
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Atmospheric, Surreal, 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.

Mayfly
A story-rich psychological horror set aboard an ever-changing narrowboat. Experience Caroline Miller's descent into an increasingly twisted reality as she searches for her missing husband

Exit Dream
A free first-person horror game about dream puzzles - unsettling, surreal and built on strange logic.
A story-rich psychological horror set aboard an ever-changing narrowboat. Experience Caroline Miller's descent into an increasingly twisted reality as she searches for her missing husband
Why similar: Narrative 20.7% ★, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Psychological 12.2%, Surreal 11.6%, Emotional 11.5%
A free first-person horror game about dream puzzles - unsettling, surreal and built on strange logic.
Why similar: Experimental 19.1%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Surreal 14.1%, Emotional 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11%
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 21.8%, Surreal 16%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Psychological 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.5%
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 28.9%, Dynamic Narration 22.3% ★, Psychological 13.4%, Walking Simulator 8.5%, Psychological Horror 8.1%
You find yourself stranded in a forest after your car breaks down. A short psychological horror game.
Why similar: Experimental 24.9%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Surreal 13.7%, Psychological 12.4%, Dynamic Narration 10.8% ★
The Space Between is a surreal short narrative experience in three acts about the walls we build for us.
Why similar: Experimental 26.9%, Walking Simulator 17.6%, Surreal 15.7%, Emotional 11.1%, Psychological 8.8%
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 28.6%, Narrative 24% ★, Surreal 19.7%, Emotional 10.6%, Psychological 10%
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 29.8%, Walking Simulator 19.4%, Surreal 18.6%, Emotional 18.4%, Dark 9.3%
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 20.8% ★, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Soundtrack 16.6% ★, Emotional 14.3%, Psychological 9.2%
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 25.3% ★, Walking Simulator 22.3%, Surreal 13.4%, 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 22.5% ★, Experimental 20.7%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Emotional 12.1%, Surreal 11.8%
An atmosphere-driven walking simulator where you explore familiar yet unsettling spaces, interact with fragmented conversations, and influence partial changes in the world through small actions, observation, and quiet choices that shape how the experience unfolds.
Why similar: Narrative 21.4% ★, Walking Simulator 19.5%, Emotional 14.3%, Surreal 13.7%, Psychological 10.7%
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 32.5% ★, Walking Simulator 18.2%, Psychological 14.9%, Surreal 12.6%, 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 23.1%, Surreal 15.1%, Emotional 12.8%, Psychological 11.9%, 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 22.9%, Narrative 21% ★, Walking Simulator 17.6%, Surreal 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
Mother Seed is an experimental point and click horror game about a woman moving through a series of increasingly unsettling encounters. Explore surreal environments, interact with disturbed characters, and uncover what’s expected of you.
Why similar: Experimental 36.7%, Surreal 19.4%, Narrative 17.7% ★, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Dark 6.4%
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 18.3% ★, Surreal 15.2%, Emotional 14.8%, Psychological 11.4%
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 34.5%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Dynamic Narration 17.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Psychological 10.9%
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 25.4%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Surreal 15.5%, Soundtrack 12.9% ★, Psychological 11.8%
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 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%, Surreal 7.8%
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 17.7%, Narrative 17.6% ★, Surreal 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Psychological 11.5%
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 22.6%, Surreal 16.6%, Experimental 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Emotional 9.8%
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 20.1%, Narrative 18% ★, Walking Simulator 14.3%, Surreal 14%, Psychological 12.2%
A quiet first-person night walk through a moonlit park, where your thoughts drift, settle, and slowly find clarity. Navigate the branching paths of your own mind with no goals, no pressure — just choices, you, and the dark.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.3%, Narrative 24.2% ★, Emotional 19.6%, Surreal 9.6%, Atmospheric 8.2%
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Why similar: Experimental 27.9%, Surreal 16.4%, Psychological 14.6%, Emotional 14%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
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 28.9%, Experimental 17.9%, Surreal 12.3%, Psychological 10.4%, Emotional 9.9%
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 17.3%, Surreal 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Psychological 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
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 20.8% ★, Walking Simulator 14.1%, Surreal 14%, Psychological 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
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 31.4% ★, Experimental 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Emotional 11.8%, Psychological 11.7%
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 18.3% ★, Psychological 15.1%, Emotional 14.5%, Walking Simulator 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
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 32.6%, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Psychological 12.1%, Surreal 8.7%
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 25.8% ★, Surreal 19.8%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Psychological 14.6%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
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 26.5% ★, Experimental 24.8%, Emotional 17%, Psychological 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
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 26.2%, Narrative 24.5% ★, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Psychological 10.8%, Atmospheric 8.3%
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 28.2% ★, Emotional 16.5%, Walking Simulator 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Psychological 11.1%
A surreal dream exploration game, both beautiful and terrifying.
