Surreal Hidden Gems on Steam
Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated surreal games.
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100 hidden snails
Hidden object game in a surreal style. Extremely hard!
Siren Head: Awakening
Siren Head: Awakening is a first-person horror game based on Trevor Henderson's artwork. You're stuck with your car in the middle of a dark forest with nothing but your flashlight. Seek escape by finding items necessary to survive while a terrifying monster lurks the shadows.
Penko Park
Snap pictures of spooky-cute creatures & explore an abandoned wildlife park.
The Signifier Director's Cut
This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.
My Exercise
Let's do sit-ups! Let a chubby boy do his exercise and sink into a dog's body. Maybe animals will come to cheer him up.
Progress Game
Experience Progress in its purest form as an Idle-Game!
Fight Crab
Welcome to Fight Crab.A new 3D action game where you take control of a crab, and fight off other giant enemy crabs.Physics allows for crabs to move powerfully and quickly in this hardcore battle arena.Freely control your pincers to use weapons and develop your own crab fighting style.
Paper Beast
An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.
[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車
The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車 is a psychological train horror game.
Chair F*cking Simulator
Use our innovative patented funky fresh ChairF*cker simulation tech to meet the chair of your wildest dreams.
tomorrow won't come for those without ██████
That day, we told a lie.
A Place, Forbidden
A Place, Forbidden is a first-person, lo-fi horror-puzzle game set in the Library of Ouroboros, a seemingly innocuous library that, rumor has it, contains knowledge not meant for the eyes of mortal man. We hope you enjoy your visit.
Fatum Betula
Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.
GOHOME
This is a third-person horror game set in a residential area in 2000s Japan. It's the complete version of the free horror game GOHOME, which was released in 2019 and caused a boom. The map has been doubled, and six more ghosts, including hidden characters, have been added to the game.
[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明
Missing Children | 行方不明 is a Japanese horror-themed adventure game about a bully detective searching for reported missing children.
The Walking Fish 2: Final Frontier
The Walking Fish returns, this time in space, in an all-new fish comedy horror experience. Stuck on a space station, you have to solve the mystery of the Walking Fish, and escape its terror.
BEAR, VODKA, FALL OF BERLIN! 🐻
This time, Motherland sent you to fight against the Nazi forces to capture Berlin. Kill enemies to get the maximum chance of survival.
Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1
On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?
MetaWare High School (Demo)
How do you see the world when nothing is real? An experimental metafictional visual novel.
Rhome
Rhome is a first-person dark atmospheric exploration game made by students at SMU Guildhall. Players navigate an increasingly chaotic and psychologically unnerving environment to reveal the fate of Hailey Rhome. Proceeds from your purchase on Steam go to support student development.
My Friend is a Raven
You return to your old apartment one last time, in search of a sickened raven. You must speak to him, and discover the cause behind the calamity that has spread across the world.
[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル
Inunaki tunnel (or Inunaki village) is a famous Japanese horror spot where people have been killed or burnt to death.
Discolored
Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.
Demons Never Lie
Demons Never Lie is a creepy graphic adventure made with voxel and low-poly where even your soul is at stake! An incredible and dark story with elements of the classic point&click and visual novels. An exciting interactive experience with a unique atmosphere.
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
A 3D-2D adventure where you travel a 3D world and explore 2D dungeons inside of its characters' bodies and minds! In an unforgettable, surreal story, travel the world, meet whimsical denizens, and save the world from the dangerous Nano Dust.
Etherborn
Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.