows
Dark Fracture is a psychological horror experience in which you explore an ever-changing world where reality and nightmares collide. Walk on the edge of madness in the shoes of a tormented soul as you descend into the darkest depths of the human psyche, and question everything you see.
Why similar: Survival Horror 25.4%, Horror 18.6%, Action-Adventure 14.9%, Psychological 14.7%, Exploration 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on psychological exploration and the breakdown of reality, mirroring the seed game's narrative focus.
- #14 Void Bastards
88% matchVery Positive86% of 5,386 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Manchu
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?
Why similar: Shooter 40.4%, Strategy 24.7%, Stylized 22%, Action 13%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends strategy and shooter mechanics with a unique, stylized aesthetic that feels both surreal and tactical.
- #15 ULTRAKILL
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 219,292 reviews2020
Dev: Arsi "Hakita" PatalaPub: New Blood Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 31.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
Why similar: Shooter 75.7%, Action 24.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides fast-paced, skill-based action within a surreal and stylized world that challenges player reflexes.
- #16 THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 361 reviews2023
Dev: Three Dots GamesPub: Take Aim Games
Windows
Welcome to a breathtaking storyline full of portals, solving puzzles with an energy-absorbing weapon, and other adventures in a sci-fi atmosphere! Can you travel through parallel dimensions and uncover the secrets of your past?
Why similar: Action-Adventure 25%, Horror 23.8%, Exploration 19.4%, Story Rich 11.7%, Action 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy game that challenges the player with surreal puzzles and a shifting reality.
- #17 Hotline Miami
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 121,152 reviews2012
Dev: Dennaton GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Why similar: Psychedelic 58.3%, Action 22.1%, Shooter 19.6%
Why You'll Like It: The game features a surreal, fever-dream narrative paired with intense, top-down action gameplay.
- #18 The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
84% matchVery Positive94% of 34,321 reviews2022
Dev: Crows Crows Crows
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
Why similar: Exploration 30.8%, Horror 18.7%, Story Rich 18%, 3D 17.3%, Adventure 15.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game explores meta-narrative and reality-bending themes that resonate with the surreal nature of the seed game.
- #19 Night Reverie: Prologue
85% matchVery Positive92% of 281 reviews2020
Dev: Somber Pixel
Windows
Night Reverie: Prologue is the first act of a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.
Why similar: Exploration 57.5%, Story Rich 26.5%, Adventure 15.9%
Why You'll Like It: It uses puzzle-solving and exploration to navigate a surreal, dream-like world.
- #20 Rabbit Hole Chapter 1
84% matchVery Positive82% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: Blazes Games
Windows
An ancient evil has descended upon the rural town of Rabbit Hole. Now Shaun Turner not only has to untangle a twisted web of supernatural events and mysteries to save his family but also escape from the hellish remains of his hometown.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 16.8%, Psychedelic 14.8%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Shooter 10.7%, Survival 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends psychological horror with action-adventure elements in a way that feels grounded yet surreal.
- #21 ZERO PROTOCOL
82% matchVery Positive85% of 574 reviews2024
Dev: R_Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
In this immersive sci-fi thriller, you will experience the atmosphere of classic 3D games as you solve puzzles, follow an intriguing non-linear storyline, and engage in battles with monsters.
Why similar: Survival Horror 30.3%, Shooter 16.8%, Exploration 13.5%, Stylized 11.5%, Horror 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: This survival-horror title emphasizes exploration and atmospheric tension in a mysterious, reality-bending setting.
- #22 GLITCH DADDY
83% 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: Psychedelic 40.6%, Action-Adventure 21.9%, Exploration 14.9%, Stylized 13.6%, Adventure 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game embraces a psychedelic and surreal aesthetic while incorporating puzzle and action-adventure elements.
- #23 DUSK
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 24,919 reviews2018
Dev: David SzymanskiPub: New Blood Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
Why similar: Shooter 50%, Horror 36.9%, Action 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired shooter that leans heavily into surreal, occult, and atmospheric horror elements.
