The Best Surreal Games for Xbox Series X - Page 2

Update : The Mildew Children added at rank #16.
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Rain on Your Parade (2021)

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Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

You are a mischievous Cloud set to rain on everyone's parade! Travel the world and cause mayhem in numerous short-and-sweet levels, each with unique objectives. The ultimate Schadenfreude Simulator!


  • protagonist
  • dinosaurs
  • funny
  • relaxing
  • cute
  • surreal
  • stealth
  • comedy
  • villain
  • puzzle
  • military
  • 3d
  • destruction
  • colourful
  • physics

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Figment (2017)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android IOS iPhone stadia Playstation 4 Xbox One

Figment is an action-adventure game that invites you to explore a unique surreal universe filled with music, humor and multi layered narrative. Join Dusty and his ever-optimistic friend, Piper, on an adventure through the different sides of the mind seeking to restore the courage that's been lost.


  • surreal
  • puzzle
  • colourful
  • hand-drawn
  • boss-fight
  • boss
  • adventure
  • music
  • isometric
  • controller-support
  • story
  • rhythm
  • action-adventure
  • combat
  • cute

13

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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Papetura (2021)

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Xbox One Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.


  • point-and-click
  • puzzle
  • psychedelic
  • stylized
  • hand-drawn
  • surreal
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • family-friendly
  • 2d
  • relaxing
  • beautiful
  • moth
  • adventure
  • thought

15

An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs (2021)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X PC Windows

An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is an open-world comedy adventure game. Talk to stock photo dogs. Solve their problems. Catch your flight. And call it Dog Airport Game when you get tired of saying the full title, like I did three months ago.


  • dog
  • walking-simulator
  • comedy
  • surreal
  • family-friendly
  • sandbox
  • funny
  • first-person
  • open-world
  • conversation
  • visual-novel
  • real-time
  • comedy-adventure
  • emotional
  • physics

16

The Mildew Children (2024)

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Linux Mac OS Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel, The Mildew Children is a grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch named Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.


  • visual-novel
  • surreal
  • detective
  • quick-time-event
  • horror
  • choices
  • story
  • faith
  • scroller
  • psychological
  • exploration
  • magic
  • colourful
  • adventure
  • atmospheric

17

Manifold (2021)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Mac OS

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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Salamander County Public Television (2022)

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Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Become a professional thing-doer! Complete wacky assignments for Salamander County's local TV station, and solve the mystery of why nearly everyone in the county suddenly disappeared.


  • fmv
  • surreal
  • memes
  • collectathon
  • abstract
  • basketball
  • cooking
  • comedy
  • linear
  • dog
  • bowling
  • funny
  • stylized
  • 2d
  • story

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Under The Warehouse (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5

A mysterious caller sends you on a surreal journey to find a colorful egg in a sprawling warehouse. Meet the workers, collect items, and solve puzzles in this first person adventure with multiple endings.


  • walking-simulator
  • surreal
  • humor
  • 3d
  • multiple-endings
  • adventure
  • dark
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • linear
  • horror
  • old-school
  • inventory
  • management

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Kargast (2023)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Kargast is a dark narrative exploration game with light RPG elements, branching endings, and a semi-satirical view of narrative RPGs. It tells the story of an unwell child on the brink of death, and his adventures through his surreal, cryptic surroundings.


  • soundtrack
  • surreal
  • dark
  • multiple-endings
  • satire
  • humor
  • demons
  • fiction
  • choices
  • retro
  • cartoony
  • action-adventure
  • turn-based
  • pixel
  • 2d

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