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Surreal horror games on GOG

31 surreal horror games on GOG, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Its world follows dream or nightmare logic as a main part of the horror: impossible spaces, places and people that shift or make no sense, abstract or symbolic imagery the player moves through. A game with one dream sequence or hallucination in an otherwise ordinary world does not count.

31 games

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All surreal horror games on gog

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

Bad Dream: Coma

A dreamland you cannot die in, only suffer in.

PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox

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

Bad Dream: Fever

A city drowned in ink, and a fever that changes everyone it touches.

PC / Mac / Switch

Burnhouse Lane key art: a small girl stands before a giant skeletal hare-like creature beside a dark gabled house in red and grey fog

Burnhouse Lane

A dying nurse takes on five impossible tasks to win her life back.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Cube Escape Collection key art: a white cube outline and the title on a purple starry background

Cube Escape Collection

Nine strange rooms, one dead woman and the mystery of Rusty Lake.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Decarnation key art: a woman with dark hair that flows into a mass of flesh, organs and strange creatures, on a teal background

Decarnation

A cabaret dancer's life and nightmares, in surreal pixel art.

PC / Switch

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

DISTRAINT 2

A man's guilt turns rooms to rot as he walks a dreamlike road back from despair.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition key art: Price in a shirt and tie among a couple with teacups, an old woman in a wheelchair with a rabbit and three bald men, under a looming red elephant

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

Seize an old woman's home, then pay the price for it.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Fran Bow key art: Fran, blood running from one eye, holds her black cat before a red-eyed creature, with a skeleton in a top hat and masked figures on the left

Fran Bow

A girl escapes an asylum while her pills show her a world of blood and monsters.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

Harvester key art: a hooded figure with glowing red eyes raises a gleaming scythe under a purple and red night sky, with a domed building and red-lit minarets to the right

Harvester

Wake in a 1950s town of strangers and a cult that wants you to kill.

PC / Linux

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream key art: a man's face with a red eye and no mouth, merged into a microchip, beside the chrome title on blue circuitry

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Five prisoners of an insane computer, each sent through a nightmare of their own past.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

In Sound Mind key art: a man in a hat with a gaping mouth of teeth for a face, a cracked mannequin woman with a cat on her shoulder, a ghostly girl and a lighthouse

In Sound Mind

Step into your patients' worst memories, one tape at a time.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

KARMA: The Dark World key art: monochrome portrait of a wet-haired young man in a padded suit with a thick collar and numbered chest plate, lit from above on black

KARMA: The Dark World

Dive into the minds of the accused in a dystopian 1984.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Knock-knock key art: the red-haired Lodger in a scarf holds up a glowing candle while a huge shadowy skull-faced figure looms among dark branches

Knock-knock

Stay awake and sane until dawn in a cabin where something has moved in.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone

Layers of Fear key art: a torn blood-red canvas, with an eye and part of a painted face showing through the rip and an empty picture frame behind

Layers of Fear

A painter's mansion that changes every time you turn around.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Layers of Fear 2 key art: an ocean liner carried on a heap of jointed wooden mannequins and rats before dark red stage curtains

Layers of Fear 2

An ocean liner, a film shoot and a director who wants more than a performance.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

LOVE ETERNAL key art: a giant red woman with raised arms looms over blue suburban houses and pine trees at night

LOVE ETERNAL

A stolen child, a lonely god, and a castle built of bitter memories.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Necrophosis key art: a white skull emblem above the orange title, between a tentacled creature and a skeletal ribbed figure in the dark

Necrophosis

Wake billions of years after the universe died, in a world of decay.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

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

Neverending Nightmares

Wake from a nightmare into another one, and another, in black and white.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone

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

Pathologic 2

Twelve days to save a town from a plague you cannot kill.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

POOLS key art: a long rectangular pool of dark water with a metal rail and stairs at the back, in a hall of pale tiles stretching into the distance

Walking simulators

POOLS

Endless tiled pools, still water and nobody else.

PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone / PlayStation / Switch / VR

Rusty Lake Hotel key art: the grey gothic hotel on a small island in a still green lake, with mountains and a cloudy sky behind

Rusty Lake Hotel

Five guests, five dinners, and each one worth dying for.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Rusty Lake Paradise art: a man in a mosquito mask with insect wings hovers in a bare grey forest above a white rabbit beside a hole

Rusty Lake Paradise

Lift the ten plagues from a remote island and find out how your mother died.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Rusty Lake: Roots key art: a painted valley with a lake, mountains, a white palace on an island, a chapel and a windmill

Rusty Lake: Roots

Plant a strange seed and grow a family tree full of dark secrets.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Samsara Room key art: a pastel green room with floral wallpaper, a rotary telephone on a small wooden table and a tall pink grandfather clock, with the title above

Samsara Room

Wake in a strange room, and look closely at what stands in the mirror.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Sanitarium key art: a single bloodshot green eye staring out between strips of rough bandage

Sanitarium

Wake in an asylum with a bandaged head and no memory of why.

PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone / Android

Slay the Princess key art: a pencil-drawn princess kneels in chains on the floor of a dim stone basement under a barred window

Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut

A voice tells you to slay the princess. She says otherwise. Choose who to believe.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Strangeland key art: a giant skull with glowing violet eyes and a beaked mask, flanked by two ravens, over a fiery orange swirl

Strangeland

A nightmare carnival, a woman who keeps falling, and a Dark Thing on the roller coaster.

PC / Mac / Linux

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

The Evil Within 2

Go back into a dream world built from minds to save your daughter.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Tormentum key art: a pale skeletal figure with outstretched arms bound by cords before a huge skull in a wall of dark biomechanical flesh

Tormentum - Dark Sorrow

Wake in a cage under an airship, bound for a nightmare made of bone.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Underground Blossom key art: a gold pocket watch with white petals drifting around it in front of a dim brown train carriage

Underground Blossom

Ride a metro through one woman's memories, station by uneasy station.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Visage

Explore a shifting 1980s house haunted by the families who died in it.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

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