Why similar: Surreal 22.4%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Dark 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
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 25% ★, Walking Simulator 23.3%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Psychological 8.1%, Emotional 6.6%
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 20.6%, Emotional 17.9%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Psychological 14.3%, Surreal 11%
Survival horror game about a girl trapped in a car
Why similar: Narrative 18.7% ★, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Psychological 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Surreal 13.1%
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 26.9% ★, Walking Simulator 18.1%, Psychological 15.1%, Surreal 14.6%, Emotional 6.4%
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 27.9%, Surreal 24.6%, Walking Simulator 9.9%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Retro 7%
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 21.9% ★, Walking Simulator 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Psychological 11.5%, Dark 10.7%
"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 17.7% ★, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Psychological 15.6%, Surreal 14.2%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
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 20.7% ★, Emotional 15.8%, Surreal 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Psychological 11.3%
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 25.8% ★, Walking Simulator 21.8%, Surreal 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Emotional 11.9%
A short first-person horror game where you wander through an eerie forest using the dials of a microwave.
Why similar: Surreal 21.8%, Walking Simulator 13.2%, Psychological 12.4%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, 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 25.9%, Narrative 24.3% ★, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Surreal 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10%
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 29.3%, Narrative 22.3% ★, Soundtrack 21.8% ★, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Atmospheric 6%
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 22.3%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Emotional 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Psychological 12.6%
A dreamlike, half-remembered nowhere. Quietly wander through it, solve opaque puzzles, meet strange figures, and uncover the subtle threads of melancholy from which this place was born.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.2%, Narrative 17.2% ★, Soundtrack 16% ★, Surreal 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.8%
When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward. Immerse yourself in the atmospheric and moving adventure of white crow Ankou — one of pain, loneliness, and salvation that no one asked for.
Why similar: Narrative 24.2% ★, Surreal 15.1%, Psychological 14.3%, Emotional 12.6%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Why similar: Narrative 16.8% ★, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Psychological 14.5%, Surreal 13.7%
A slow, atmospheric horror experience set aboard an abandoned orbital station - the last echo of humanity. Explore cold corridors, flickering terminals, and forgotten logs of a failed salvation program. No monsters. No jumpscares. Only silence, loneliness, and the weight of extinction.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.3%, Narrative 15.3% ★, Surreal 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Emotional 9.9%
Under the cloud, pressure is crushing – only machines survive in the open. LAMINA BRUISE is a narrative-driven first-person adventure. Solve thoughtful puzzles and overcome revealing obstacles in a tense, hostile environment.
Why similar: Experimental 38.5%, Surreal 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Dark 9.5%, Atmospheric 4%
Connor, a single father, visits a memory-restoration clinic in order to relive the days he had with his estranged son Bry. Experience what’s left of his past as he gets to relive his cherished memories and routine joys, while keeping away from the disturbing truth lurking beneath the surface.
Why similar: Emotional 21%, Psychological 19.8%, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Dynamic Narration 11.6% ★
Your memories are fracturing. Explore an evocative story of love and loss through shifting realities. Solve puzzles to hold on to the moments that define you before they vanish forever.
Why similar: Narrative 22.5% ★, Walking Simulator 21%, Emotional 19.6%, Psychological 17.5%, Surreal 10.1%
A "Blind" simulator that lets you experience a new perspective and immersive sensory journey. Step into a world of darkness using your guide cane.
Why similar: Experimental 27.9%, Walking Simulator 24.8%, Emotional 19.9%, Psychological 17.6%, Atmospheric 7.9%
Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title). Not only that, you'll get to talk with the Lead Developer of the project, Matthew Stanton, who will give insight on his team's creative process.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 32.7% ★, Experimental 24.5%, Walking Simulator 20.2%, Stylized 6.4%, Psychological Horror 5.6%
[Data Expunged], Eastern Bloc, September ██th, 19██A narrative discovery walking game. Slow paced and might get scary at times. (Cozy horror, if you will...) Walk through a soviet hotel. Knock at every door. Hold staring contests with paintings. But don't ever look into a mirror for too long...
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.2%, Narrative 15.7% ★, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Dark 10.6%
Hollow Floor is a psychological horror walking simulator set in a looping, scorched apartment. Stalked by a restless corpse, you must unravel the truth before you're consumed by it.
Why similar: Surreal 25.2%, Walking Simulator 24.4%, Psychological Horror 13%, Psychological 12.1%, Dark 7.7%