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Surreal horror games on PC

94 surreal horror games on PC, 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.

94 games

All surreal horror games on pc

0_abyssalSomewhere screenshot: a dark figure walks past a long row of stone arches over pale sand

Story-led horror

0_abyssalSomewhere

Wander a sunken realm of shades and old regrets.

PC / Mac

A fenced garden in an autumn forest, the trees glowing red and orange in low sunlight

A Wolf in Autumn

A locked shed, a lovely autumn forest, and wolves howling closer.

PC

Albino Lullaby: a Victorian mansion in flames under glowing green bubbles bursting from its towers

Albino Lullaby: Episode 1

Escape a surreal underground Victorian town that rebuilds itself around you.

PC / VR

Among the Sleep key art: a toddler in starry pyjamas hugs a teddy bear on a crescent moon that drips into a shadow with glowing eyes

Among the Sleep

Crawl through a nightmare house as a toddler searching for your mother.

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

A dark living room lit only by a glowing blue television, scratched with white glitch lines

ANATOMY

Every house is haunted. Learn the anatomy of this one.

PC / Mac / Linux

Anthology Of The Killer key art: BB, a small pink-haired girl, stands at the end of a line of grotesque cartoon characters, some covered in blood

Anthology Of The Killer

A zine writer, a city of serial killers and a world that runs on dream logic.

PC / Linux

Bad Dream: Coma art: crows perch on cracked yellow paper that opens onto ink-drawn glimpses of a hospital bed, a house and a bloodstained floor

Bad Dream: Coma

A dreamland you cannot die in, only suffer in.

PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox

Bad Dream: Fever screenshot: a hand-drawn public toilet splashed with dark blue ink, 'Not ready yet' and 'Come back later' scrawled on the walls and stall doors

Bad Dream: Fever

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

PC / Mac / Switch

Bad Dream: Stories art: an ink-drawn butcher's cleaver with a bloody notch beside a severed finger on stained yellow paper

Bad Dream: Stories

Five short bad dreams, drawn in ink, where every choice can go horribly wrong.

PC

Being Her Darkest Friend: Selina stands on a rock ledge in the dark as a grey figure with red eyes sits above her, with the line 'Tomoko?!'

Being Her Darkest Friend

An art student wakes inside her own nightmare and has to find a way out.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Bevel, a girl in pink, stands on a green rug in a stone castle hall with red curtains and coloured paint bottles on pedestals

Bevel's Painting

Step into your own painting, where nobody speaks your language and something is wrong.

PC

Mishiro, a dark-haired girl, stands on a narrow stone pillar before an ornate mirror in a black void: The girl came to, again standing before the mirror

Blank Dream

Break every mirror in a world between heaven and hell, one death at a time.

PC

Broken Through key art: an old CRT monitor and computer tower under the red title, framed like a paused VHS tape

Broken Through

Your best friend was declared dead. His belongings say otherwise.

PC

Burnhouse Lane key art: a tall wooden house in red mist with a small figure facing a huge skeletal cat-like creature

Burnhouse Lane

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

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Ceasing to be Her Demise nightmare art: a skeleton slumped in front of a grey wall of ribs, with tentacle-like shapes and an eye in the dark below

Ceasing to be Her Demise

Selina's nightmares follow her home, in the last part of the trilogy.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

CINERIS SOMNIA key art: a black-haired girl in a dark dress with a parasol standing on a pale, empty city street lined with lamp posts

CINERIS SOMNIA

Wake alone on a bright shore, and walk into three girls' cruel and lonely dreams.

PC

Closer To Home screenshot: the boy in a green shirt stands beside a figure in white in a purple pixel-art wood scattered with white sacks, as a large pale portrait says it will leave this house foreve

Closer To Home

Find the pieces of your dad in a town where death is a tool.

PC / Mac

COLD CITY cover: a flayed, low-poly head with an open mouth in front of grey tower blocks, under the title

COLD CITY

A city at war, a girl in danger, and half an hour to save her.

PC / Mac

Cookies screenshot: a squalid apartment living room with a deer head, an anarchy sign sprayed on the wall and trash on the floor, under a VHS filter

Cookies

A drug pusher, a rotten Florida flophouse, and a bad trip that will not end.

PC

Cube Escape Collection screenshot: a man with a crow's head, a giant green glass and a fish with human legs stand in a cardboard room

Cube Escape Collection

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

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Cube Escape: Paradox screenshot: a crow-headed man in a suit sits in an armchair in a green, moth-papered room under a framed painting

Cube Escape: Paradox

Wake with no memory in a strange room, and escape the game an old foe has set.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

DARQ screenshot: Lloyd, a pale boy in a striped shirt, crosses a tilted room of pipes and machines as gravity turns

DARQ: Complete Edition

Walk on the walls of a nightmare you cannot wake from, and keep out of sight.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Death Frame screenshot: a dark mansion hall with columns and a staircase, hung with ornate framed paintings of a giant eye, a burning figure and a green twisted corridor

Death Frame

Inherit a serial killer's mansion, and step into his paintings.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

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

Decarnation

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

PC / Switch

Deep Sleep Trilogy key art: a skeleton lies on a filthy, moss-stained bed under a dark sky in grainy pixel art

Deep Sleep Trilogy

You cannot run from your dreams, only go deeper.