- #24 Gloomwood
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,888 reviews2022
Dev: Dillon RogersPub: New Blood Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.
Why similar: Survival Horror 51.4%, Shooter 23.4%, Exploration 18.3%, Action 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This immersive sim offers a dark, surreal atmosphere with deep exploration and stealth-action mechanics.
- #25 Entity Researchers: Prologue
81% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: Newbuild-CPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows · Linux
You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
Why similar: Horror 33.7%, Exploration 33.2%, RPG 33.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a dungeon-crawling experience with roguelite elements that focus on exploration and survival.
- #26 Quasimorph
79% matchVery Positive83% of 5,924 reviews2023
Dev: Magnum ScriptumPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based extraction RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
Why similar: RPG 48.4%, Strategy 45.6%, Story Rich 6%
Why You'll Like It: A complex extraction-shooter and RPG hybrid that features tactical depth and a dark, surreal sci-fi setting.
- #27 F.E.A.R.
81% matchVery Positive94% of 18,784 reviews2010
Dev: Monolith Productions, Inc.Pub: Warner Bros. Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.
Why similar: Horror 50.4%, Shooter 24.2%, Action 15.2%, Survival Horror 5.8%, Story Rich 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It masterfully combines tactical shooter gameplay with psychological horror and reality-warping events.
- #28 BACKROOMS NO RETURN: Prologue
80% matchMostly Negative33% of 1,186 reviews2024
Dev: FriedGPU
Windows
Explore the poolrooms in a inmersive cooperative horror game. Immerse yourself in the story of scientists who are exploring the depths of the poolrooms and end up encountering various obstacles in order to find a way back to reality.
Why similar: Survival Horror 26.5%, Horror 19.9%, Psychological 19.6%, Story Rich 9.2%, 3D 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the surreal, liminal space aesthetic that is central to many dream-like horror experiences.
- #29 Bygone Dreams: Prophecy
77% matchVery Positive87% of 197 reviews2025
Dev: Prime Time
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Bygone Dreams: Prophecy is a free prologue for a high fantasy Action-Adventure game set inside a surreal dream world. Face fantastical adversaries, solve puzzles, and fight your way through challenging bosses in your quest to save the world's matron deity and stop the nightmare consuming the dream.
Why similar: RPG 23.4%, Action-Adventure 23%, Adventure 13.3%, Action 13.2%, 3D 8.9%
- #30 Westwood Shadows: Prologue
78% matchVery Positive84% of 151 reviews2021
Dev: RedSoup Studio
Windows
A police detective returns to his abandoned hometown, where he must confront his past and an unsolved case draped in shadows. Follow Peter Bennet through a first-person, puzzle-solving horror game, and sample the mystery and heavy atmosphere of Westwood Shadows.
Why similar: Survival Horror 39.7%, Horror 24.1%, Action 10.8%, Story Rich 9.3%, Adventure 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror experience that blends action and exploration within a dark, psychological framework.
- #31 Dap
78% matchVery Positive95% of 155 reviews2021
Dev: Melting Parrot
Windows
Dap is a horror-action-adventure about gathering and protecting a pack of fragile creatures called Daps. Lead your Daps to safety through an eerily beautiful world, fighting off threats, solving puzzles, and avoiding the infection that twists your companions into something alien and terrifying…
Why similar: Psychedelic 28.9%, Action-Adventure 25.7%, Horror 24.3%, Action 10.8%, Adventure 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric action game that explores surreal themes through a unique, top-down perspective.
- #32 Force of Nature 2: Prologue
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Force of Nature 2: Prologue is an introduction to the world of the main game. Explore one of the many worlds and uncover its mystery. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: RPG 17.1%, Strategy 16.4%, Survival 16.2%, Exploration 13.6%, Adventure 9.7%
- #33 THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE: Foreword
76% matchVery Positive82% of 265 reviews2023
Dev: Three Dots GamesPub: Take Aim Games
Windows
This prologue was created to present an overall concept of the main game through a pair of gameplay hours to introduce you to some of the game’s mechanics, creatures, and ideas.
