Games Like Superliminal

Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

Why similar: Psychological 16.7%, Surreal 16.4%, Puzzle Platformer 11.5%, Physics 10.3%, Dark Humor 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its photograph-placement mechanic lets you reshape the world through viewpoint and visual perspective, making it the closest modern counterpart to Superliminal's core trick.

Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.

Why similar: Surreal 30.2%, Puzzle 28.4%, First-Person 14.5%, Exploration 6.7%, Psychedelic 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person maze constantly violates spatial logic with impossible corridors, recursive rooms, and puzzles built around changing assumptions.

Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.

Why similar: Surreal 23.8%, Psychedelic 19.8%, Puzzle 14.3%, Puzzle Platformer 11.8%, First-Person 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines Escher-like architecture and gravity manipulation into serene, disorienting first-person puzzles about impossible space.

Hyperbolica is a whimsical Non-Euclidean adventure with mind-bending worlds full of games, puzzles, mazes, and secrets! Immerse yourself in reality-warping geometries where lines can never be parallel, horizons are curved, and space grows exponentially.

Why similar: Surreal 20.1%, Psychedelic 16.3%, Psychological 15.4%, Physics 9.7%, Puzzle 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Exploring a non-Euclidean world gives every hallway and landmark an uncanny, dreamlike sense of distorted geometry.

Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.

Why similar: Puzzle 20%, First-Person 15.6%, Physics 15.2%, Puzzle Platformer 13.8%, Funny 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Manipulating time-reversed objects creates inventive first-person environmental puzzles with a polished story-driven structure.

Maquette is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.7%, Puzzle Platformer 21.3%, First-Person 19.5%, Adventure 9.2%, Exploration 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Nested miniature worlds make object scale and spatial perspective into the basis for its elegant environmental puzzles.

The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.2%, Puzzle Platformer 25.4%, First-Person 19.6%, Story Rich 15.2%, Exploration 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its expansive puzzle environments and philosophical narrative deliver cerebral first-person problem-solving on a grander scale.

A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.

Why similar: Puzzle 38.4%, First-Person 26.4%, Adventure 19.1%, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its puzzles make light and shadow physically dangerous, creating a compact first-person experience with a similarly controlled surreal-test-chamber feel.

The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

Why similar: Puzzle 49.9%, First-Person 21.5%, Story Rich 14.1%, Exploration 6.6%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers philosophical first-person puzzle spaces built around lasers, blockers, perspective-aware navigation, and existential mystery.

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Why similar: Puzzle 43.8%, First-Person 18.8%, Exploration 12.7%, Surreal 9.6%, Colorful 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its isolated island is filled with difficult visual-language puzzles and quiet moments of revelation that reward close observation.

The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Why similar: Dark Humor 19%, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, Puzzle 15.9%, Physics 13.4%, First-Person 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person test chambers pair satisfying physics-based spatial puzzles with witty storytelling and a deliberately artificial environment.

Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.

Why similar: Puzzle 46.8%, First-Person 21.9%, Adventure 20%, Puzzle Platformer 7.7%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Reconfiguring colored blocks inside sterile, shifting sci-fi rooms provides focused first-person spatial puzzle design.

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: First-Person 21%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Funny 14.9%, Dark Humor 13%, Story Rich 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: While lighter on puzzles, its looping office reality, unreliable narration, and branching absurdity strongly match Superliminal's dreamlike tone.

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: Surreal 25%, Puzzle 16.9%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, First-Person 13.2%, Stylized 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Switching between light and dark versions of each environment creates striking perspective-based routes through abstract puzzle spaces.

Moncage is a unique puzzle adventure game where you explore a fascinating world trapped inside a mysterious cube. With each face displaying a unique scene, you’ll have to leverage the illusions and discover the hidden links to solve the puzzle.

Why similar: Puzzle 31.1%, Surreal 27.1%, Puzzle Platformer 11.3%, First-Person 8.3%, Adventure 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Rotating a mysterious cube to align objects across its different faces captures the satisfying visual-reframing appeal of Superliminal.

Check-in to The Spectrum Retreat for a stay you won’t forget. Manipulate your way to the truth in this captivating narrative-driven puzzler.

Why similar: Puzzle 42.6%, First-Person 31.3%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Adventure 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This story-rich escape puzzler uses color swapping and a mysterious hotel setting to create an uncanny, controlled reality.

Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.2%, Puzzle 29.1%, Physics 16.3%, First-Person 15.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Changing the physical properties of a mansion's rooms creates playful first-person puzzles around mass, gravity, and scale.

Bend and twist reality in A Fisherman's Tale, the mind-bending VR puzzle adventure game in which being turned upside down and inside out is not merely a play on words.

Why similar: Surreal 22%, Psychological 20.7%, Physics 16.5%, Puzzle 13.8%, Dark Humor 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: This VR puzzle adventure uses recursive scale and multiple versions of the player to create especially Superliminal-like spatial absurdity.

Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22%, Physics 20%, Puzzle 16.3%, First-Person 14.3%, Exploration 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This colorful first-person adventure mixes physics puzzles, exploration, secret-filled environments, and a miniature-world sense of scale.

Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, Physics 19.3%, Puzzle 17%, First-Person 14.3%, Story Rich 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Magnetism and gravity manipulation drive its first-person scientific puzzles, with an emphasis on carefully reading physical space.

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

Why similar: Surreal 17.5%, Psychological 15.9%, Puzzle 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13%, First-Person 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Spotting tiny anomalies in an endlessly repeating underground passage offers a concise dose of liminal-space unease and perceptual attention.

I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?

Why similar: Surreal 28.8%, Puzzle Platformer 25.4%, Puzzle 22.5%, Minimalist 12.3%, Colorful 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It turns connected public signs into a shifting navigable world, delivering clever spatial puzzles from an unusual visual angle.

The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

Why similar: Puzzle 46.1%, First-Person 27.7%, Story Rich 9.5%, Adventure 6.4%, Psychological Horror 6%

Why You'll Like It: Its clean first-person puzzle chambers and AI-focused narrative suit players who enjoy methodical environmental problem-solving.

Gravitas is a short first-person puzzle platforming game that transports you to the Gallery of Refined Gravity. Manipulate gravity and the gallery itself to prove yourself a pupil worthy of the Curator’s masterwork.

Why similar: Puzzle 31.5%, Puzzle Platformer 27.6%, First-Person 17.8%, Funny 8.9%, Dark Humor 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Gravity-gun puzzles, comic narration, and a bizarre research facility make this a compact and humorous portal-like alternative.

Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.

Why similar: Puzzle 56.8%, Surreal 10.3%, Stylized 9.8%, Story Rich 9.1%, Adventure 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its hand-drawn panels can be layered, zoomed, and aligned to create deceptively intricate visual perspective puzzles.

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Why similar: Surreal 25.7%, Psychological 24.5%, Story Rich 18.6%, First-Person 17%, Psychological Horror 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This introspective first-person collection of unfinished worlds uses surreal spaces to tell a psychological story about authorship and interpretation.

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Puzzle 51.9%, Puzzle Platformer 23.1%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Adventure 4.4%, Story Rich 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its cloning mechanic and eerie abandoned-station setting make for thoughtful environmental puzzles with an unsettling psychological mood.

Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.

Why similar: Thriller 24.3%, Surreal 24.3%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, First-Person 11%, Story Rich 7.5%

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

Why similar: Puzzle 56.4%, Exploration 17.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Adventure 5.5%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Rotating a seemingly 2D world to reveal hidden 3D paths makes perspective a constant source of discovery.

Imagine an escape room set in a deranged mind. Experience a first-person exploration game in a chilling new dimension. Shift between three perspectives of a family and unravel the mystery hiding in this mind-bending psychological thriller.

Why similar: Psychological 40.7%, Psychological Horror 30.9%, Horror 17%, Adventure 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its fragmented domestic spaces and psychological-horror story use environmental shifts to make reality feel unstable and deeply personal.

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: Surreal 18.9%, Psychedelic 16.4%, Psychological 16.4%, Dark Humor 10.3%, Psychological Horror 7.9%

In Frame of Mind, you are placed in a world where logic is escaping you. Each area of the game defies reason, requiring you to think outside the box in order to solve the illogical and escape madness.

Why similar: Surreal 17.6%, Psychedelic 13.8%, Psychological 13.1%, Puzzle Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle 8.8%

Traverse mirrors as if they were natural extensions of space to solve puzzles and uncover secrets. Reshape your perspective to perform gravity-shifting acrobatics as you jungle-gym through a sprawling environment. You'll never look in a mirror the same way again.

Why similar: Surreal 27.2%, Puzzle Platformer 19.4%, Puzzle 15.8%, First-Person 13.4%, Minimalist 8.6%

NOX: Chapter 1 is a first-person puzzle game, where the player has to make use of gravity changes, gravity shifts and portals to explore the dreams and nightmares of a child. All this, in a world inspired by the work of Escher.

Why similar: Surreal 21%, Puzzle 14.4%, Psychological 14.1%, First-Person 11.2%, Psychological Horror 9.6%

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: Surreal 29.3%, First-Person 14.6%, Exploration 13.6%, Puzzle 12%, Puzzle Platformer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its vast monochrome structures and cryptic impossible spaces evoke the lonely, architectural dream quality of Superliminal.

In Sound Mind is an imaginative first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music by The Living Tombstone. Journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape—your own mind.

Why similar: Psychedelic 17.8%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Puzzle 16.2%, Story Rich 11%, Horror 10.8%

Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.

Why similar: Puzzle 28.1%, Minimalist 15.2%, First-Person 14.3%, Adventure 12%, Exploration 10.7%

Experience backrooms 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: Surreal 32.5%, Psychological Horror 17%, First-Person 14.4%, Minimalist 12%, Exploration 9.2%

The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

Why similar: Psychological 33.1%, First-Person 17.1%, Surreal 12.9%, Funny 11.8%, Exploration 6.2%

Experience Will's complicated story, find a way out of the nightmare of liminal spaces by solving challenging puzzles and avoiding dangerous entities — all this awaits you in "Shifting To The Backrooms".

