Popular surreal games
Reality feels loose across these picks, from tidying a strange old house in Servant of the Lake to preparing old recipes that turn into ritual in Cucina Stellata and guiding a boy through a colorful world in Endacopia. You solve odd puzzles, wander unusual rooms and talk with locals who never quite make sense.
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Can 'Em All
A truck drops off a batch of adorable creatures. They are also your income. Shoot them, vacuum up the bodies, crush them into cans and sell the lot, then reinvest in bigger guns, faster conveyors and more automation. A short, funny, physics-driven incremental game about running the least ethical factory in sci-fi.
97% of 1,819 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,906$6.99Order of the Sinking Star
A huge puzzle adventure from Jonathan Blow and Thekla: over 1000 hand-crafted puzzles across four strange worlds that slowly collide. Push stones, bend light, swap with mirrors, play a queen, a thief and a talking boat, and untangle a mystery that grows with every rule you learn.
96% of 3,472 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,687$29.99CRACK
There is an egg. It is very big. Your job is to crack it open, and nobody in this laboratory wants to explain why. CRACK is a 1-4 player co-op incremental adventure about chipping away at a mysterious egg, upgrading your tools, unlocking hidden rooms and slowly finding out what is inside. Funny, strange and best with friends.
91% of 1,958 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,117$7.99Playrooms
Someone has to put 200,000 balls back into the ball pits, and the job fell to you. Collect, scoop, unlock new rooms, and when your shift ends and the lights go out one by one, stay in the light. A cleaning job with something almost no one else in it.
96% of 310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,631$5.59CONTROL Resonant
CONTROL Resonant is a third-person action RPG sequel starring Dylan Faden, fighting through a warped Manhattan as reality breaks down. With a shapeshifting melee weapon, strange gravity puzzles, and a thick supernatural atmosphere, it is worth playing for its distorted city and paranatural fights.
91% of 14,685 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,283$47.99Silver Pines
A private detective searches a half-abandoned town for a vanished musician in this hand-drawn survival horror metroidvania. Scavenge bullets and medicine, solve puzzles, and fight or slip past nightmarish monsters as locked doors open into stranger parts of Silver Pines.
95% of 5,253 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 632$24.99Invokyr
A cursed 1970s board game has trapped you and five friends in a groaning house, and the only way out is to play. You roll, something hunts you, and you scramble back to the board to roll again. Funny, tense, and built for a full group night.
93% of 1,383 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,559$12.99Message From Aliens
In 2058, symbols arrive from space, and the whole game is written in them. Decode an alien language of over 1,000 glyphs, starting with their numbers and working up to their poetry and jokes. No hand-holding, no hints: just you, your notes, and the slow joy of a page of nonsense turning into meaning.
95% of 337 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 584$9.99SULFUR
SULFUR is a first-person action-adventure with roguelike runs and extraction stakes: push through caverns, sewers and castle walls, trick mean enemies, grab loot, and get out alive with your guns intact. The draw is the tinkering, as oils, enchantments and attachments turn ordinary firearms into strange personal builds.
87% of 10,871 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,724$29.99Mycopunk
Cut through fungal aliens as a robot reject hired by the SAXON corporation. You pick absurd weapons, cram mods into a grid until they turn brilliant or broken, and run planet-side missions solo or in 4-player co-op, with a roach man waiting back on the ship.
88% of 4,858 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,350$14.99Well Dweller
A dark fairy-tale metroidvania starring Glimmer, a tiny bird armed with a single matchstick. Burn the wicked queen, rescue your snatched siblings and befriend the oddballs hiding in a rotted kingdom. Hand-drawn, gently spooky and made to be finished in a few cozy evenings.
97% of 4,328 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 215$15.99GONE Fishing
GONE Fishing is a 1-8 player survival horror about fishing to stay alive. You cast, cook and sell your catch, then feed the lake its daily sacrifice before it feeds on you. Goofy, tense and best with friends.
90% of 3,372 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 532$9.99
