Games like The Elision Effect

If the surreal and atmospheric rhythm of The Elision Effect stuck with you, this helps. These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

PAGER
You are wetware, working a mysterious job.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Retro
89% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Subliminal
A psychological horror puzzle game where light is a tool you carry, bend and place to reshape the space around you. Explore water parks, basements and play places that are fragments of a memory, solve perspective puzzles, and avoid something that is not human. Multiple routes and endings reward looking closer at every room.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Mysterious
74% of 3,686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$9.99
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, Atmospheric, Minimalist
94% of 28,790 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 57$19.99
Eclipsium
A sunless world is eating itself, and you walk through it anyway. Eclipsium is a first-person horror journey through tombs, cathedrals of flesh and open space, guided by a pale light and the memory of Her. Its pixel-shaded world and music are the point; the walking is slow, the puzzles light, the images unforgettable.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Retro
91% of 3,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$12.99
NaissanceE
NaissanceE drops you, a woman named Lucy, into a vast monochrome megastructure that was never built for people. Explore its impossible scale, solve puzzles of light and shadow, and let the strange world play with you. A surreal, atmospheric trip that asks for curiosity first and jumping skills second.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Minimalist
84% of 4,525 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Liminal Shroud
A different kind of liminal experience. Explore surreal spaces inspired by nostalgia, discover hidden paths, and unravel a mystery that is shaped by your own mind. No monsters, no combat. Just atmosphere, discovery, and dread.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Mysterious
86% of 128 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Liminal Exit
Step into an uncanny building trapped in endless loops. Use the elevator, uncover unsettling anomalies, and evade the Entity lurking behind you. Liminal Exit is an immersive game inspired by liminal spaces and Exit 8. Explore 3 liminal space floors and track anomalies to escape, but watch your back!
Surreal, Atmospheric, Mysterious
70% of 94 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Plane Effect
Embark on a dark, dystopian isometric adventure as 'Solo,' seeking to reunite with your wife and daughter after an otherworldly, life-changing event. Solve intricate puzzles and evade an everwatching sinister presence...
Surreal, Atmospheric, Minimalist
61% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Homesick
A first-person puzzle mystery in an abandoned building. Explore by day, solve puzzles, decode a lost language and piece together what happened, then survive nightmares where darkness chases you down the same hallways. Short, slow and hauntingly beautiful.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Mysterious
77% of 1,287 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
BACK*SPACE
You have found yourself in a space that reminds you of nothing, and everything. A space of rooms, that are both comfortingly familiar, yet strangely unknown. A space of quiet and loneliness. You have found the BACK*SPACE. You aren't sure if you are alone. You aren't sure if you want to leave.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Minimalist
93% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$4.95
We Went Back
A time-looping horror game set on an abandoned space station. You wake up alone, the exit is locked, and something is in here with you. Search the looping corridors for clues, photograph what matters, and work out the password before the thing that stalks the halls finds you first. It is short, scary and built on details that shift when you are not looking.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Mysterious
85% of 4,795 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Indecision.
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Minimalist
86% of 439 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

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Seen

A lonely boy runs through a grey, hostile world with nothing but a cat and his hope.

$0.99

NeverHome Ch.1 - Hall of Apathy

Use your wits to solve puzzles and escape from an abstract world in this hand-drawn atmospheric horror game

$0.99

THE CORRIDOR

Walk down a corridor, press the button, and deal with what the game thinks about that.

$1.99

The Backrooms: Liminal Space

A short horror experience rendered with a real-time VHS filter (grain, scan lines). Freely explore the spaces of a strange yellow maze.

$0.99

Soul Axiom

From the studio that brought you Master Reboot comes a first-person story-driven adventure puzzle game, set in the beautiful, haunting cyber-world…

$1.99

Mango

A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization.

$2.79

Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling

Explore a student's shrunken world, follow her thoughts as they turn strange, and choose between three endings.

$1.99

See No Evil

See No Evil is a dark, isometric puzzle game about sound manipulation. A harsh fantasy where the willingly blind are hostile to the nonconformist.

$0.99

Faded Stories: Greenberg

Here in the city of Greenberg time is meaningless, and space is infinite. The city has endless history and yet... The whole place is fading away.

$1.74

Zenge

Slide puzzle pieces into place and unlock the wordless story of Eon, one picture at a time.

$1.99

Apartment 666

One day you wake up and realise that nobody is home. You try to exit the apartment only to wake up again in your room.You are stuck in an endless…

$1.99

Wickless: the void

A gloomy platformer in which you have to get out of the desperate consciousness of the main character.

$0.99

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BACK*SPACE

You have found yourself in a space that reminds you of nothing, and everything.

$4.95

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

Illusion Box

"Illusion Box" is the first virtual reality entertainment project of the 21st century.

$6.99

Liminal Shroud

A different kind of liminal experience. Explore surreal spaces inspired by nostalgia, discover hidden paths, and unravel a mystery that is shaped by…

$12.99

REPOSE

In the facility, each step, each shot, each mistake costs precious energy. Rendered entirely in black and white, this mystery can be unravelled.

$7.99

Eclipsium

Follow a pale light through tombs and cathedrals of flesh, piecing together the memory of Her in a sunless world.

$12.99

PAGER

You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

$9.99

TEST TEST TEST

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

Free

LIMINAL SHIFT

Liminal Shift is a unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite.

$9.99

NIDANA

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

$9.99

Disminal

wandering into the uncanny concept of liminality, captured in DV tape format you explore what seems to be another dimension, lost in an endless…

$5.99

Liminalcore

Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore.

$7.99

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