- #1 Knock Harder: Useless
97% matchVery Positive94% of 382 reviews2020
Dev: Snail-Ninja StudioPub: Snail-Ninja Studio
Windows
The only way to wake up is to die. The player must decide for himself whether he is inside a dream or is in reality.
Why similar: Casual 51.9%, Adventure 25.6%, Indie 22.5%
- #2 Have a Nice Dream
96% matchVery Positive93% of 4,858 reviews2021
Dev: 榭季生
Windows
A story about dreams. Explore a weird house and find the truth. A short game with mild puzzles and some psychological horror elements.
Why similar: Adventure 67.1%, Indie 32.9%
- #3 FALLSTRUKTUR
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,083 reviews2025
Dev: Fynn LevyPub: Stuffed Wombat
Windows · Mac · Linux
It takes a while to go back to sleep, but inevitably, you return. To dream of the Fallstruktur.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #4 DreamDasher
95% matchVery Positive86% of 121 reviews2020
Dev: C3BGames
Windows · Mac
The Dreamworld has been infected! It is up to you to explore the Dreamworld as the DreamDasher, discover its secrets, and defeat the Nightmare.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #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: Adventure 100%
- #6 Cranium Conundrum
96% matchMixed42% of 86 reviews2016
Dev: Falling Star GamesPub: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cranium Conundrum is a physics-based puzzle platformer taking place in the dream worlds that you create!
Why similar: Casual 58.6%, Adventure 22.6%, Indie 18.8%
- #7 I HAVE A DREAM
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 64 reviews2023
Dev: LKHC
Windows
I HAVE A DREAM is a 3D puzzle line game. You wake up in a place you've never seen before. Adapt to the transformation of various points of view and get out of here!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #8 Dreaming Sarah
92% matchVery Positive91% of 2,855 reviews2015
Dev: Asteristic Game Studio
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Dreaming Sarah is an adventure platformer where you play as Sarah, a girl who is in a coma. Explore the world around her and help her wake up!
Why similar: Casual 72.8%, Adventure 27.2%
- #9 Goodnight, Lily
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 104 reviews2020
Dev: Something EdgyPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Escape the dark by navigating through nightmares made reality. Follow the light and find your way home as you are hounded by your worst fears.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #10 Awakening: The Dreamless Castle
91% matchVery Positive92% of 51 reviews2019
Dev: Boomzap EntertainmentPub: BFG Entertainment
Windows
After Awakening in a mysterious castle it’s up to you to collect clues and items needed to solve perplexing puzzles and escape!
Why similar: Casual 70.3%, Adventure 29.7%
- #11 The Dreamlord
90% matchMixed44% of 216 reviews2016
Dev: mesettsPub: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Collect Dreamlord powers, Mind Fragments and lost memories. Jump from platform to platform in order to reach the end portal in time and escape. The Dreamlord has given you jump pads, teleports, elevators, anti-gravity devices and lots of platforms to jump on and get to the end. Prove to him you are worthy of waking up.
Why similar: Adventure 47.6%, Casual 39.2%, Indie 13.2%
- #12 Wake Up
89% matchVery Positive81% of 98 reviews2016
Dev: Black Cell OG
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Experience a shattered and surreal dream filled with fascinating riddles, where your only guide is an elusive butterfly. Can you make the journey and wake up?
Why similar: Adventure 50.5%, Indie 49.5%
- #13 Yume Nikki
87% matchVery Positive94% of 9,908 reviews2018
Dev: kikiyamaPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 72.0 hrs≥1hr: 46%
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Why similar: Casual 48.2%, Indie 28.6%, Adventure 23.2%
- #14 Just A Dream
89% matchVery Positive82% of 79 reviews2017
Dev: The Hyper Carries!
Windows
Just a Dream is a fast paced top down action game. You enter a world filled with your worst nightmares and must escape. As you fight across your dream from level to level, you encounter the very things that you dread every night.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #15 StrangeDream
86% matchVery Positive82% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: 草地w
Windows
You are trapped in a strange dream from which there is no waking. It is stitched from Chinese nostalgia, childhood echoes, and liminal spaces—where sense and nonsense blend freely. All you can do is keep exploring, until you must choose: return to restless reality, or stay in the dream forever?