Why similar: Action-Adventure 28%, Exploration 26.1%, Action 12.9%, Adventure 11.8%, 3D 11.4%
- #34 Project Liminal 2
73% matchVery Positive96% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: AquaHeaven StudiosPub: TXC
Windows
Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.
Why similar: Shooter 28.4%, Adventure 19.5%, Action 17.2%, Exploration 16.1%, Stylized 10.6%
- #35 Reverie Knights Tactics: Prologue
75% matchMixed69% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: 40 Giants EntertainmentPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Reverie Knights Tactics: Prologue takes you on a journey to a hand-drawn fantasy world, where you guide your heroes through the first hour of the upcoming tactical RPG. The Prologue introduces you to the game’s story and includes three battles, as well as item crafting and character customization.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 44.1%, RPG 22.8%, Adventure 13%, Stylized 10%, Fantasy 10%
- #36 Lucid Blocks
68% 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: Psychedelic 37.6%, Survival 15%, Horror 14.2%, Exploration 9.6%, Action-Adventure 9%
- #37 Neospace: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: DreamStudios
Windows
You wake up in a spaceship, you realize that strange things are going on there, you try to get back to civilization. However, this is harder than you think, the encounters will drive you crazy and you will doubt yourself.
Why similar: RPG 23.6%, Action-Adventure 22.5%, Exploration 20.8%, Adventure 18.3%, 3D 8.6%
- #38 PROZE: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive82% of 104 reviews2018
Dev: SignSine
Windows
PROZE: Prologue is a free opening chapter for the PROZE series. It’s a story-based VR-adventure with puzzle and horror elements.
Why similar: Adventure 29.6%, Horror 25.1%, Action 17.6%, Exploration 17.4%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #39 Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III Prologue
72% matchVery Positive84% of 85 reviews2021
Dev: Detalion Games S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
In Nemesis: Mysterious Journey III Prologue you will take part in an adventure that will introduce you to the story of Nemesis: Mysterious Journey III. Take on the role of Amia and begin your holiday adventure on the planet Regilus!
Why similar: Exploration 34.5%, Story Rich 24.2%, Adventure 23.8%, 3D 17.6%
- #40 LSD Dream Emulator: Vaporwave (Wanderlust)
75% 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: RPG 30.9%, Strategy 29.1%, Adventure 21.1%, Action 18.9%
- #41 Emmerholt: Prologue
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 103 reviews2017
Dev: Oneiric Entertainment LLC
Windows
This is the prologue of Emmerholt - an upcoming open world, magic wielding, story driven, adventure game for the HTC Vive, and Oculus Touch. Currently in development by Oneiric Entertainment!
Why similar: RPG 45.1%, Adventure 28.7%, Action 26.2%
- #42 The Riftbreaker: Prologue
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 4,121 reviews2020
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Why similar: Survival 33.2%, Strategy RPG 29.3%, Exploration 16.1%, Strategy 13.2%, RPG 5.3%
- #43 Who Knocks
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 71 reviews2022
Dev: Daniele Doesn't MatterPub: Doesn't Matter Games
Windows
Who Knocks is a first person psychological horror game that will make your nightmares come true. You have just moved into a new home. Welcome the presences that will knock at your door. Solve puzzles, explore the environment and fight your nightmares.
Why similar: Survival Horror 24.8%, Psychological 17.3%, Horror 15.8%, Action-Adventure 13.7%, Exploration 11.5%
- #44 Dap: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive96% of 120 reviews2021
Dev: Melting Parrot
Windows
Dap: Prologue is a short dive into the eerie world of Dap, the upcoming horror-action-adventure about protecting a pack of fragile creatures against the creeping corruption tainting the woods and its inhabitants. Lead, scavenge, and fight, in a race for survival against otherwordly horrors.
