60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Atmospheric, Surreal, Singleplayer, Adventure.
Navigate broken memories in a powerless fantasy fueled equally by nightmares and confessional poetry. A narrative experiment in adapting dreams and poems to the medium of video games.
Explore a familiar world that can never be fully understood.
Why similar: Experimental 20.1% ★, Narrative 18% ★, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Emotional 12.5%, Psychological 10%
A free first-person horror game about dream puzzles - unsettling, surreal and built on strange logic.
Why similar: Experimental 19.6% ★, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Surreal 14%, Emotional 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11%
Before the Backrooms ... before analog horror ... there were the tapes
Why similar: Experimental 25.3% ★, Surreal 17.8%, Walking Simulator 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11%, Dark 6.9%
Henry is an elderly man with regrets. Over the course of his life, he has killed three times. He is about to kill again. Survive a home invasion as you recount his life through a series of dreamy vignettes featuring a thief, a friend, a lover, and mysterious bartender.
Why similar: Experimental 22.4% ★, Surreal 15.9%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Psychological 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
You find yourself stranded in a forest after your car breaks down. A short psychological horror game.
Why similar: Experimental 25.5% ★, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Surreal 13.7%, Psychological 12.2%, Dynamic Narration 10.6% ★
Image is a first-person horror game. Explore haunted, ever-changing environments in an atmospheric, confused world and enjoy a truly terrifying gaming experience.
Why similar: Experimental 29.6% ★, Dynamic Narration 22% ★, Psychological 13.1%, Walking Simulator 8.5%, Psychological Horror 8%
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 22.2% ★, Walking Simulator 16.5%, Surreal 15.1%, Psychological 12.7%, Emotional 10.2%
The Space Between is a surreal short narrative experience in three acts about the walls we build for us.
Why similar: Experimental 27.5% ★, Walking Simulator 17.6%, Surreal 15.6%, Emotional 11%, Psychological 8.6%
Forever Someday is a short narrative experience about dealing with depression and the end of a relationship, with a surreal and dream-like aesthetic.
Why similar: Experimental 29.3% ★, Narrative 23.6% ★, Surreal 19.7%, Emotional 10.5%, Psychological 9.8%
An atmospheric, surreal story-driven adventure. Explore strange rooms, houses, and streets, meet unusual characters, and solve puzzles. Observe, listen, and piece together the story from fragments, because the world of GOLUBI won’t explain anything
Why similar: Experimental 22.3% ★, Narrative 17.9% ★, Surreal 14.9%, Psychological 12.5%, Walking Simulator 12.3%
A game about boredom and self-pity. It's about myself mostly. You walk around and press the 'interact' button. Sorry for making this.
Why similar: Experimental 30.5% ★, Walking Simulator 19.3%, Surreal 18.5%, Emotional 18.2%, Dark 9.1%
Enter an isolated asylum. Explore shifting rooms, uncover tapes and letters, and piece together a psychological story of memory, absence, and a truth that refuses to stay buried.
Why similar: Narrative 23.8% ★, Surreal 18.9%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Emotional 14.5%, Atmospheric 7.6%
Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing together evocative memories, and following in the footsteps of a young girl’s journey through adolescence.
Why similar: Narrative 20.5% ★, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Soundtrack 17% ★, Emotional 14.2%, Psychological 9.1%
You're playing a platformer on an old CRT TV. At first, it's just a game. Then what happens on-screen no longer stays on-screen. You can't get up. You can't leave the room. All you can do is keep playing.
Why similar: Experimental 25% ★, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Surreal 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Psychological 8.9%
Myosotis is a narrative-driven game following Frank Miller, an elderly man living alone after his wife’s passing. As days blur and nights grow darker, familiar places change, memories twist, and reality itself begins to slip away through conversation and story-driven moments.
Why similar: Narrative 25.1% ★, Walking Simulator 22.6%, Surreal 13.5%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Emotional 6.7%
To My Best Friend is a first-person exploratory narrative experience delivering an emotional story. Made to be experienced in one sitting, it offers something you can return to, revisit, and think on whenever you feel like you need to remember the good times life has to offer.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.2% ★, Experimental 21.3% ★, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Emotional 12%, Surreal 11.8%
A narrative game about grief, memory, and perception. Explore a shifting home that reshapes itself around emotion. What you’re willing to face will determine what you find, or what stays hidden.
Why similar: Narrative 32.3% ★, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Psychological 14.8%, Surreal 12.7%, Emotional 10.7%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Experimental 23.7% ★, Surreal 15.1%, Emotional 12.7%, Psychological 11.7%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
The Appraiser is a short, first person narrative game. As an art appraiser you will sell the art collection of a dying man. Each painting is by 4 famed artist. They have a story to tell you, but only if you choose to listen.