Why similar: Surreal 19.7%, Puzzle 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14%, First-Person 12.2%, Story Rich 9.4%

Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.7%, Physics 19.4%, Puzzle Platformer 18.1%, First-Person 15.3%, Minimalist 10%

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 20.7%, Surreal 20.4%, Cinematic 11.1%, Puzzle 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.8%

A Surreal Puzzle Shooter Adventure Fueled By Madness!

Why similar: Surreal 21.3%, Psychological 17.8%, Psychedelic 17.8%, Puzzle 11.9%, First-Person 9.6%

Will you be able to break the vicious circle? Can you regain control? Experience the surreal adventure filled with many puzzles and psychedelic visions.

Why similar: Surreal 30.5%, Psychedelic 26.4%, Puzzle 16.8%, First-Person 8%, Story Rich 6.1%

Step into an uncanny building trapped in endless loops. Use the elevator, uncover unsettling anomalies, and evade the Entity lurking behind you. Liminal Exit is an immersive game inspired by liminal spaces and Exit 8. Explore 3 liminal space floors and track anomalies to escape, but watch your back!

Why similar: Surreal 20%, Psychological 17.9%, Puzzle 15.6%, Dark Humor 14.4%, Psychological Horror 11.5%

A fever-dream-like puzzle horror game. Descend to the depths of a sleeping curse, survive every floor and find your way out of the never ending nightmare.

Why similar: Surreal 24%, Psychedelic 18.3%, Puzzle 15.9%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, First-Person 11%

Cognition Method is a story-driven, first-person puzzle game inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris. Discover the innovative mechanics of altering gravity and dive into the surreal setting. Find your way within a mysterious artifact and unveil a non-ordinary story.

Why similar: Surreal 17.3%, Psychedelic 14.5%, Psychological 12.6%, Puzzle 10.5%, First-Person 8.8%

Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.

Why similar: Puzzle 21.2%, Surreal 17.8%, First-Person 15.8%, Minimalist 12%, Exploration 7.6%

Suicide Guy Deluxe Plus is the surreal puzzle game set in the dreams of its protagonist. Will you be able to save the thing you love most and overcome the neverending whirlwind of nightmares? Now in a new shiny edition.

Why similar: Surreal 21.4%, Physics 15.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.2%, Dark Humor 14.6%, First-Person 10.2%

Ascend through the twisted levels of the Backrooms using physics-based object manipulation to overcome obstacles, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover unsettling secrets. Play solo or team up in online co-op with up to 4 players as you climb higher, think smarter, and survive the unknown.

Why similar: Psychological 22.5%, Puzzle 20.3%, Puzzle Platformer 20.1%, First-Person 13.1%, Funny 9.8%

You are trapped in an endless stairway with no end in sight. Solve twisted puzzles and maybe you will escape your fate.

Why similar: Psychological 23.9%, Surreal 19.8%, Physics 13.3%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, First-Person 11.5%

Find a way through the towers and dungeons of TRI by solving puzzles, climbing impossible ascents and reflecting light-rays. The mystical TRI will let you create your own paths in this strange world – just try not to lose your mind when you're falling upside down!

Why similar: Surreal 26%, Puzzle 16.9%, Physics 13.4%, First-Person 11.9%, Minimalist 9.3%

A silly little physics-based game about moving on... or is it? Be neat, be careful, or be a chaos goblin. The choice is yours. But be warned, not all is as it seems in this quiet little house.

Why similar: Surreal 16.2%, Thriller 13.5%, Physics 9.7%, Puzzle Platformer 9.4%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

Walk on walls. Manipulate gravity. Discover secrets. In this first-person puzzle game, delve deep into an ancient labyrinth of intricate conundrums, seeking an imprisoned god at the centre.

Why similar: Surreal 23%, Physics 16.7%, Puzzle Platformer 16.3%, Puzzle 14.6%, First-Person 12.3%

SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.

Why similar: First-Person 37.7%, Puzzle 29.3%, Minimalist 22.1%, Singleplayer 8.6%, Adventure 1.3%

Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Why similar: Puzzle 75.5%, Surreal 8.2%, Minimalist 7.7%, Singleplayer 6.5%, Funny 2.1%

There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!

Why similar: Puzzle 39.3%, Funny 25.4%, Story Rich 19.5%, Adventure 10.3%, Singleplayer 5.4%

"INHUMAN" is an independent horror game. The story takes place in the conspiracy of an ancient clan, and the protagonist is in a psychedelic state and can't even distinguish herself. With further exploration and confrontation with all kinds of ghosts, the puzzle will be solved step by step...

Why similar: Thriller 17.7%, Psychedelic 17.1%, Psychological 11.2%, Puzzle 10%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

You are in a room without windows or doors. The TV dimly illuminates the room. What is this, a box? How to open it? After solving the riddle, you find the TV remote control. Click... a door appeared. You step into the darkness and hear laughter... turn around and find out what's behind the screen.

Why similar: Psychological 18.7%, Psychedelic 18.4%, Thriller 15%, Puzzle 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.4%

Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.

Why similar: Psychological 21%, Thriller 19%, Puzzle Platformer 12.3%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Cinematic 8.3%