PC

Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken key art: Amy with a flashlight among twisted trees set with clock faces, dark figures in the archways behind her

Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken

Your brother's dream journals lead somewhere you should not go.

PC

DEMON DUST screenshot: through a green terminal frame, a revolver is raised at two blood-red, fleshy creatures with staring eyes in a dark earthen tunnel; HP 100 and an hourglass of DUST at the side

DEMON DUST

Go down through a complex of concrete and dust, one floor deeper each time.

PC

A still tiled pool hall with a white spiral staircase and a dark round opening in the wall

Story-led horror

Dreamcore

Get lost in endless dream pools, a looping suburb and a hotel out of time.

PC

Eclipsium key art: a hooded figure with one huge round eye in a red cave, a robed figure holding up a glowing orb behind

Eclipsium

Follow a fading light through a world of flesh, and give up your body to reach her.

PC

Endacopia key art: a round-headed boy in a red cap beside a sign with a worried face, against a starry black sky

Endacopia

A boy with no senses, a cheerful world, and horrors if you go looking.

PC

Enupishi screenshot: a white cat figure named KAT, a cat god, stands in a neon field of binary code under a glitching purple sky

Enupishi

A forbidden love inside a game. One night they run. How far can they go?

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

False Dream screenshot: the dark dream apartment with a television showing colour bars, a bed and a low table

False Dream

Photograph what is wrong with the room, or stay in the dream.

PC

Feet In The Snow cover: a snowy path through pine trees lit by a single street lamp, with the title in pixel letters

Feet In The Snow

You keep having the same strange dream. Maybe you should talk about it.

PC

Forest Escape: Last Train art: three prisoners in orange jumpsuits and sack and wooden masks stand in a misty forest beside a steam locomotive

Forest Escape: Last Train

Keep the locomotive running through a mad Warden's nightmare forest.

PC

Golden Light art: a monster with a screen for a head showing a mouth full of teeth, beside a cluster of pink eyeballs in a dark room

Golden Light

A meat-filled roguelike shooter where the props hunt you.

PC

Hello Charlotte EP1 cover: Charlotte, a pale girl with long white hair, held by red puppet strings from yellow hands, under a one-eyed figure

Hello Charlotte EP1: Junk Food, Gods and Teddy Bears

Your puppet's friend is lost in the static. Keep her safe, or don't.

PC

Hello Charlotte EP2 key art: Charlotte, a pale girl drawn in black and white, cries against a dark background

Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo

Steer your puppet through the House, the School and a Trial nobody escapes.

PC

House key art: two girls sitting on a small grassy world under a grey, cloudy sky

House

The house is trying to kill your family. You have until morning to change that.

PC

House Hunted screenshot: a grinning grey-haired realtor with white eyes in a red blazer before an apartment block, saying you're new in town

Multiple endings

House Hunted

New in town and looking to buy. The houses are hungry too.

PC

How Fish Is Made screenshot: a conveyor track running into a dark tunnel of fleshy growths and pitted lumps

How Fish Is Made

You are a sardine in a machine. Up or down?

PC

Ignited Entry key art: a firefighter silhouetted against a pink fire beside a dark house and pine trees

Ignited Entry

You ran from the fire. The house is still calling you back.

PC

In Sound Mind key art: a man in a coat with a gaping mouth of teeth for a face holds a camera, a cat on his shoulder and a pale girl beside him, against a burst of colour

In Sound Mind

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

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Isolomus key art: a green plasticine hand reaching toward a pale human finger against black

Isolomus

Twenty minutes of claymation madness, with no words and two bad endings.

PC / Linux

It Moves key art: a red, rotting face with blank white eyes and an open mouth looming over the blurred title It Moves

It Moves

A boy, a bunk bed, and nights that get stranger every time he falls asleep.

PC

Kitty Kart 64 screenshot: a pink cat in a kart on a grey road towards a bright toy-block archway, in low-poly N64 style

Kitty Kart 64

A cute kart racer where you are the only one who showed up to race.

PC / Linux

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

A small dark-haired girl standing among towering furniture and stacks of books in a gloomy room, seen from below

Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes

Little Nightmares through your own eyes, in VR.

PC / VR

Lucid Cats key art: three cat-headed figures in shirts stand in the dark beside a red wall covered in staring eyes

Lucid Cats

Fall asleep with your friends and loot a nightmare before the night ends.

PC

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