Why similar: Casual 58.4%, Indie 21.1%, Adventure 20.6%
- #16 DREAMO - Puzzle Adventure
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 62 reviews2020
Dev: Hypnotic AntsPub: Carbon Studio
Windows
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: Casual 63.9%, Adventure 26.8%, Indie 9.3%
- #17 Awkward Dimensions Redux
86% matchVery Positive80% of 2,955 reviews2016
Dev: StevenHarmonGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 37%
They may be awkward dimensions, but they're my dreams...
Why similar: Adventure 59.1%, Indie 40.9%
- #18 Afterdream
84% matchVery Positive93% of 339 reviews2023
Dev: Jesse MakkonenPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #19 Try To Fall Asleep
85% matchVery Positive90% of 193 reviews2019
Dev: AmberDrop
Windows
John Herrin survived a horrible accident, damaging his brain and memory. Through falling asleep, he can rediscover his unfortunate past in his dreams, but due to his brain damage he'll start to see visions and hallucinations, and falling asleep won't be as easy as it seems at first...
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #20 Escape Lala - Retro Point and Click Adventure
84% matchVery Positive99% of 337 reviews2019
Dev: DuckbearLab
Windows · Mac
You wake up inside a magical cave, can you escape? A nostalgic adventure game <3
Why similar: Adventure 57.8%, Indie 42.2%
- #21 Awakening Sarah
82% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Asteristic Game Studio
Windows · Linux
Awakening Sarah is a 2D platformer with emphasis on exploration. Unravel the dreams and realities of Sarah, a girl who's recovering from a coma, while helping her understand the world around her and herself.
Why similar: Casual 85.9%, Adventure 14.1%
- #22 Balthazar's Dream
83% matchVery Positive88% of 114 reviews2017
Dev: Psilocybe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Visit a wonderfully peculiar dog's dream in a heroic attempt to save your owner in this beautiful pixel art puzzle platformer.
Why similar: Casual 34.2%, Indie 34%, Adventure 31.9%
- #23 My Sticker Book
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,368 reviews2022
Dev: ElementSu
Windows
"I can't sleep." A cute and possibly just a little bit scary puzzle platformer game. Move stickers to the right positions in order to get rid of the monsters and complete the sticker book.
Why similar: Casual 62.8%, Adventure 31.6%, Indie 5.6%
- #24 Night Reverie: Prologue
81% 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: Casual 67.7%, Adventure 19.8%, Indie 12.5%
- #25 Into The Unknown
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 100 reviews2016
Dev: FYRE Games
Windows · Mac
There's nothing scarier than waking up in the middle of the forest alone... or so it seems. Taking control of Rachel in this short, story driven, exploration game, you must find out where you are, why you're there, and most importantly, how to get out. What will you uncover when you delve into the unknown?
Why similar: Casual 55.8%, Adventure 24.6%, Indie 19.6%
- #26 Bad Dream: Coma
78% matchVery Positive91% of 2,195 reviews2017
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
Why similar: Casual 37.8%, Adventure 36.4%, Indie 25.8%
- #27 The Adventurer - Episode 1: Beginning of the End
79% matchMixed59% of 357 reviews2017
Dev: ZemunBREPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Imagine if every time you fall asleep, a new adventure awaits you.
Why similar: Casual 53.2%, Adventure 28.9%, Indie 17.9%
- #28 Lucid Dream
76% matchVery Positive92% of 1,017 reviews2020
Dev: sizrit
Windows
Lucid Dream is Point and Click horror game. The girl dream of being trapped in a weird place even though you fell asleep as always. Collect the item and Find clues! Escape and wake up from the dream!
Why similar: Adventure 56.1%, Indie 43.9%
- #29 Back to Bed
77% matchVery Positive81% of 2,905 reviews2014
Dev: Bedtime Digital Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Guide Bob the sleepwalker to the safety of his bed by taking control of his subconscious guardian, Subob. Explore a surreal and hand-painted dream world, avoid dangers and get Bob safely back to bed.
Why similar: Casual 72.4%, Indie 27.6%
- #30 Sleeping Valley
80% matchMostly Negative35% of 347 reviews2016
Dev: White Dog GamesPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Sleeping Valley - a new arcade platformer game In Sleeping Valley you only have one life to live and it's your job to see how far you can take this cute character on his brutally hard journey.
