Games like Diatribes

Miss the atmospheric and surreal pull of Diatribes? These games could fill that gap nicely.

MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!
Atmospheric, Surreal, Story-driven
62% of 858 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Assembly
A first-person interactive story inspired by real-world anxieties, The Assembly is a long-form game designed for VR. Explore a morally ambiguous organization as two individuals and face tough decisions from contrasting perspectives, that culminate in one of multiple thrilling conclusions.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Emotional
70% of 134 Steam reviews are positive$10.49
DeepStates [VR]
DeepStates [VR] - Experiences designed to calm your mind and drift away. Wind down in compelling natural sceneries with dense atmospheres. Please note: Development for DeepStates is discontinued.
Atmospheric, Surreal, Relaxing
87% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Reaching for Petals: VR Edition
Rebuilt for VR, Reaching for Petals is a poetic adventure about love, loss, and ambition. You will travel to the peak of the ever-reaching mountain to uncover the true nature of your mysterious and seemingly unguided journey.
Atmospheric, Surreal, Story-driven
63% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Sometimes to Deal with the Difficulty of Being Alive, I Need to Believe There Is a Possibility That Life Is Not Real.
Wander through a shifting simulation that feels both tragic and hilarious. Observe, interact, or simply exist as the world reshapes around you — a meditative, overstimulated reflection on what it means to keep going when everything’s falling apart.
Atmospheric, Surreal, Story-driven
87% of 108 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
DOMINO The Little One
DOMINO: The Little One, a hand-drawn 2D adventure game, invites you to traverse a realm where the perils of global warming and ecological catastrophe manifest as monstrous entities, and the only weapon at your disposal is your wit and will to make a change.
Atmospheric, Surreal, Story-driven
81% of 144 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Journey For Elysium
Journey for Elysium is a story-driven VR game that will immerse you in a fictional setting inspired by Ancient Mythology. Use your wit & skills to overcome a series of increasingly elaborate challenges to reach Elysium and obtain redemption.
Atmospheric, Surreal, Story-driven
82% of 56 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Irreversible
Irreversible is an immersive single-player VR narrative-driven adventure featuring branching dialogues, exploration of uncanny desert mysteries and shooter elements. Communicate via radio with your colleague Anna and face off against the local fauna in your struggle to make your way back home.
Atmospheric, Surreal, Story-driven
93% of 42 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The Climate Trail
The Climate Trail is about climate refugees fleeing ever-worsening conditions after inaction on climate has rendered much of the USA (and the world) uninhabitable. The game combines the adventure and play of the journey north with visual novel elements.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Emotional
69% of 16 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Verse VR
Immerse yourself in beautiful landscapes full of poetry, music, and art from around the world. Relax in a Chinese garden, explore the ruins of a mythical land, discover the joy of a West African village, and lose yourself in a Victorian conservatory. Welcome to a VR experience unlike any other.
Atmospheric, Surreal, Relaxing
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Nature Treks VR
Latest Update: Animal Kingdom. Explore tropical beaches, underwater oceans and even take to the stars. Discover over 60 different animals. Command the weather, take control of the night or create and shape your own world. Relax and immerse yourself into the Nature Treks VR experience.
Atmospheric, Relaxing
82% of 283 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
SEASON: A letter to the future
Ride a bicycle through a world on the edge of its final season, photographing, recording and writing down everything before it is gone. A gentle, story-rich trip through beautiful landscapes, meeting people who each have one story left to tell.
Atmospheric, Surreal, Story-driven
93% of 1,848 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99

Cheaper than Diatribes

Sometimes to Deal with the Difficulty of Being Alive, I Need to Believe There Is a Possibility That Life Is Not Real.

Wander through a shifting simulation that feels both tragic and hilarious.

$0.99

A Writer And His Daughter

VR story exploration game. A young girl discovers a magical fairy tale world and has to decide which world she wants to stay in.

$1.99

Everything is going to be OK

"Everything is going to be OK" is a desktop labyrinth of vignettes, poetry, strange fever dream games, and broken digital spaces.

$1.99

The Cloud VR

"This way. I'm waiting for you." The Cloud VR is a healing fantasy VR game where you go on an adventure to meet someone waiting for you.

$0.99

Fallen Spirit

Find the surface, free the Light.

$1.99

Whispers from Within: Moving On

You are the main character in this Twilight Zone-inspired experience. Tragedy has struck your family, but you must find a way to move on.

$1.99

A Butterfly

The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner.

$0.99

Californium

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

$0.90

fiction.colors

Endless subway rides, void probes, cosmic gardens and the fate of a planet, fiction.colors is a series of short atmospheric experiences to explore…

$1.99

Breath

This is a VR game that guides players to breathe and meditate.

$0.99

Adventures in the Light & Dark

Enter a living novel in VR. Embark on an atmospheric journey of mystery, unease, and humor, where every page pulls you deeper into the unknown.

$1.99

The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is

The first step that you never knew you needed to take to get to wherever you're wanting to go...

$1.99

Hidden gems like Diatribes

NIDANA

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

$9.99

SEASON: A letter to the future

Ride, photograph and record a fading world at your own unhurried pace, one story at a time.

$24.99

DOMINO The Little One

DOMINO: The Little One, a hand-drawn 2D adventure game, invites you to traverse a realm where the perils of global warming and ecological…

Free

Paper Beast

An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance.

$19.99

Wanderer

Built from the ground up for VR, Wanderer has a unique blend of escape room style puzzles, tactile hands on interactions and action arcade sequences…

$39.99

Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between

Glitchhikers is a surreal journey through the spaces between places.

$12.99

Sometimes to Deal with the Difficulty of Being Alive, I Need to Believe There Is a Possibility That Life Is Not Real.

Wander through a shifting simulation that feels both tragic and hilarious.

$0.99

Far from Noise

Far from Noise is a narrative set on the edge of a cliff, where two characters discuss what it means to balance between life and death.

$7.99

Nature Treks VR

Latest Update: Animal Kingdom. Explore tropical beaches, underwater oceans and even take to the stars. Discover over 60 different animals.

$9.99

Vane

In a ruined desert, a strange golden dust transforms a free-spirited bird into a determined young child, setting off a chain of events that will…

$19.99

Shape of the World

A serene first person exploration game in a surreal, organic world that reacts to your presence.

$12.99

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition

Walk a lonely Hebridean island while fragments of a letter unfold a story of love, loss and guilt, with a soundtrack that stays with you.

$9.99

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