Best Surreal Games 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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Nevermind Nevermind ushers you into dark and surreal worlds within the minds of trauma patients. When played with supported biofeedback technology, Nevermind picks up on indications of fear—lashing out if you allow your feelings of anxiety to get the better of you.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 29 Sep 2015
Else Heart.Break() A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.

Price 24.50€
Rating 6.5
Release 24 Sep 2015
Albino Lullaby: Episode 1 Albino Lullaby is a horror adventure game that doesn't rely on jump scares or gore. Escape from a surreal psychological nightmare as the world dynamically twists and contorts around you.

Price 24.50€
Rating 6.7
Release 14 Sep 2015
Dropsy Dropsy is a non-traditional take on the classic point and click adventure formula starring the game’s perpetually carefree namesake clown as he explores a richly detailed world full of colorful characters and sinister secrets, doling out hugs along the way.

Price -84% 1.58€
Rating 8.9
Release 10 Sep 2015
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Sep 2015
Close Your Eyes [Old Version] A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 31 Aug 2015
Stray Cat Crossing Stray Cat Crossing is an indie pixel horror game about an encounter with a mysterious little girl named Cat. Explore a surreal world filled with colorful characters, challenging riddles, and dark secrets.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Aug 2015
Fran Bow Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 27 Aug 2015
Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden “Master, Master! I did it!!” "I can hear you, no need to shout! Oh, my! This is a rather firm Kidney." My Organic Garden is an avant-garde organ-clicking game. Whether it’s to get Master’s praise, or to please the customer, click away and ship those organs!

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Aug 2015
RymdResa A relaxed roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated universe! Travel through a lonely and mysterious cosmos. Customize your ship, explore and survive!

Price -83% 2.07€
Rating 7.0
Release 20 Aug 2015
the static speaks my name A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Aug 2015
Absolute Drift Absolute Drift is a racing game about becoming a master at the art of drifting.

Price -95% 0.64€
Rating 8.5
Release 29 Jul 2015
Through Abandoned: The Underground City It’s the first game of Through Abandoned series, classical point and click game. You try to find your twin-brother who disappeared in a huge and mysterious place called Abandoned.

Price -80% 0.20€
Rating 7.6
Release 22 Jul 2015
Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS This is an isolated town, a town of memories that have been forgotten by its people. However, this small town has not been quiet and peaceful since the murders began... Time passes by, where are the sinful spirits going? Are my memories reality, or just a dream?

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Jun 2015
Dreaming Sarah 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!

Price -91% 0.47€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Mar 2015
Plug & Play Run, hit, switch, fall, love, plug, pull. And push.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Mar 2015
Cubicle Quest Cubicle Quest is a game about how life can suck. Dead end jobs, repetitive obligations, irritating coworkers... Cubicle Quest takes all of those things and turns them into enemies you can fight in an old-school RPG.

Price -96% 0.22€
Rating 7.0
Release 25 Feb 2015
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

Price -98% 0.39€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Feb 2015
The Old Tree The Old Tree is a short free-to-play cinematic puzzle game about a newborn alien baby. Witness this microscopic entity's first moments of life and help it emerge from its underground lair and ascend towards an unknown destination.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Jan 2015
Potatoman Seeks the Troof Potatoman will put your reflexes and worldview to the test as you journey through scorching deserts, dark forests, busy cities, the tallest mountains and eventually your own potato-consciousness in search of the ultimate answer. Are you prepared to face the TROOF?

Price -95% 0.20€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Dec 2014
The Old City: Leviathan The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.

Price -90% 0.63€
Rating 6.9
Release 03 Dec 2014
Magical Battle Festa TEOS, an agency of holy mages, holds a tournament to find the best magic users in the world to take on a dark threat looming on the horizon. Choose your mage and take to the arena in this fast-paced competitive fighting game that mixes troop formations and fast action.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.0
Release 21 Nov 2014
A Bird Story An experimental short from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise: A simple & surreal 1-hour interactive animation about a boy and an injured bird, told without dialogues.If you're looking for To the Moon-like experience, I'd suggest playing Finding Paradise first.

Price -64% 1.46€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Nov 2014
Sanitarium Originally released in 1998 on PC, and awarded as the Adventure Game of the Year, The timeless horror point-and-click, Sanitarium, is returning to frighten the bravest adventure game fans.

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Oct 2014
TRI: Of Friendship and Madness Find a way through the towers and dungeons of TRI by solving puzzles, climbing impossible ascents and reflecting light-rays. The mystical TRI will let you create your own paths in this strange world – just try not to lose your mind when you're falling upside down!

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Oct 2014
The Journey Down: Chapter Two Chapter Two of The Journey Down, a classic point-and-click saga with an Afro-Caribbean vibe. Get ready to embark on an epic journey of brain-teasing adventure!

Price -94% 0.77€
Rating 8.9
Release 25 Aug 2014
Back to Bed 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.

Price -93% 0.39€
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Aug 2014
MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!

Price 12.49€
Rating 6.4
Release 05 Aug 2014
Only If Only If is a surreal first person adventure-puzzle game. It takes idiom into reality.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 25 Jul 2014
Munin Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.

Price -91% 0.48€
Rating 7.8
Release 10 Jun 2014
Astebreed: Definitive Edition Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.

Price -55% 9.12€
Rating 8.4
Release 30 May 2014
Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition Get ready for some seriously stylish action from renowned designer SUDA51. In this exclusive version for PC, players will be slicing, dicing, and shooting as the suave executioner Mondo Zappa. Prepare for the thrill of love and kill in KILLER IS DEAD!

Price -91% 1.87€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 May 2014
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.

Price -96% 0.92€
Rating 8.3
Release 08 May 2014
The Desolate Hope On a distant edge of an unknown planet, an abandoned structure sits in silence. Constructed by an unmanned research vessel sent from Earth, the Lun Infinus station was designed to run simulations for a five year period, exploring possibilities of human colonization in the case that Earth became uninhabitable.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 05 May 2014
Vangers Mind-altering sandbox game that can be described as a racing role-playing adventure game with a complicated storyline. You’ll find a unique atmosphere, complete freedom and lots of gameplay hours to figure out what’s the game is all about.

Price -49% 3.62€
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Apr 2014
FRACT OSC FRACT is a musical exploration game. You arrive in a forgotten place and explore the vast and unfamiliar landscape to discover the secrets of a world built on sound. You rebuild its machinery by solving puzzles and bring the world back to life by shaping sound and creating music in the game.

Price -96% 0.68€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Apr 2014

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