Why similar: Casual 71.3%, Adventure 15.5%, Indie 13.2%
- #31 Escape the Game
77% matchVery Positive83% of 1,889 reviews2016
Dev: Simon Fredholm
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 10%
Kevin is fed up with his game. Follow him in this atmospheric, dark and funny journey and fulfil his dreams. Is it even possible to escape?
Why similar: Adventure 60.4%, Indie 39.6%
- #32 A dead world's dream
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 52 reviews2016
Dev: JoqLePecheur
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A Dead World's Dream is a challenging retro platformerAs a peaceful alien, explore a harsh world looking for hidden species.Unlocking upgrades and power-ups, travel to even more treacherous places.Carefuly examine your surroundings before jumping toward new dangers and secrets.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #33 Orpheus's Dream
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 238 reviews2019
Dev: Orpheus's Dream Team
Windows
Orpheus’s Dream is a 3D isometric-inspired puzzle game with storytelling elements. Explore an amnesiac’s family house and recover lost memories of him and his cat.
Why similar: Casual 55.1%, Adventure 25.5%, Indie 19.3%
- #34 sun-rise.exe
73% matchVery Positive92% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: louis morel
Windows
Adventure through bizarre and intricately made levels in this 2D platformer game.
Why similar: Adventure 91.8%, Indie 8.2%
- #35 MORSOMNIA:0
72% matchVery Positive98% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: 沐沐睡星
Windows
Interacting with the unidentified life form “Kuon”, we move forward with the pain. A surreal, mysterious fancy adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #36 Happy Game
71% matchVery Positive90% of 3,400 reviews2021
Dev: Amanita Design
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
Why similar: Casual 57.5%, Adventure 22.1%, Indie 20.4%
- #37 NashBored
74% matchVery Positive99% of 79 reviews2019
Dev: Fading Club
Windows
NashBored is a surreal RPG in a dark and unique world.Nash just wont wake up. The dream goes deeper and deeper.What lies beyond the veil of your conscious thought? Who are you, really? Discover the truth of your dream reality.
Why similar: Adventure 55.7%, Indie 44.3%
- #38 Restless Dreams
71% matchVery Positive95% of 61 reviews2026
Dev: Room410
Windows
Before you realize it, dreams have become a curse. Wander through a darkened room and descend into the depths of her mind. A story-driven first-person horror game that leads you into an abyss of anguish and despair. Dedicated to those who once pursued their dreams—and to those who still do.
Why similar: Adventure 59.6%, Indie 40.4%
- #39 Friendly Fire
72% matchVery Positive95% of 1,035 reviews2020
Dev: The Cat Hive Developers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you save the world from an unknown destiny?
Why similar: Casual 56%, Adventure 23.5%, Indie 20.5%
- #40 Squirm
73% matchVery Positive96% of 179 reviews2018
Dev: Alex Carpenter
Windows · Mac · Linux
After a previous adventure, you and your rat friend stop for a snooze. When you wake up, the rat is gone and strange creatures have appeared across the land as if from out of nowhere! What has happened while you were asleep? Where is your rat friend?
Why similar: Adventure 53.9%, Indie 46.1%
- #41 Heavy Dreams
75% matchMostly Negative38% of 176 reviews2018
Dev: JMC Games
Windows
A boy. A laptop. A dream. In this game, you search through a young teenager's laptop, trying to find out his story. Solve hidden puzzles and read between the lines that he wrote in your quest to unravel the mystery of Jay Zhang.
Why similar: Adventure 86.1%, Indie 13.9%
- #42 'n Verlore Verstand
75% matchMixed50% of 182 reviews2016
Dev: Skobbejak GamesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Be prepared to be transported to a reality of dreams and nightmares. What will you discover about yourself in this journey through the subconscious?
Why similar: Casual 50.9%, Adventure 30.7%, Indie 18.4%
- #43 Wakey Wakey
69% matchVery Positive99% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: Moon Jam Games LLC
Windows
Wakey Wakey is a Puzzle Platformer with a unique world-bending twist. Navigate your everchanging bedroom, take control of new household objects, and overcome surprising obstacles to help this sleepy guy get a good night's rest.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #44 Night Reverie
70% matchVery Positive97% of 324 reviews2021
Dev: Somber Pixel
Windows
Night Reverie is 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 living in the house as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.
