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Surreal horror games on Steam

76 surreal horror games on Steam, 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.

76 games

All surreal horror games on steam

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lucid Dream key art: a girl asleep in bed under a blanket, bathed in blue night light

Lucid Dream

Fall asleep, wake inside a ruined laboratory, and find the way back out.

PC

Mama's Sleeping Angels art: four players in Y2K outfits stand in a dark graffiti room beneath a red, tangled creature

Mama's Sleeping Angels

Feed Mama cursed objects from her dreams, or feed her yourselves.

PC

Manny's key art: a lone fast food restaurant with a red roof and glowing sign stands on a dark island among palm trees at night

Manny's

A starving castaway, a desert island, and a fast food place that opens only at night.

PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox

Meat Girl screenshot: a pale girl with a halo and a white dress beside a snowy wood, saying yes, we are very close

Meat Girl

Look for your missing roommate in winter mountains full of meat.

PC / Browser / Mac / Linux

Midnight Snack key art: a lamp lighting a patch of grass and rocks in a dark low-poly forest

Midnight Snack

Find a snack in a nightmare, steering with the dials of a microwave.

PC

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk key art: a close-up of the girl's wide eyes in purple and dark red pixels

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Help a girl buy milk, as the voice inside her troubled head.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk screenshot: the red-eyed girl in a black sweater looks worried in her dark apartment, with red windows behind her

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

The girl got her milk. Now help her get through the night.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

A towering gate of bone and sinew with a green glow, surrounded by giant bone pillars and gravestones under an orange sky

Necrophosis

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

PC

Neverending Nightmares key art: a man holding a red candle while a pale woman with bleeding red eyes reaches for him from behind

Neverending Nightmares

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

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone

Nevermind: a wall of countless screaming human faces around a bare tree in red light

Nevermind

Explore a trauma patient's mind while the game watches your fear.

PC / Mac / VR

Nox Timore: rows of grey mannequins on poles standing in white fog, with the game's title on the floor

Nox Timore

Mannequins, dark hallways, and a nightmare that comes back every night.

PC

OFF key art: a swarm of pale purple ghosts with varied faces pouring over dark purple buildings

OFF

Guide the Batter on a sacred mission to purify a world of specters.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Guides

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