Why similar: Psychedelic 31.1%, Horror 24.3%, Action-Adventure 17.9%, Action 11.3%, Adventure 8.5%
- #45 Orange Cast: Prologue
73% matchMixed47% of 123 reviews2020
Dev: Team RezPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Prologue to Orange Cast, an atmospheric adventure in a large-scale setting where Soviet and Western science fiction are combined itself. As a humanity’s elite space trooper, you take on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 37.5%, Shooter 24%, Third Person 14.8%, Action 9.8%, 3D 7.7%
- #46 The Obscura Experiment
70% matchVery Positive83% of 108 reviews2023
Dev: Anabasis & Co.Pub: UQAT - Création et nouveaux médias
Windows
Anabasis & Co. welcomes you to the family - we’re so glad to have you here! Your mandate as part of this research project will be to monitor and document a new energy form: the [REDACTED]. To begin, let’s review your perso- oh? We’re detecting some anomalies near you… care to investigate?
Why similar: Survival Horror 37%, Horror 27.9%, Exploration 19.7%, Action 9%, Action-Adventure 6.4%
- #47 Bygone Dreams
68% matchVery Positive80% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: Prime Time
Windows
Bygone Dreams is a high fantasy Action-Adventure set inside a surreal dream world. Face fantastical adversaries, solve puzzles, and fight your way through challenging bosses in your quest to save the world's matron deity and stop the nightmare consuming the dream.
Why similar: Action-Adventure 29.6%, Third Person 16.7%, Adventure 13.3%, RPG 11.5%, 3D 8.7%
- #48 Vanaris Tactics - Prologue
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: Matheus ReisPub: Toge Productions
Windows
Play the Prologue chapter of Vanaris Tactics. Lead a group of refugees looking for freedom outside the walls of Vanaris, and experience the first three battles and story of Vanaris Tactics.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 46.6%, RPG 18.2%, Strategy 18.1%, Stylized 10.4%, Fantasy 6.7%
- #49 Millennium Dream
64% matchVery Positive93% of 2,248 reviews2026
Dev: LucidDreamLab
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Wander through dreamscapes woven from memories of the millennium. Use your camera to freeze tender fragments of days gone by, collecting lost shards of childhood. In an atmosphere where Chinese Dreamcore and Liminal Space intertwine, savor a warmth that feels both familiar and strange.
Why similar: Exploration 30.4%, Horror 29%, Adventure 20.6%, 3D 12.3%, Action 7.7%
- #50 Endlanders : First Encounter
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 220 reviews2022
Dev: Eteros Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Build your deck, glitch through enemies, translate unknown languages and decipher the mysteries of this universe, in this grid-based real time combat indie game. This version features only one playable character and serves as the prologue for the game.
Why similar: RPG 42%, Exploration 35.3%, Action 22.7%
- #51 梦魇:无归 Nightmare without return
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 625 reviews2022
Dev: 青衣工作室
Windows
This is a journey without return When you wake up... In the strange space, the bronze gate that eats people, the strange rules of the game, and the ever-changing nightmare world appear in front of you Everything starts from here
Why similar: RPG 48.9%, Adventure 24.3%, Story Rich 14.5%, Stylized 12.3%
- #52 Russian Psychiatric Pastoral: Prologue
65% matchMostly Positive78% of 95 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan Lysenko
Windows
Introductory demonstration version. An interactive movie that combines a psychiatrist simulator, a detective story and unique fight sequences. Take on the role of a psychiatrist, encounter various psychiatric diagnoses, and investigate disappearances of various people.
Why similar: Horror 47.4%, Adventure 29.7%, Story Rich 22.9%
- #53 One Dreamer: Prologue
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 797 reviews2020
Dev: One Dreamer CompanyPub: F2House
Windows · Mac · Linux
Modify the world around you with pseudocode as you journey through blended realities and discover why Frank became a game developer in the first place.
Why similar: Story Rich 54.3%, Adventure 45.7%
- #54 Project Silverfish
61% matchVery Positive94% of 2,854 reviews2025
Dev: Siris Pendrake
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.
Why similar: Survival Horror 21.4%, Shooter 18.2%, Horror 14.7%, Action-Adventure 13.4%, Exploration 12.8%