Games like Knock Harder: Useless

Want something that feels surreal and mysterious the way Knock Harder: Useless does? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

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When you sleep, you are dreaming. Some dreams are beautiful and vivid, the others are strange, and the rest of them are horrible... We've having them all the night, and then wake up and forget them. But what if one day your "awakening" would be a difficult task? Could you find a way out of the dreams and wake up?
Surreal, Mysterious
79% of 260 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Knock-knock
A sleepless Lodger, a cabin that rearranges itself at night, and Guests knocking on every door. Fix the lights, find the clocks, hide from what walks the rooms, and hold onto your sanity until dawn. A hand-drawn horror puzzle box that explains nothing and gets under your skin.
Surreal, Mysterious, Tense
88% of 1,626 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Bad Dream: Coma
A point & click trip through a hand-drawn nightmare where nothing is quite right and every click counts. You can't die here, but the dream remembers what you do, and it shapes how your story ends. Short, strange and quietly disturbing, with endings worth coming back for.
Surreal, Mysterious, Tense
91% of 1,975 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$2.24
Dream
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.
Surreal, Mysterious, Dark
55% of 884 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Lucid Dream
A point and click horror about a girl who falls asleep as usual and wakes trapped in a dream: a laboratory where terrible experiments once took place. Collect items, solve puzzles, follow the clues through a maze-like nightmare and uncover the truth of the past, in a short, atmospheric story that ends somewhere unexpectedly tender.
Surreal, Mysterious, Tense
91% of 1,030 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Have a Nice Dream
A short pixel game about a girl who wakes up in a pink room she does not recognize. A strange man says he is going out to buy her favorite bear biscuits. Explore the weird house, solve mild puzzles, and find out what this place really is. It starts unsettling and ends somewhere warmer.
Surreal, Mysterious, Tense
92% of 4,933 Steam reviews are positiveFree
梦乡 The Dreamcatcher
The Dreamcatcher is a single player first person psychological adventure set in the modern times. You play as a young man who has just started his life in a big city. You will adventure into different dream worlds, overcome obstacles in the dreams with the help from outside the dreams.
Surreal, Mysterious, Dark
80% of 87 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Yume Nikki
A girl sleeps, and you wander her dreams. Yume Nikki has no goals, no dialogue and no fights: just strange worlds, looping music and things that watch you. Find hidden Effects, get thoroughly lost, and decide for yourself what any of it means. One of the strangest, quietest games ever made.
Surreal, Mysterious, Dark
94% of 10,784 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 58Free
Afterdream
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Surreal, Mysterious, Tense
91% of 308 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Superliminal
A first-person puzzle game where perspective is the mechanic: pick up an object, look at it from the right angle, and it grows huge in your hands. You wander through a dream that keeps rewriting its own rules, guided by a well-meaning doctor and an AI that would rather you stayed. Weird, funny, and genuinely surprising.
Surreal, Mysterious, Scary
94% of 28,790 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 78$19.99
Hypnagogia² 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams
Meet colorful characters, discover mysterious secrets, and reassemble the fractured remains of an ethereal crystal as you explore a series of abstract worlds based on dreams, nightmares, and the places in between.
Surreal, Mysterious, Dark
95% of 728 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Close Me
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.
Surreal, Mysterious, Tense
78% of 108 Steam reviews are positive$0.99

Hidden gems like Knock Harder: Useless

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

Time To Wake Up

You're stuck in a dream. Blink and change your surroundings to escape the shadows of your past.

$14.99

NIDANA

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

$9.99

Afterdream

Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction.

$10.99

Dreamcore: Rabbit Hole

Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.

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Hypnagogia² 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams

Meet colorful characters, discover mysterious secrets, and reassemble the fractured remains of an ethereal crystal as you explore a series of…

$9.99

SLEEP AWAKE

In the last known city on Earth, people are disappearing in their sleep. Those who remain exist in a crisis of reckless experiments to keep awake.

$19.99

Happy Game

A little boy falls asleep into a horrible nightmare. Happy Game sends you in after him, through three of them, dragging and poking your way past…

$14.99

Lucid Dream

A point and click horror where a girl trapped in a dream searches a strange laboratory for clues, items and a way to wake up.

Free

Knock Harder

The only way to wake up is to die. The player must decide for himself whether he is inside a dream or is in reality.

$9.99

Have a Nice Dream

Explore a strange house, solve small puzzles and uncover why you woke up in it.

Free

DARQ: Complete Edition

Guide a boy through his own nightmare by bending physics, rotating rooms and staying out of sight.

$19.99

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Step into Inky’s sleep — a haunting yet enchanting 2D horror-adventure with surreal touches, led by an endearing little cat.

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Time To Wake Up

You're stuck in a dream. Blink and change your surroundings to escape the shadows of your past.

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7 Days To Think About It

A short psychological horror game where your friends invite you to hang out tonight — you have 7 days to think about it.

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Dreamcore: Rabbit Hole

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Mama's Sleeping Angels

Scavenge cursed objects through shifting dreamworlds with up to three friends, sneaking past what sleeps and shooting when it wakes.

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SLEEP AWAKE

In the last known city on Earth, people are disappearing in their sleep. Those who remain exist in a crisis of reckless experiments to keep awake.

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Strange Dream

You are trapped in a strange dream from which there is no waking.

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NIDANA

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

$9.99

Nightmare Journey

You’re on a bus, caught in a cycle of shifting nightmares. escape the horrors, and reach the station awake and alive.

$1.99

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.

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Home_0

You are trapped in a memory of your past. Observe your surrounding carefully to end your nightmare.

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冬眠（hibernation）

“Dormancy” is a unique survival game where players are summoned to a frozen dream.

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