Games like Darwin's Test

If Darwin's Test left you wanting something mysterious and surreal, you have options. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

The Turing Test
A first-person puzzle game on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Engineer Ava Turing wakes to find the ground crew missing, and a station AI named Tom waiting. To reach the truth you solve tests that, he insists, only a human can pass. A short, philosophical mystery with a soundtrack worth sitting still for.
Mysterious, Surreal, Emotional
87% of 6,255 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
.T.E.S.T: Expected Behaviour — Sci-Fi 3D Puzzle Quest
.T.E.S.T: Expected Behavior is a first-person brain twister with a sci-fi plot. On top of logic, you'll need a fast reaction speed, "outside the box" reasoning, and the skill to adapt to unfamiliar situations.
Mysterious, Surreal
72% of 72 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
TEST TEST TEST
A retro pixel-art puzzle adventure about an overworked office employee stuck in a 15-minute time loop. Gather clues, crack cryptic puzzles and follow leads that reach beyond the game itself, into your browser. Short, clever and surprisingly tense: a mystery that treats your brain kindly and your sleep schedule less so.
Mysterious, Surreal, Story-driven
91% of 1,031 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Talos Principle
A first-person puzzle game about a robot waking in a world of ancient ruins and strange technology, told to solve over 120 puzzles by a voice calling itself Elohim. Lasers, drones, time tricks and a lot of philosophy. Come for the brainteasers, stay because the questions follow you home.
Mysterious, Surreal, Emotional
95% of 29,399 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 110$29.99
Disoriented
A first-person puzzle game. Simply walk to the door.
Surreal, Minimalist, Atmospheric
81% of 389 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
An Unfinished Game
Welcome to the Unfinished Game™ Testing facility! As our new tester, you will have to make your way through a series of unexpected experiments in this first-person adventure. Small puzzles, platforming, meta gameplay and a group of silly NPC awaits you in this unpredictable factory.
Mysterious, Surreal
100% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Tested on Humans: Escape Room
You are the test subject. In this dark environment escape room, you have to solve various puzzles to escape from the research center where you are trapped. Can you find out how you got there and escape???
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
87% of 439 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Title_Pending
Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title). Not only that, you'll get to talk with the Lead Developer of the project, Matthew Stanton, who will give insight on his team's creative process.
Mysterious, Surreal, Story-driven
95% of 423 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Dofamine
You must explore the labyrinth of riddles and investigate the apocalyptic event at the research facility following the experiments with the Higgs boson, or “the God particle”.
Mysterious, Surreal, Story-driven
80% of 221 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Trapped in a forest cabin, your only way out is a strange computer game its owner offers you. But the traps inside the game start appearing in the cabin, and what you do in one world changes the other. A first-person escape room with a deadly twist, multiple endings and many ways to die.
Mysterious, Surreal, Story-driven
95% of 1,566 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
The Testing Chamber
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Mysterious, Surreal, Emotional
96% of 696 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Viewfinder
Viewfinder hands you an instant camera with a strange rule: place a photo in the world and it becomes real. A picture of a bridge turns into a bridge. A painting turns into a room you can walk into. Reshape surreal worlds to solve gentle puzzles and uncover what happened to the people who built them.
Mysterious, Surreal, Emotional
94% of 12,398 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 70$24.99

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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

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No Players Online

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TEST TEST TEST

Play an office worker trapped in a 15-minute time loop, solving cryptic puzzles with clues that lead outside the game.

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[ECHOSTASIS]

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Rivage

Solve the station's mechanisms one by one and piece together what happened to the crew.

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The Tartarus Key

There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her…

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Title_Pending

Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title).

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The Testing Chamber

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The Entropy Centre

Rewind broken rooms back into working order with a time-reversing device, and work your way toward the heart of a failing space station.

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Viewfinder

Solve gentle puzzles by reshaping surreal worlds with a camera that makes pictures real, and uncover the story of the people who built them.

$24.99

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Darwin's Paradox!

Darwin is a clever little octopus yanked from the ocean into a vast industrial complex, and he wants out.

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No Players Online

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.

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An Unfinished Game

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Do Not Press The Button (Or You'll Delete The Multiverse)

A first-person, narrative-driven game featuring The Developer, who questions, taunts, and tests you at every turn.

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Lab Rat

A metrics-obsessed AI will monitor, profile, and entertain you as you progress through over a hundred genre-bending puzzles in this delightfully…

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Moral Dilemma: The Interview

Answer absurd moral questions, wander a shifting office and talk your way through a hiring process that keeps bending the rules.

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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

Trapped in a forest cabin, your only way out is a strange computer game its owner offers you.

$14.99

[ECHOSTASIS]

THE AWARD-WINNING CONCLUSION TO THE [ENIGMA] TRILOGY, [ECHOSTASIS] presents a world where our reality is not only curated by algorithms, but created…

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TEST TEST TEST

Play an office worker trapped in a 15-minute time loop, solving cryptic puzzles with clues that lead outside the game.

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THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE: Director's Cut

Dr. Herman, your sci-fi journey begins. Armed only with your mind and the Manipulator that operates with different types of energy, you'll have to…

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