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Dream horror games on GOG

In these games you walk through dreams and nightmares: a toddler's memories turned into strange places, a lucid dream that will not end, worlds built inside someone's head. The rules of waking life slip, rooms lead where they should not, and the fear comes from not knowing what is real or how to wake up.

The top 25 of 25 dream horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 25 best on GOG

  1. Sally Face store header: Sal with blue pigtails and his white prosthetic face, between a long-haired teen and a figure in bloody bandages PsychologicalSally FaceDream sequences of Sal's nightmares fill in his past between the episodes' investigations. 97% on Steam (30,172 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  2. Notch - The Innocent LunA key art: a pink-haired girl against a red glow and a green-haired girl in a black choker against pale light, back to back PsychologicalNotch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerSThe store asks whether the narrator's memories are reality or a dream, and the townsfolk escape into dreams of ruin and rebirth. 95% on Steam (3,295 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC
  3. Dagon key art: an engraved medallion of an island under the moon, ringed by tentacles, sea creatures and a great eye, on a starry black field PsychologicalDagon: by H. P. LovecraftThe free extra story What the Moon Brings adapts a Lovecraft tale based on his nightmare, set in a surreal dreamscape. 95% on Steam (12,410 reviews)about 30 minFreePC, VR, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  4. Baby Blues Nightmares key art: the crayon-style title over black ink splatter in a dim child's bedroom with blue cloud-painted walls and a wooden wardrobe SurvivalBaby Blues NightmaresThe whole game is a toddler's nightmare, where it is hard to tell what is real and what is not. 98% on itch.io (584 ratings)about 2 hPaidPC
  5. Slender Threads key art: a frightened Harvey by a campfire in a night forest, masked hooded figures behind him and a mustached man aiming a revolver near a red-lit totem Puzzle horrorSlender ThreadsEvery night Harvey has the same dream of his own head mounted on a wall, and the town's deaths seem to follow it 94% on Google Play (1,710 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch, iPhone, Android
  6. Pathologic 2 key art: two thin dark figures with stitched torsos and blank white masks with small black eyes stand against a blood-red background PsychologicalPathologic 2Dreams and visions break into the story, starting with the train prologue, blurring what is fiction and what is real. 92% on Steam (12,269 reviews)28 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  7. Painted art of Thomasina Bateman at a rain-streaked window, her reflection in the glass, looking out at a moor where cracks of pink light spread from a stone barrow PsychologicalThe Excavation of Hob's BarrowThomasina's strange dreams are a central part of the horror. 92% on Steam (3,459 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch
  8. Without a Dawn key art: a dim sun setting over dark water, drawn in tiny brown and orange text characters PsychologicalWithout a DawnIn her nightmares a man in a gas mask makes her doubt what is real and urges her to find him 92% on Steam (947 reviews)about 45 minPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  9. Bad Dream: Coma key art: crows perch on cracked yellow paper with ink-drawn glimpses of a hospital bed, a house and a table with a bloody cleaver PsychologicalBad Dream: ComaThe whole game is a surreal, disturbing dreamland that you can turn into a peaceful nap or not. 91% on Steam (2,226 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Switch, Xbox
  10. Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place key art: a cracked wind-up snow globe holding a snowy two-storey house and pine trees, on a dark background PsychologicalMidnight Scenes: A Safe PlaceHe yearns for sleep, but terrible nightmares haunt him, and the store says they push his sanity close to the edge 95% on Steam (245 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC
  11. Dreams in the Witch House key art: old gabled houses and bare trees under a green night sky, one attic window glowing purple 2D horrorDreams in the Witch HouseWalter's dreams carry him to other worlds, such as a balcony under three suns where he says he must be dreaming. 91% on Steam (399 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC
  12. Black Mirror II key art: a shattered-glass collage with a man seen from behind in fog facing a gothic castle, and small game scenes in the broken shards Puzzle horrorBlack Mirror IIDarren is haunted by a series of torturous and ever-intensifying nightmares. 90% on Steam (725 reviews)18 h or morePaidPC
