Games like derealization

Looking for that same surreal and story-driven spark as derealization? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Eye of Saccharine
A girl suffering from hallucinations tries her best to live a normal life in the megapolis. She sees an advertisement for a certain doctor presenting a revolutionary technology for diagnosing and treating the psyche, "G.L.A.Z.A".
Also in Visual novel · Surreal, Story-driven, Dark
72% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Summer Delusion: The Girl Only I Can See
A tropical-themed visual novel woven with romance and lingering mysteries. I met a friend—but only I can see her. The doctor insists she’s a delusion, yet she claims to be from another realm. Who can I truly trust? My choices will determine everything.
Surreal, Story-driven, Dark
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
What follows is a short, strange visual novel about existence, affection and what is real, told through hundreds of choices, surreal detours and multiple endings. Cute on the surface, unsettling underneath, and harder to shake off than its few hours suggest.
Also in Visual novel · Surreal, Story-driven, Dark
93% of 20,708 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$1.99
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
A short, strange sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk. You sit beside a girl whose mind distorts everything, talk her through the night, and try to make her a little happier. Pixel art, an oppressive soundtrack and dialogue that reads like a panic attack. One hour, many endings, and it stays with you.
Also in Visual novel · Surreal, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 21,005 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$8.99
Hazy Mind
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Also in Visual novel · Surreal, Story-driven, Dark
85% of 323 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
It gets so lonely here
A dark fairytale visual novel about a girl running through a night forest, and the three lonely strangers waiting at the end of each path. A yandere yuri story told in second person, where love and danger wear the same face and every ending arrives exactly on time.
Also in Visual novel · Surreal, Story-driven, Dark
94% of 2,402 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
DERE. Some Answers Before I...
Come back, for no one is waiting for you. Search for your memories — no one ever knew you. Destroy everything in your path — all around you are nothing but ruins. End the endless cycle, for it has long since closed in on itself.
Also in Visual novel · Surreal, Story-driven, Dark
65% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Horrific Xanatorium
A world where Spilia, a virus that causes delusions and hallucinations, has become epidemic. A horror visual novel game set in a hospital where patients are isolated.
Also in Visual novel · Surreal, Story-driven, Dark
88% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Fallstreak
A golden dream, and a closed world. A spiral staircase into the garden of the mind. What lies beyond gilded wonderland?
Also in Visual novel · Surreal, Story-driven, Dark
82% of 176 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Dissolution of the Silent Union
The silent union of two girls begins to dissolve in an abandoned high school. A melancholic and liminal short story played in a single sitting, where the fear of collapse is felt at every moment.
Also in Visual novel · Surreal, Story-driven, Dark
87% of 327 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Good Morning World
Are you sure this is reality?
Surreal, Story-driven, Dark
68% of 206 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
A girl needs to buy milk. That is the whole errand, and it is one of the hardest things she has ever done. You are the voice in her head, guiding her through a red-drenched, ten-minute spiral of wordplay, dread and fragile trust. A tiny visual novel that says more in a quarter of an hour than most games manage in twenty hours.
Also in Visual novel · Surreal, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 32,158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$1.49

Cheaper than derealization

Californium

Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K.

$0.90

DIVINATION

"What if you're born into this world without your permission?"

$0.79

One Night Stand

After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed.

$0.74

Forgotten Faces

Alice suffers from a serious illness called prosopagnosia - she can't see people's faces.

$0.74

Umfend

The glass sphere burst in the night of 1996. The world of distortion opened its gates and took away from you someone very important.

$0.89

Wire Lips

Leta’s life changed in one moment. She and her friend Lina found an old music box in the mountains... and soon Lina disappeared, leaving behind only…

$0.89

Entwined: The Visual Novel

Entwined is a visual novel horror game set in a hospital. A lockdown has occurred and no one can escape.

$0.98

A Girl A Rain

【A Girl A Rain】is a short visual novel.After pushing open the door, or perhaps before, the world has transformed.

$0.79

Psychiatrist Simulator

Have you ever wanted to be a psychiatrist? Now you can! Be a shrink for 14 days. Meet 14 patients with unique story of their lives.

$0.71

Tonight, I Die in My Sleep

Navigate broken memories in a powerless fantasy fueled equally by nightmares and confessional poetry.

$0.74

Demented

Enter the crooked world of Demented, where everything seems to be fine. But it isn't. It's up to you to find out.

$0.74

Nullwake

Nullwake is an atmospheric psychological horror with a gripping story, realistic graphics, and unexpected jump scares.

$0.89

Hidden gems like derealization

愚人船 NARRENSCHIFF

"NARRENSCHIFF" is a psychological horror puzzle game. Players take on the role of an amnesiac man who awakens in a mysterious mental hospital.

$12

Dissolution of the Silent Union

The silent union of two girls begins to dissolve in an abandoned high school.

$2.99

Without a Dawn

Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.

$7.99

outside the door

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.

$1.99

You Shouldn't Be Here

This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light.

$1.99

NIDANA

She continues to dream. A first-person dream simulator where you explore a corner of a dream.

$9.99

q.u.q.

You follow a crude girl and her enormous gun across a dying desert, through nine endings of weird, funny and quietly sad story.

$1.99

It gets so lonely here

Run through a night forest, choose your path, and meet the three strangers waiting at the end of each one.

Free

Sister Other Paranoia

A dark visual novel by acclaimed creator nyalra. Overly sensitive to other people's emotions, the protagonist—a light novel writer—develops the…

$9.99

Hazy Mind

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

$9.99

Decarnation

Play as a cabaret dancer whose life spirals into a surreal horror of dreams, monsters and a captor's cell.

$14.99

Mandemon

Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.

$2.99

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