The Best Surreal Games - Page 5

Update : Stasis Valley added at rank #1.
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Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story (2024)

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42 of the weirdest, trippiest, sheepiest games ever created. Enter the mind of Jeff Minter, the legendary creator of Attack of the Mutant Camels, Gridrunner, and Tempest 2000, in this interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse.


  • platform
  • precision
  • psychedelic
  • documentary
  • controller-support
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • interactive
  • surreal
  • 1980s
  • arcade
  • abstract
  • retro
  • pixel
  • 1990s

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Barbotine (2024)

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PC Windows

An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.

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  • 1990s
  • surreal
  • psychological
  • psychedelic
  • lovecraftian
  • abstract
  • first-person
  • dark
  • stylized
  • horror
  • atmospheric
  • magic
  • old-school
  • walking-simulator
  • minimalist

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Phenom Overdrive (2024)

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PC Windows

A space adventure across colorful and abstract environments with simple controls and mechanics. Featuring precise, physics based, action. Sometimes a fast-paced thrill. Sometimes a slightly methodic thinker. Sometimes, even, a rage inducing dread. Always exhilarating.

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  • abstract
  • scroller
  • surreal
  • science
  • linear
  • action-adventure
  • multiple-endings
  • sci-fi
  • space
  • survival
  • old-school
  • physics
  • supernatural
  • colourful
  • difficult

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REVEIL - Funhouse Edition (2024)

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Xbox One

Funhouse Edition
 In addition to REVEIL, the Funhouse Edition contains the following DLCs: -REVEIL Original Soundtrack: 14 original compositions, beautiful and haunting. 
-Digital Artbook: A look behind the scenes of the game, featuring concept art and inspirations. 
-Black and White Camera Filter: Use this in game for vintage horror atmosphere. 
-Audio Plays: A selection of audio plays recorded with the game's voice actors, more bits and pieces from the world of REVEIL. 
-Developer Commentary: Commentary by the developers to be found in-game, for even more background insights.

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  • driven
  • surreal
  • horror
  • psychedelic
  • psychological
  • narrative

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Project Ictos (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

Avoid everything, touch nothing, and reach a screen edge!

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  • bullet-hell
  • surreal
  • linear
  • minimalist
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • arcade
  • difficult
  • dark
  • casual
  • controller-support
  • soundtrack

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Please, Touch the Artwork 2 (2024)

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A handpainted cozy hidden object adventure. Explore a surreal world. Collect items for its quirky inhabitants. Fix damaged paintings and solve casual puzzles. Help a lost skeleton painter find his way home. This game is short but 100% FREE (no ads, no dlc's).


  • hidden-object
  • dark
  • surreal
  • zen-puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • casual
  • narrative-adventure
  • puzzle
  • humor
  • cats
  • adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • colourful
  • friends-and-family
  • exploration

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Kona II: Brume (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Linux PC Windows Xbox One

Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.


  • surreal
  • detective
  • mystery
  • investigation
  • snow
  • narration
  • interactive
  • exploration
  • walking-simulator
  • story
  • fiction
  • first-person
  • adventure
  • action-adventure
  • 3d

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GLASS (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Glass is a 3D, first-person psychological thriller that will lead you through an increasingly dark and volatile world in search of an enigmatic author and his mysterious, tragic past. What you uncover will change you forever.


  • narration
  • walking-simulator
  • dynamic
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • thriller
  • linear
  • atmospheric
  • hidden-object
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • dark
  • investigation
  • puzzle
  • mystery

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Lisle Engle Heavy Distance (2023)

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Android IOS iPhone PC Windows

Heavy Distance is the ground breaking interactive single from Lisle Engle.


  • psychedelic
  • surreal
  • abstract
  • simulation
  • immersive
  • atmospheric
  • minimalist

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The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales (2023)

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Xbox One Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

The Bookwalker is a narrative adventure in which you play as Etienne Quist, a writer-turned-thief with the ability to dive into books. Use your powers to journey between reality and book worlds, and steal legendary items like Thor's Hammer and Excalibur to restore your ability to write.


  • turn-based
  • isometric
  • surreal
  • noir
  • lore
  • dystopian
  • partner-in-crime
  • fiction
  • story
  • book
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • thriller
  • puzzle
  • dark

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