  13. Black Mirror III key art: a smirking young man in a jacket above a burning gothic manor, a church, a graveyard and a heap of skulls Puzzle horrorBlack Mirror IIIDarren is tormented by sleepless nights and nightmare visions, and wants to know what they mean. 90% on Steam (556 reviews)13 h or morePaidPC
  14. Children of Silentown key art: a girl and child silhouettes with glowing white eyes before a pale moon, between red foliage and teal village houses 2D horrorChildren of SilentownNot even Lucy's dreams are safe: black-and-white dream scenes show her alone in a circle of light while voices call her name. 87% on Steam (1,597 reviews)about 6.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  15. The Sinking City 2 key art: a man in a fedora with a shotgun on his back stands waist-deep in floodwater under an Arkham cemetery arch, wrapped by rising tentacles SurvivalThe Sinking City 2The woman Calvin loves has her soul trapped in the Dreamlands while something else takes her body 90% on the PlayStation Store (2,506 ratings)10 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  16. Decarnation key art: a woman with dark hair that flows into a mass of flesh, organs and strange creatures, on a teal background PsychologicalDecarnationGloria's days in Paris give way to dreams and nightmares, and the store calls it a dreamlike adventure where reality and fantasy become one 87% on Steam (1,140 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC, Switch
  17. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers key art: the title over a pixelated red and orange collage of a man holding a flame and a pale beaked mask 2D horrorGabriel Knight: Sins of the FathersGabriel is tormented by terrifying nightmares, and the store page says the nightmare begins whenever he sleeps 88% on Steam (197 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC
  18. DISTRAINT 2 key art: Price in a white shirt and loose red tie between a hooded old man with a huge pack and a grinning man in a suit, a horned shadow behind them PsychologicalDISTRAINT 2GameSpew notes the game's dreamlike quality, moving from a shadowy spectre to a talk with the personification of loss. 95% on Steamabout 2.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  19. The Coma: Recut key art: close-up of a girl with long dark hair pressing a bandaged finger to her lips SurvivalThe Coma: RecutYoungho drifts asleep during his final exam and wakes in a nightmare version of his school 84% on Steam (3,117 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  20. Phantasmagoria store art: the title in dark gothic capitals with a pale outline, over a soft blue-white glow on a black background Fixed cameraPhantasmagoriaAdrienne's nightmares begin soon after the move, and visions show her how the magician's wives really died. 82% on GOG (1,364 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC
  21. The Evil Within 2 key art: a pale, monochrome Sebastian Castellanos with eyes closed and a pistol under his chin, ghostly hands on his shoulders and faces in white liquid among black tendrils PsychologicalThe Evil Within 2STEM is a machine that links human minds into one shared world, and Union is built inside it. 92% on Steam14 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  22. Bad Dream: Fever key art: the hand-drawn title on stained paper beside a skull-labelled bottle of pills and a syringe, edged with dark blue ink blots PsychologicalBad Dream: FeverYou enter a feverish dream, a world the makers describe as sleep during a fever 82% on Steam (1,349 reviews)about 3 hFreePC, Mac, Switch
  23. Ad Infinitum key art: a black-and-white screaming skeleton in a German steel helmet, barbed wire around its spine, against a pale grey background PsychologicalAd InfinitumThe game moves between reality and nightmare until you cannot tell the bedroom from the trenches. 78% on Steam (1,885 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  24. Conarium key art: a pale man's face with glowing white eyes and a light shining from his forehead PsychologicalConariumPart of the game takes place in dreams and visions that you explore as well as the base and ruins. 77% on Steam (2,291 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  25. Neverending Nightmares key art: a frightened man holds a red candle while a pale woman with bleeding red eyes reaches for him, in black and white ink PsychologicalNeverending NightmaresThomas wakes from a terrible nightmare only to find he is still dreaming, and sinks through layer after layer of dreamscapes. 76% on Steam (3,051 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Switch, iPhone

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