The Best Atmospheric Games

Update : Pulse added at rank #41.
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Ouros (2024)

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Linux Mac OS IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

Ouros is a calming puzzle game about forming beautiful curves in a serene space. Find your flow as you nudge, bend, and stretch curves into pleasing shapes. With over 120 handcrafted puzzles to solve, Ouros invites you to discover the inherent mathematical beauty of its world.


  • relaxing
  • abstract
  • puzzle
  • atmospheric
  • casual
  • minimalist
  • spline
  • temple
  • colourful
  • stand-alone
  • single-player

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THE NORMAL THING (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS

THE NORMAL THING is a story about a dog who lost his memory. Sunless forests, strange gardens, weird inhabitants... Start a little journey to retrieve your memory.

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  • top-down
  • 2d
  • third-person
  • investigation
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • conversation
  • puzzle
  • exploration
  • horror
  • single-player
  • adventure

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Northern Journey (2021)

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PC Windows

A norwegian happysad game set in a northern land! Adventure through a beautiful and very varied wilderness. Dive, fly, use ziplines and find different weapons to aid your journey to reach the cold mountains and below. Encounter over 50 unique bosses and enemy types!

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  • nature
  • first-person
  • archery
  • action-adventure
  • shooter
  • atmospheric
  • medieval
  • underwater
  • fps
  • humor
  • retro
  • linear
  • exploration
  • fantasy
  • horror

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Shapik: The Moon Quest (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS IOS iPhone

SHAPIK: The Moon Quest is a touching and atmospheric quest, the story of which unfolds in a mysterious world after a nuclear war.

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  • beautiful
  • casual
  • point-and-click
  • touch-friendly
  • hand-drawn
  • cute
  • atmospheric
  • nature
  • post-apocalyptic
  • surreal
  • puzzle
  • dark
  • adventure
  • family-friendly
  • story

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Fatum Betula (2020)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.


  • ghibli
  • atmospheric
  • abstract
  • exploration
  • casual
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • retro
  • instrument

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Tiny Echo (2017)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Explore this lovingly crafted world with all its odd inhabitants as you deliver messages to the spirits. Make your mark in the wordless narrative - with a Tiny Echo.


  • tiny
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • cute
  • adventure
  • casual
  • art
  • slow-paced
  • hand-drawn
  • narrative
  • abstract
  • relaxing
  • surreal
  • comedy
  • puzzle

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Cat and Ghostly Road Windows (2020)

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Linux PC Windows

Cat and Ghostly Road is an atmospheric point-and-click quest in which you play as a white cat. You have to go on a dangerous journey to the world of ghosts and demons. Not all things are what they seems.


  • cats
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • supernatural
  • hidden-object
  • mythology
  • mystery
  • hand-drawn
  • bow
  • 2d
  • surreal
  • scroller
  • demons
  • family-friendly
  • puzzle

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Endlanders: First Encounter (2022)

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PC Windows Linux

Build your deck, glitch through enemies, translate unknown languages and decipher the mysteries of this universe, in this grid-based real time combat indie game. This version features only one playable character and serves as the prologue for the game.

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  • rpg
  • logic
  • magic
  • dark
  • top-down
  • colourful
  • futuristic
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • card
  • space
  • fantasy
  • surreal

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Manifold (2021)

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The game takes place in a "universe with a different set of physical laws" where the player can manipulate gravity, being able to "turn walls into floors".[6] The player must solve puzzles using the world's geometry in addition to devices within the architecture of the world.[6] To aid the player, the world's tone takes on one of six colors depending on which direction they have manipulated gravity. Several facets of the game's world may only be interacted with when the gravity is oriented directly, with these objects sharing one of the six colors.


  • puzzle
  • philosophical
  • abstract
  • 3d
  • nonlinear
  • platform
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • psychedelic
  • atmospheric
  • experimental
  • cinematic
  • scroller
  • artificial
  • intelligence

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The Hand of Glory (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

The challenge of a dangerous serial killer plummets detective Lazarus Bundy’s career into a chasm with no way out. In a desperate attempt at a comeback, Lazarus decides to secretly investigate the disappearance of Kathrin Mulzberg.

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  • thriller
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • third-person
  • first-time
  • comedy
  • story
  • adventure
  • inventory
  • funny
  • single-player
  • dark
  • in-depth
  • hand-drawn

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