Games like Dream Escape
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It's a first-person adventure game that's not terribly scary. Players will be thrown into a variety of frightening scenarios, trying to find clues and avoid deadly traps in order to escape the dream alive.
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BAD DREAMS
Jul 24 · CREATIVE VR3D
Both: Action-Adventure · FPS · First-Person
Bad Dreams is a Solo VR Horror game with immersive gameplay based on real gesture. A unique experience, where nightmares become reality.Fight, Run, Jump, Wipe your eyes, Cover your ears... while avoiding the game's traps and puzzles, you won't come out unscathed!
ActionAdventureAction-AdventureFPSFirst-PersonCinematicNoirPsychedelicVRRealistic
-20%$7.99Escape the Backrooms
Oct 23 · Fancy Games, Blackbird Interactive
Both: Psychological Horror · First-Person
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
HorrorMultiplayerOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorCo-opSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonEscape RoomExplorationAdventure👍 137,469
-90%$3.49In Sound Mind
Sep 28 · We Create Stuff
Both: Psychological Horror · First-Person · Action-Adventure
In Sound Mind is an imaginative first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music by The Living Tombstone. Journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape—your own mind.
HorrorPsychological HorrorStory RichPuzzleActionAtmosphericSingleplayerFirst-PersonIndieAction-Adventure👍 5,467
$17.99Dreamcore
Jan 23 · Montraluz
Both: Psychological Horror · First-Person
Experience backrooms like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?
ExplorationWalking SimulatorPsychological HorrorFirst-PersonSurreal3DHorrorNonlinearRelaxingAtmospheric👍 1,881
-75%$0.99The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
May 11 · Cockroach Inc.
Both: Psychedelic · Psychological Horror
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
Point & ClickHand-drawnAdventurePuzzle2DStory RichThird PersonPsychedelicPsychological HorrorExploration👍 1,373
$6.99SERPENT AT THE VERNISSAGE
Oct 23 · a trip by daniel bock
Both: First-Person · Action-Adventure · Psychedelic
A psychedelic trip to an abandoned island paradise, where nothing is quite what it seems. Explore forgotten villas, sentient art pieces and sunken opera houses. And find your way back home before the archipelago swallows you whole.
AdventureActionFirst-PersonExplorationAction-AdventurePsychedelicSurrealAtmosphericPuzzle Platformer3D
-70%$5.09Paper Dolls: Original / 纸人
Apr 19 · Beijing Litchi Culture Media Co., Ltd.
Both: Thriller · First-Person
Paper Dolls Original is a first-person horror adventure game steeped in Eastern culture. You act a man who is separated from his daughter after a car accident. When he awakes, he finds himself in a deserted Asian mansion. Find your daughter and unveil a terrifying story buried for a hundred years
HorrorAdventureThrillerActionPuzzleIndieMultiplayerFirst-PersonDating SimSingleplayer👍 4,451
$19.99Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Sep 8 · Frictional Games
Both: Psychological Horror · First-Person
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
HorrorGorePsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorAtmosphericPuzzleFirst-PersonNudityDarkLovecraftian👍 20,429
-85%$2.69Puppet House
Oct 24 · Vecube Studio, Spirit Games Studio
Both: Psychedelic · Thriller · Psychological Horror
Puppet House is a puzzle-adventure horror with escape room elements. A freak ritual creates a killer puppet, murdering anyone who enters the ventriloquist’s mansion. Detective Rick, seeking missing locals, will soon face his greatest horror.
PsychedelicThrillerHorrorMysteryDetectiveStory RichCinematicExplorationSingleplayerPsychological Horror👍 190
$8.99Dream
Jul 31 · HyperSloth
Both: First-Person
Dream is an exploration game that takes place within the subconscious mind of Howard Phillips, a young man whose waking hours are tedious and dull, but whose dreams are lucid and powerful.
IndieAdventureExplorationWalking SimulatorAtmosphericVRFirst-PersonCasualPuzzleHorror👍 880
$5.99Dreamcore: Rabbit Hole
Apr 24 · Ankoku
Both: Psychological Horror · First-Person
Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.
ExplorationWalking SimulatorPsychological HorrorFirst-Person3DAdventureSurrealNonlinearHorrorRelaxing👍 398
-35%$0.64Close Me
Aug 9 · Yai Gameworks
Both: Psychological Horror · Psychedelic
You start the game, you wake up, and eventually you will close the game. One day, you may even start the game again. That's the game.
IndieAdventurePsychological HorrorHorrorSurrealExplorationExperimentalMysteryPsychologicalPsychedelic👍 107
-20%$27.99Visage
Oct 29 · SadSquare Studio
Both: Psychological Horror · First-Person
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
HorrorPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorDarkMultiplayerFirst-PersonSingleplayerAtmosphericAdventureIndie👍 8,750
$1.99Stray:Exotic
Jan 24 · AXing
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Action-Adventure · First-Person
Just as you are about to fall asleep, someone knocks on your door and leaves an invitation to participate in a mysterious trial. And you "volunteered" to participate in the experiment. There are only two things you need to do, and that is to survive and escape.
Action RoguelikeChoose Your Own Adventure3D PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerDungeon CrawlerRPGPuzzleAction-Adventure3DFirst-Person
$5.99Nightmares Mansion: Scary Dreams
Sep 12 · LIVDG LIMITED
Both: First-Person · Psychological Horror
Explore a scary mansion in the first-person adventure horror game. Talk to kidnapped souls, collect grimoires, and discover the hidden secret inside the many doors. Your soul was stolen, and you found yourself in the underworld. Can you escape?
HorrorSurvival HorrorPuzzleAtmosphericFirst-PersonDark ComedyPsychological HorrorSingleplayerExplorationMystery
$4.99Deadly Nightmare
Feb 9 · Electrical Eagle Studio LTD
Both: Action-Adventure · FPS · First-Person
Deadly Nightmare is an exciting and engaging Horror/Survival game where you play the role of a boy living in a big manor. You need to use all the tools at your disposal in order to explore the world, find mysteries and explore a variety of challenging, scary and supernatural locations.
AdventureCasualActionArcadeAction-AdventureExplorationFPS3DFirst-PersonRealistic
$19.99YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-
Feb 22 · KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Active Gaming Media Inc.
Both: Psychological Horror
As long as I have dreams in my heart, I can never escape. I can never awaken from my dreams. Maybe if I follow the dream just past this doorway, then someday I can wake up again...
ExplorationPuzzle PlatformerPuzzleFemale ProtagonistPlatformerPsychological HorrorHorror2.5DCuteStory Rich👍 1,350