Why similar: Casual 62.3%, Adventure 23.5%, Indie 14.2%
- #45 Forgotten Places: Lost Circus
74% matchMixed45% of 83 reviews2018
Dev: Sungift Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Reveal the meaning behind strange dreams in this eerie Hidden Object encounter.
Why similar: Casual 56.3%, Adventure 24.5%, Indie 19.2%
- #46 Nightmare Zapping
69% matchVery Positive99% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Maldo19
Windows
A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.
Why similar: Adventure 56.7%, Indie 43.3%
- #47 Dream Stone
73% matchMixed58% of 133 reviews2017
Dev: QuickSavePub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You wake up and find yourself trapped in a dream. Only thing in your mind is to wake up. The key to wake up lies within 3 Dream Stones which are awaiting at the end of puzzles you encounter through the game in different dream chapters.
Why similar: Adventure 60.7%, Indie 39.3%
- #48 Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 528 reviews2025
Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
What dreams are made of is the stuff of nightmares in this new point-and-click adventure. Delve deep into realms both fantastical and terrifying, and use the power of lucid dreaming to solve puzzles, explore, and contend with eerie adversaries in your search for the brother you thought had died.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #49 The Last Dream: Developer's Edition
71% matchVery Positive81% of 389 reviews2015
Dev: Specialbit Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
“Reality and dreams are about to become entwined…..” The Last Dream: Developer's Edition" is a casual adventure game which, despite having some classic casual elements, will also offer a greater challenge for more experienced gamers.
Why similar: Casual 56.2%, Adventure 25%, Indie 18.8%
- #50 Low Oxygen
68% matchVery Positive89% of 299 reviews2023
Dev: Alex-Stefan Neagu
Windows · Linux
Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.
Why similar: Casual 67.5%, Adventure 29.6%, Indie 2.9%
- #51 Deep Sleep Trilogy
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 791 reviews2019
Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
You can’t run from your dreams in this unsettling classic point-and-click horror game from award-winning indie developer scriptwelder. To find a way out, you’ll have to go even deeper into your nightmares.
Why similar: Adventure 54%, Indie 46%
- #52 Frightened Beetles
69% matchVery Positive92% of 604 reviews2018
Dev: Anatoliy Loginovskikh
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 11%
Something terrible happened in the forest! Someone frightened all Bugs! What happened? You are the only one who can find it out!
Why similar: Casual 61.2%, Adventure 19.8%, Indie 19%
- #53 Neospace: Prologue
67% 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: Adventure 90.2%, Indie 9.8%
- #54 Milthm
66% matchVery Positive94% of 464 reviews2023
Dev: 森零工作室
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rhythm in rains. Realization in dreams. "All the words, belong to a melody of rain. Resonating within ripples, dreams of human remain. Wading through unknown dreams, our understanding shall be gained..."
Why similar: Casual 80.6%, Indie 19.4%
- #55 GLITCH DADDY
67% 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: Casual 55%, Adventure 25.8%, Indie 19.2%
- #56 VHS Collection: Goodnight Me
67% matchVery Positive81% of 91 reviews2024
Dev: Notick
Windows
VHS Collection: Goodnight Me is a short horror game where reality blurs with nightmares over five eerie days. Experience strange events, unsettling dreams, and unravel a chilling mystery in a remote house. Can you survive the madness, or will the nightmare consume you?
Why similar: Casual 64.2%, Adventure 20.7%, Indie 15.1%
- #57 Ghostdream
70% matchMixed67% of 67 reviews2016
Dev: ArkHousePub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
When you die, you normally have only one simple wish - to return and tell them - "Hey, guys - it's OK" But returning is not easy...
Why similar: Casual 56.3%, Adventure 24.9%, Indie 18.8%
- #58 Rememoried
70% matchMixed58% of 236 reviews2015
Dev: Vladimir KudelkaPub: Hangonit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Rememoried is an independent video game, a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting, which becomes a mechanism for proceeding to the next layer of dreams. The Surrealist explorative first-person adventure game.
Why similar: Adventure 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #59 Connected Hearts - Visual novel
67% matchVery Positive89% of 339 reviews2017
Dev: Eternal Night StudiosPub: Stw Projects
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Gary is caught in a strange dream and now he must overcome the adversities on his path or perish in the attempt. In this adventure you will meet 3 children in dream-like scenarios, next to a mysterious girl who talks about a promise.
Why similar: Casual 72%, Indie 28%