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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$6.99Backrooms Rec.
Mar 6 · Liminal Logic
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · FPS · First-Person
Dive into the mysteries of the Backrooms with a solo-developed survival game. Explore eerie hallways, uncover secrets alone or in multiplayer (up to 6 players), and take on unique challenges.
MultiplayerOnline Co-OpSurvival HorrorHorrorChoose Your Own AdventureFPSFirst-PersonLocal MultiplayerPsychological HorrorAction-Adventure👍 1,832
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
$19.99Superliminal
Nov 5 · Pillow Castle
Both: First-Person · Thriller · Psychedelic
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
PuzzleFirst-PersonSurrealPsychologicalPhysicsSingleplayerThrillerStory RichPsychedelicPsychological Horror👍 28,436
-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
$3.99V696
Jan 11 · Veysel Çınar
Both: First-Person · Psychological Horror · Thriller
V696 is a first-person horror-thriller game. It contains a cult subject of veiled beings. Even if everything seems clear at first glance, it has a gripping story that will throw you a curve.
First-PersonPsychological HorrorThrillerHidden ObjectExplorationPsychologicalFPSStory RichInteractive FictionHorror👍 115
$4.99Nightmare of Decay
May 3 · Checkmaty
Both: FPS · First-Person · Action-Adventure
A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.
HorrorActionSurvival HorrorFPSZombies1990'sFirst-PersonRetroIndieAction-Adventure👍 4,249
-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
$7.99No Return
Aug 2 · BlameTech
Both: Psychological Horror · First-Person · Thriller
No Return is a first-person psychological horror game set in modern-day China. With a focus on family tragedy, the story unfolds as our protagonist is mysteriously prevented from returning home by an unseen force. Can he navigate a nightmarish maze of hallways and uncover the disturbing truth?
HorrorPsychological HorrorFirst-PersonThrillerAtmosphericSupernaturalPuzzleExplorationWalking SimulatorImmersive👍 412
$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
$9.99SILENT BREATH
Aug 20 · EXODIAC STUDIOS
Both: Psychological Horror · Thriller · First-Person
Unpredictable horrors lurk around every corner, forcing you to find the missing people while desperately clinging to survival. In this experience even your own mind can become your enemy. Stay vigilant and keep your voice hushed, or risk becoming another victim of the forest's darkness
HorrorPsychological HorrorThriller1990'sRealisticMultiplayerDarkFirst-PersonExplorationEarly Access👍 1,125
-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
$3.99Return the Backrooms
Nov 10 · Skmaestro
Both: FPS · First-Person · Psychological Horror
Return the Backrooms is a Co-op horror game for 1-4 players where you can have a great time with your friends. Think, Explore, Wander, find the key items and try to escape. but be careful because something is lurking in the dark...
Early AccessExplorationFPSPuzzlePvEFirst-PersonHorror3DPsychological HorrorLinear👍 109
$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
$9.99Backrooms: Escape Together
Oct 18 · Triiodide Studios
Both: Psychological Horror · First-Person
A visually lifelike co-op horror game for 1-6 people. Journey through 11 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.
MultiplayerHorrorOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorCo-opAtmosphericFirst-PersonRealisticEarly Access👍 42,321
$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
$0.99House of Evil
Dec 20 · VikTor
Both: FPS · Action-Adventure · First-Person
House of Evil - atmospheric survival horror with a first-person view, in which you can test your nerves for strength. The events take place in the mansion that exists in reality. The main character is an ordinary philistine, his wife is an exorcist, after an unusual telephone conversation, the protagonist can not call to the spouse, and...
ExplorationMystery DungeonFPSPuzzlePvEShooterAction-Adventure3DFirst-PersonHorror
$9.99PANICORE
May 31 · ZTEK Studio
Both: Psychological Horror · First-Person
PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.
HorrorOnline Co-OpSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorCo-opMultiplayerFirst-PersonPvEStealthAtmospheric👍 10,746
$2.99KunKun dream Startles the Soul
Jun 24 · AIKUN
Both: First-Person · Psychological Horror
Multiplayer , yes! You have been trapped in KunKun's dream, you and your trapped companions have to find a way to escape and avoid these Grotesque Object! Grotesque Objectlike playing basketball and worship chickens, hate watermelons, and even come Let me see
Online Co-OpHorrorFirst-PersonDating SimSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorStory RichFunnyMultiplayerMultiple Endings👍 427
-50%$3.99迷离诡夜 blurred weird night
Nov 16 · QSN
Both: FPS
I thought it was a comedy, but it turned out to be a tragedy. If there's a chance to go back in time and change something that would cause lifelong regret, would you fight with all you have? (Including story mode and zombie mode)
3DSexual ContentHorrorExplorationFPSDating SimAdventureNudityImmersive SimWalking Simulator👍 313
-21%$5.52Mists of Aiden
Nov 10 · Steppe Hare Studio
Both: Psychological Horror · First-Person
Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.
HorrorAdventureIndieViolentActionPsychological HorrorFirst-PersonAtmosphericMysteryWalking Simulator👍 981
$9.99Exit From
Apr 16 · White Box, Elendely
Both: Psychological Horror · First-Person
Exit From - is a first-person horror-stealth game with quest and procedural generation elements where you have to get out of the old Soviet house, which changes every new game.
HorrorPsychological HorrorAtmosphericMysteryRealisticPhysicsStealthFirst-Person3DExploration👍 490
$9.99Escape From Lavender Island
Aug 31 · Jeremy Couillard, Chris Parrello
Both: Action-Adventure · First-Person
Explore a dream that refuses to end. As Zede Aksis, wander a surreal city that feels both alive and liminal, filled with digital citizens and absurd infrastructure. Can you find an escape? A way out of a world that remembers you better than you remember it?
ExplorationHidden ObjectWalking SimulatorAction-Adventure3DFirst-PersonThird PersonAlternate HistoryDark ComedyFunny👍 197
$2.99Metel - Horror Escape
Aug 31 · Linked Squad
Both: First-Person
Metel - Horror Escape is a first-person 3D game in the quest, horror genre. Welcome to the home of an insane maniac hungry for new blood and suffering! You are a victim in his hands. Be careful trying to find a way out. The maniac should not notice your escape attempt.
HorrorIndiePuzzleFirst-Person3DHidden ObjectSurvival HorrorActionInvestigationExploration👍 2,305


