The Best Surreal Games

Update : Pathologic 3: Quarantine added at rank #1.
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Pathologic 3: Quarantine (2025)

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PC Windows

In this free prologue to a narrative-driven adventure, watch a mysterious plague break out in a small town. Learn what drove a celebrated academic to leave his acclaimed lab. Examine patients, uncover strange secrets, and make first steps towards immortality.

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  • immersive
  • lovecraftian
  • horror
  • simulation
  • dystopian
  • surreal
  • detective
  • non-chronological
  • rpg
  • psychological
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • survival-horror
  • survival
  • choices

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Menticide (2025)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Menticide is an endless runner where you protect a man running from himself. You draw lines to bounce the man around, block off enemies and cut through obstacles. Through strong symbolism and procedural rhetoric we are using the game as an analogue for mental health. 

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  • abstract
  • emotional
  • tutorial
  • thriller
  • quick-time-event
  • stylized
  • surreal
  • psychological
  • dark
  • top-down
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • horror
  • arcade

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Dreamcore (2025)

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Step into the surreal with Dreamcore, a body-cam styled psychological horror game that plunges you into the eerie beauty of "liminal spaces." Unravel the mysteries of Dreamcore’s non-linear worlds and uncover its hidden secrets. Can you discover what lies beyond the edge of reality?


  • horror
  • nonlinear
  • surreal
  • escape
  • walking-simulator
  • psychological
  • room
  • investigation
  • underwater
  • exploration
  • minimalist
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • relaxing
  • 3d

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Deadbeat (2025)

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PC Windows

Make your voice heard in this isometric Action-RPG where quick thinking and patience guide the way to victory. In a hazy Hereafter that's not heaven or hell, fight bizarre demons, call your friends, and explore the deepest reaches of death.

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  • souls
  • surreal
  • isometric
  • rpg
  • action
  • dark

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Discolored 2 (2025)

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All the colors have gone missing from the world. While on a mission to bring them back you discover you are being hunted by those who would see the colors banished. Your only hope is a woman in red who may be holding the key to preventing the world from becoming discolored.

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  • horror
  • lore
  • surreal
  • vampire
  • psychological
  • thriller
  • puzzle
  • first-person
  • exploration
  • action-adventure
  • mystery
  • story
  • survival-horror
  • difficult
  • survival

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After Dark (2025)

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After Dark is a horror adventure game filled with monsters, oddities, and more! Traverse a strange, other-worldly forest to rescue your sister and bring her back home! There will be many dangers along the way, can you survive?

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  • shooter
  • walking-simulator
  • loot
  • horror
  • hidden-object
  • first-person
  • linear
  • surreal
  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • multiple-endings
  • atmospheric
  • fps
  • zombies
  • dark

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The 4th Wall (2024)

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PC Windows

What lies beyond The 4th Wall?

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  • surreal
  • walking-simulator
  • horror
  • exploration
  • minimalist
  • first-person
  • visual
  • 3d
  • mind-bending

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Completely Stretchy (2024)

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PC Windows

A befuddling mishap has made you COMPLETELY STRETCHY! Stretch, swing and stick around the delightfully odd and vibrant Grombi Isles in this eccentric and light-hearted 3D platformer.

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  • parkour
  • 3d
  • exploration
  • platform
  • funny
  • immersive
  • surreal
  • open-world
  • abstract
  • first-person
  • cartoony
  • stylized
  • colourful
  • relaxing
  • wall-crawler

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Cave Hikers (2024)

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PC Windows

Cave Hikers is a relaxing and humorous 2D interactive cartoon mockumentary that follows three characters through a cavernous world, on a quest to find the mystical “cave with an infinite ceiling”.

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  • underground
  • relaxing
  • surreal
  • point-and-click
  • wholesome
  • exploration
  • comedy
  • cute
  • nature
  • fantasy
  • 2d
  • colourful
  • hand-drawn
  • story
  • hidden-object

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Crib (2024)

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It's time to face! As Milton, your past invites you to solve the mysteries. What you learn about yourself will surprise you. Most importantly remember that this is not a nightmare, this is a reality.


  • first-person
  • surreal
  • thriller
  • dark
  • mystery
  • horror
  • stealth
  • realistic
  • puzzle
  • fps
  • action-adventure
  • shooter
  • card
  • in-depth

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