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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Answer Knot A short narrative and exploration game about Zach, June, and a strange phenomenon. You're Zach and, stuck in your home, you will do everything to keep hearing June's voice messages. What is happening out there?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 31 May 2019
The Cursed Forest Immerse yourself in the obscure and mysterious autumnal forest, where every wrong step could be your last. As you travel uncover the dark story behind this place, where beauty and danger have become as one.

Price -79% 2.52€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Feb 2019
Strange Telephone Strange Telephone is a 2D adventure game in which the player explores strange worlds created with merely 6 digits, and has multiple endings.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Jan 2019
Becalm Fancy a relaxing drift through magical waters? Enjoy this seafaring voyage in search of the sunset!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Jan 2019
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG Experience YIIK: A Postmodern RPG 1.5 (I.V) update with revamped battles and cutscenes. A child relinquishes her name for a birthday invite, hoping to find her brother. Alex's reality unravels, guided by a mysterious cat, witnessing a woman vanish, igniting an obsession that threatens his world.

Price -31% 13.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 17 Jan 2019
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.

Price -69% 4.71€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Jan 2019
Paperbark Paperbark is a charming game that tells a beautiful short story of a wombat, the bush and a very hot Australian Summer.

Price -87% 1.00€
Rating 8.2
Release 12 Dec 2018
My Big Sister My name is Luzia...and this story isn't about me, it’s about my sister. Do you still wish to hear it?

Price -91% 0.58€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Nov 2018
Umfend The glass sphere burst in the night of 1996. The world of distortion opened its gates and took away from you someone very important. However, in 2005, the past emerges again to hunt you once more. An atmospheric horror about love and time.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 30 Oct 2018
Infliction Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.

Price -57% 7.91€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Oct 2018
Verlet Swing Verlet Swing brings you energetic swinging in a world that would be best described as a fever dream. Swing fast, don't crash and reach the goal as fast as possible!

Price -97% 0.41€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Sep 2018
Virtual Virtual Reality A game about VR, AI, and our collective sci-fi fever dreams. In a future where AI has transformed society, can humans still find purpose? Find out with Activitude, a service that lets humans aid AI clients in increasingly curious ways.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Sep 2018
Lucah: Born of a Dream FOR THE POWER AND GLORY; NOW AND FOREVER

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Aug 2018
Pool Panic Pool Panic is an unconventional billiards game with something new around every corner. It's the world's least realistic pool simulator!

Price -97% 0.40€
Rating 7.4
Release 19 Jul 2018
DERE EVIL EXE DERE EVIL EXE is both a terrifying thriller with a gripping meta horror story and a retro 16-bit pixel platformer with unique puzzles and obstacles.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Jul 2018
Animyst Explore a strange and dark afterlife as the Undead. Inhabit the body of a Skeleton or Fleshy Corpse and build a new life in The Droughts, a giant desert of ancient ruins and occult monsters. Craft powerful spells and befriend or battle other players in a single open online world...

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Jul 2018
Youropa A platform puzzle paint adventure about breaking rules, being upside down and thinking outside the box.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Jun 2018
OK/NORMAL OK/NORMAL is a short, experimental third-person horror experience, inspired by early 3D console games of the 90's. Journey through a dark, disjointed, dreamlike dimension with your cloud companion! Remember a good diet, take your medicine, and you should be fine!

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 Jun 2018
Suicide Guy: Sleepin' Deeply In this new chapter of "Suicide Guy" you'll be challenged with even more insane puzzles, generated by the surreal dreams of the Guy. You'll encounter the weirdest of the living beings as you go deeper and deeper into his subconscious. This time to wake him up you'll need all your skills.

Price -96% 0.24€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Jun 2018
Gray Dawn Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.

Price -72% 4.80€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Jun 2018
Shape of the World A serene first person exploration game in a surreal, organic world that reacts to your presence. Journey through a psychedelically colorful ecosystem of flourishing flora, rambling waterfalls, burgeoning mountains, glowing monoliths and graceful creatures. A 1-3 hour escape from work, anxiety and stress.

Price -97% 0.42€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Jun 2018
Wrongworld Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?

Price -92% 0.57€
Rating 8.7
Release 11 May 2018
Doodle Date Romance, seduce, and even marry your own drawings! Forget about finding true love; In Doodle Date, you create it!

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 19 Apr 2018
Super Daryl Deluxe Shoot rubber ducky arrows, pound enemies with a rhino hammer, and help Beethoven get his groove back in the last totally normal high school themed RPGvania you’ll ever want.

Price -97% 0.77€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Apr 2018
The 25th Ward: The Silver Case In the bayside area of Kanto, a murder with unknown motivations sets off a series of seemingly random events bringing together peculiar individuals, one of whom is detective Tokio Morishima. When their ambitions begin to collide, a truly shocking pattern emerges…

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 13 Mar 2018
Rise of Insanity In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.

Price -89% 1.16€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Mar 2018
BREAK ARTS II Faster than anyone. Stronger than anyone. And more stunning. Customize your robot for “cyber battle racing” in a game that offers all the thrills of racing, battle, and customization. Online, Offline, Time-Attack... which mode will you dominate?!

Price -44% 8.41€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 Feb 2018
Indecision. A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.

Price -84% 0.48€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Feb 2018
The Sand Man “I’ll tell you a scary story. It’s so scary you might not be able to take it. It’s the story of the Sand Man...” This is the second title in the Strange Man series, developed by Uri Games. Unable to sleep and exhausted, Sophie wanders into a town where everything sleeps. That is where the terror begins...

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 29 Jan 2018
Organ Quarter Organ Quarter is a VR survival horror game built from the ground-up for hand-tracked virtual reality. Explore labyrinthine environments, engage in tense combat, carefully manage your resources and solve horrifying puzzles in this homage to the slow, methodical survival horror experiences of the '90s

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Oct 2017
Will Glow the Wisp Navigate through psychadelic mazes to chill electornic beats. Imagine a mix between Super Meat Boy and Geometry Wars.

Price -80% 0.41€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Sep 2017
The Land of Pain The Land of Pain is a Lovecraftian horror adventure. After something strange appears in the woods, you'll have to learn how to survive as you fend off a dark and disturbing evil. Flee from an unrelenting enemy, solve puzzles, and unravel the ancient mystery that's befallen this land.

Price -68% 3.89€
Rating 7.2
Release 13 Sep 2017
Mothlight In a world corrupted by Eldritch abominations, Enzo must climb out of the hellish depths of the universe. From the Black Sea to the Planes of Neethan, it is your job to make your pilgrimage back to the Worlds above. In the black hell of this world, only Moths and demons await you.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Aug 2017
Downward: Enhanced Edition Downward is a first-person open-world parkour based platform adventure set in the medieval ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet Earth. Make your way through breath-taking landscapes, face ancient guardians and unravel the deep mystery that lies behind the disappearance of humanity.

Price -87% 1.33€
Rating 6.8
Release 13 Jul 2017
Lydia Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Jun 2017
OVIVO OVIVO is a minimalistic platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in this metaphoric world is filled with illusions and hidden messages.

Price -80% 1.95€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 May 2017

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