Why similar: Experimental 23.5% ★, Narrative 20.6% ★, Walking Simulator 17.7%, Surreal 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
Mother Seed is a fixed-camera point and click psychological horror game about identity collapse, loss of bodily autonomy, and horrified fascination. A woman inhabits a universe where nothing makes sense and something beyond her understanding keeps driving her forward.
Why similar: Experimental 37.5% ★, Surreal 19.3%, Narrative 17.4% ★, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Dark 6.3%
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 26% ★, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Surreal 15.4%, Soundtrack 13.1% ★, Psychological 11.5%
One wish to shape a game forever. Wait 2 hours in darkness, make your request, and watch it become real for those who comes after.
Why similar: Experimental 35.3% ★, Walking Simulator 18.7%, Dynamic Narration 17.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Psychological 10.7%
Inner Ashes is a first person, narrative, puzzle adventure, where the player puts himself in Henry's shoes, a forest guard diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. He has to travel through his mind to discover why his only daughter Enid disappeared from his life.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.5%, Soundtrack 18.6% ★, Surreal 15.2%, Emotional 14.8%, Psychological 11.2%
Take your place at the terminal. Follow the procedures, process the records, and read messages never meant for you. NOEMA is a quiet, unsettling narrative experience about work, obedience, human connection, and what routine teaches us not to see.
Why similar: Experimental 34.1% ★, Narrative 20.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Surreal 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
Why similar: Narrative 35.3% ★, Emotional 21.9%, Walking Simulator 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%, Psychological 7.9%
The Lies We Tell Ourselves is an episodic first person psychological action-adventure game with introspective/horror elements and a focus on subtle storytelling and atmosphere. Explore, solve puzzles, survive and uncover truths buried deep within a castle of lies.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.9%, Narrative 17.4% ★, Surreal 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Psychological 11.4%
The art you choose is a confession. Enter a gallery that feels slightly off, where every painting you admire, and every prompt you answer, shapes the world around you. A short psychological experience where the system learns your patterns and delivers a final judgement.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.7%, Surreal 16.6%, Experimental 12.1% ★, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Emotional 9.8%
Would you forgive yourself if you killed someone you love? Enter the traumatic memories of The Flower, experience death as the killer and the killed, and submerge yourself in a dark, interactive adventure of emotions, suffering, and regret - looking for a way to forget.
Why similar: Soundtrack 21.3% ★, Walking Simulator 14.1%, Surreal 14%, Psychological 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
Why similar: Experimental 20.7% ★, Narrative 17.7% ★, Walking Simulator 14.3%, Surreal 14%, Psychological 12%
An atmospheric narrative puzzle-adventure set on a surreal Nordic island. Guide young Sam and his companion Kira through two shifting realities - switching between a world of terrifying shadows and a world of light to solve puzzles and reignite the broken lighthouse
Why similar: Narrative 29.1% ★, Surreal 17.6%, Emotional 14.7%, Psychological 13.7%, Dark 8.4%
May, Be Dead is a first-person surrealist adventure game about walking through endless hexagonal rooms of memory and repeatedly killing May, a mysterious figure you shared an intimate yet ambiguous relationship with.
Why similar: Experimental 28.9% ★, Surreal 19.2%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Psychological Horror 8.2%, Stylized 5.4%
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Why similar: Experimental 28.6% ★, Surreal 16.4%, Psychological 14.3%, Emotional 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
NOT YET is a first-person psychological horror experience where silence grows heavier the deeper you go, and hesitation becomes its own consequence.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.5%, Surreal 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Psychological 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
I have some memories of saying goodbye that I don't want to forget, so I turned them into 11 minigames and backed them up in this collection.
Why similar: Narrative 30.9% ★, Experimental 23.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Emotional 11.8%, Psychological 11.5%
A short, introspective walk through a moonlit park. Move at your own pace, choose emotional paths, and make room for whatever thoughts you bring with you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.3%, Narrative 23.6% ★, Emotional 19.4%, Surreal 9.6%, Atmospheric 8.1%
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: Walking Simulator 29.1%, Experimental 18.1% ★, Surreal 12.3%, Psychological 10.3%, Emotional 9.9%
A miniature frozen between the atmosphere of a small room and Castaneda with Lovecraft. The story of radical spiritual practices in the search for truth among panels and stacks.
Why similar: Experimental 33.4% ★, Walking Simulator 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Psychological 11.9%, Surreal 8.7%
A short and unconventional anthology exploring abandonment, depression, domestic abuse, and acceptance. These strange vignettes made with passion use unique mechanics to tell personal stories that linger. Perfect for players who seek sincere, bittersweet experiences.
Why similar: Narrative 26.1% ★, Experimental 25.5% ★, Emotional 16.9%, Psychological 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
Are sardines trustworthy? Are you? Do you want to be? How Fish is Made is a janky little jaunt through the world of surrealist storytelling. Now featuring a Katamari-like DLC!
Why similar: Narrative 25.6% ★, Surreal 19.9%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Psychological 14.5%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
Keep in Mind follows Jonas, a man haunted by alcoholism, depression, and grief. One night, he awakens to a shadowy mirror world where beasts lurk and stars don't shine. Lost and scared, Jonas must face the twisted beasts if he ever wishes to return home and learn the truth about his darkness.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 18.2% ★, Psychological 15%, Emotional 14.5%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
Pit of Despair is a psychological horror game set in a snowbound cabin, isolated in a remote forest. Trapped with no escape, something lurks—within the walls or your mind. A short, intense experience (30–45 min) inspired by P.T. Silent Hills and The Exit 8. Best played in the dark with headphones.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.5%, Narrative 24.3% ★, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Psychological 10.7%, Atmospheric 8.2%
A surreal dream exploration game, both beautiful and terrifying.
Why similar: Surreal 22.5%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Dark 11.4%
Time is the only thing we can't resist. Some people and things will never be found once they are lost. In the dark, a man was walking alone. The moment when you turn back, don't forget the place where came from!
Why similar: Narrative 28% ★, Walking Simulator 16.7%, Emotional 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Psychological 11%
A slow-burning first-person adventure where a mysterious narrator guides your choices through a dreamlike world of grief, symbols and secrets.
Why similar: Narrative 20% ★, Psychological 13.1%, Surreal 12.9%, Emotional 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
The Memories That Shape Us is a narrative video game that lasts about two hours. Find the Memory Capsules to uncover the story of a person’s life from childhood to adulthood, all the joys, all the struggles, and all the lessons. How much can one take before they’ve had enough?
Why similar: Experimental 21.2% ★, Emotional 17.8%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Psychological 14.1%, Surreal 11%
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
Why similar: Experimental 28.5% ★, Surreal 24.3%, Walking Simulator 10.1%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Retro 7.1%
When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.9% ★, Walking Simulator 23.5%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Psychological 8%, Emotional 6.6%
The Flood is a peaceful 5 minute narrative experience in which you pilot a little boat down a river. It's a gentle reminder that sometimes we should stop worrying about our destination and just enjoy the journey.
Why similar: Experimental 29.8% ★, Soundtrack 22.2% ★, Narrative 21.7% ★, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Atmospheric 5.8%
Survival horror game about a girl trapped in a car
Why similar: Narrative 18.6% ★, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Psychological 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Surreal 13.2%
Glass is a 3D, first-person psychological thriller that will lead you through an increasingly dark and volatile world in search of an enigmatic author and his mysterious, tragic past. What you uncover will change you forever.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 26.8% ★, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Psychological 15%, Surreal 14.7%, Emotional 6.5%
Jon’s dreams were filled with music and a love life he once had. Now they’ve curdled into nightmares, weaving between memories and unknown realms. Set in the '90s, this immersive first-person psychological walking simulator follows Jon as he realizes… something is stalking him.
Why similar: Narrative 21.8% ★, Walking Simulator 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Psychological 11.4%, Dark 10.7%
A dreamlike, half-remembered nowhere. Quietly wander through it, solve opaque puzzles, and meet strange figures as something beautiful unwinds.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.2%, Narrative 16.9% ★, Soundtrack 16.4% ★, Surreal 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.7%
Something is very wrong with your eyes. A routine eye exam pulls you into the house inside the machine. Beware. The figures in the image are closer than they appear.
Why similar: Narrative 18.4% ★, Surreal 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Psychological 12%, Walking Simulator 11.4%
LAMINA BRUISE is a narrative-driven, first-person adventure set in a surreal sci-fi world. A tense yet meditative experience, paced by thoughtful puzzles.
Why similar: Experimental 39.3% ★, Surreal 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dark 9.3%, Atmospheric 3.9%
"Fire in the Dark" is a psychological meta-horror where the eerie game on the heroine’s computer and her room merge into one world, revealing each trauma through your actions.
Why similar: Narrative 17.6% ★, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Psychological 15.4%, Surreal 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
Explore a looping supermarket aisle in a first-person psychological horror walking simulator. Observe the environment to spot anomalies: turn back when something is wrong, otherwise move forward. Progress reveals a story of guilt and grief, as a man searches for his lost wife and son.
Why similar: Narrative 25.6% ★, Walking Simulator 22%, Surreal 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Emotional 11.9%
A first-person psychological horror game set in a childhood home. Explore, uncover four days of missing memory, and survive something that has been listening since you arrived.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.5%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Emotional 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Psychological 12.5%
A short first-person horror game where you wander through an eerie forest using the dials of a microwave.
Why similar: Surreal 21.9%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Psychological 12.1%, Dark 10%
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
Why similar: Experimental 26.6% ★, Narrative 23.8% ★, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Surreal 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Narrative 20.5% ★, Emotional 15.8%, Surreal 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.3%
