Best Surreal Games on Steam
Games with dream logic, strange imagery, impossible spaces, or uncanny events.
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1Inscryption - Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Oct 19, 2021
In this game, you can…
- have the game reach outside itself to use your actual files and even turn your Steam friends into cards.
- watch the whole game abruptly switch from a 3D tabletop in a cabin to a Game Boy-style pixel world mid-story.
- pull a dagger at the table, then fight the moon as a final boss when the rules say that should be impossible.
- get trapped in a remote cabin, play cards for your life, then stand up and solve the room's secrets between rounds.
- sacrifice squirrels and other creatures to summon bigger beasts, making each turn about timing, placement, and painful choices.
- finish the story and still keep discovering secret rooms, hidden dialogue paths, and new interactions by poking around.
- unlock a replayable roguelite mode with endless runs, new challenges, and modifiers that change how every run plays.
- accidentally build a combo deck that suddenly becomes absurdly overpowered and snowballs into a runaway win condition.
2DELTARUNE - Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-5 are available now, with more planned as free updates!
Jun 4, 2025
In this game, you can…
- play a funny skeleton fight song on piano, then get run over by a dog driving a golf cart
- shop for a new TV by debating "groovy vs glooby" with the janitor, pulling out a diagram, buying it, and learning it's glooby
- fight battles that suddenly turn into punch-out against a giant robot, then switch into wario-ware-style minigames the next chapter
- keep picking "hug ralsei" in battle until it becomes your whole strategy
- heal yourself with a hammer, flirt with a watercooler, and swim through an acid lake
- stumble into secret bosses and a hidden route that changes the tone into something genuinely eerie
- graze bullets on purpose to build power faster while the battle box shifts and moves around you
- return to town and see the game acknowledge whether you chose to act kindly or fight
3Disco Elysium - The Final Cut - Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Oct 15, 2019
In this game, you can…
- wake up with no memory and have your necktie talk to you
- set up a nightclub and drug lab in an abandoned church during a homicide investigation
- hunt a creature unknown to science and eventually meet the Insulindian Phasmid
- listen to 24 inner voices argue and vote on what you do next
- fail key checks and get new scenes and dialogue instead of a reload screen
- solve a murder while also tracking down your own name, badge, shoes, and lost past
- talk to the city like it's a living thing that whispers history through you
- shape your politics through play and still get called a liberal by the biggest communist you meet
4Hotline Miami - Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Oct 23, 2012
In this game, you can…
- slam a door into someone and kill them instantly.
- choose a mask before a level that changes how you play, like silent guns, faster movement, surviving one bullet, or killing with doors.
- pummel someone down, grab their dropped shotgun a split second later, and wipe the rest of the room before it reacts.
- die in one hit, restart instantly, and run the same floor until you've memorized patrol routes, gun reactions, and weapon spawns.
- bait enemies with noise, burst into rooms while they're facing away, and clear an entire floor using what you've learned from repeats.
- chain fast kills into huge combos and score grades, pushing for 20x streaks and top ranks.
- finish a massacre, then walk back to your car in silence after the music cuts out, with the level suddenly feeling empty.
5Buckshot Roulette - Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Apr 4, 2024
In this game, you can…
- saw off the shotgun mid-match to double the damage on the next blast.
- shoot yourself on purpose to try to earn an extra turn if it's a blank.
- steal an item from the dealer with an adrenaline shot and immediately use their own tool against them.
- handcuff the other player so they have to sit there and take it.
- reveal the next shell with a magnifying glass, then still have to gamble on the rest of the hidden order.
- chain cuffs, beer, and shell checks to steal turns and force a clean kill or a fatal self-shot.
- win a round, then choose to cash out or keep risking everything for double-or-nothing again and again.
- play at a 4-player table where everyone drinks, smokes, bluffs, and betrays each other while the shotgun keeps coming back around.
6GRIS - Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
Dec 13, 2018
In this game, you can…
- turn into a literal square.
- paint platforms into existence with light to make your own path.
- survive being chased by nightmarish figures in scenes that feel dangerous, even though the game has no normal death state.
- restore color to a dead black-and-white world, and watch new routes and spaces appear as it comes back.
- get shoved around by hostile wind, then become heavy as a cube to force your way forward.
- flip gravity and platform while the whole world reorients around you.
- gain new movement powers as your dress changes, from double-jumping to swimming, dolphin-like dashes, and gliding.
- reach an ending where you sing as darkness closes in, and a second voice finally sings back with you.
7DEATH STRANDING - From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an all-new, genre-defying experience. Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the disconnected remnants of our future in his hands, he embarks on a journey to reconnect the shattered world one step at a time.
Jul 14, 2020
In this game, you can…
- build highways and zipline networks, then watch other players use them and feed resources back into your infrastructure.
- leave ladders, ropes, bridges, and chargers in the world for other players to use later.
- carry a living baby in a pod on your chest and soothe it when it gets stressed during rough travel.
- haul towering stacks of cargo across open wilderness.
- wear powered exoskeletons and armor plates that change your balance, speed, and how much weight you can haul over rough terrain.
- stumble into Half-Life crossover deliveries and equipment inside the same delivery-focused world.
8OneShot - OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Dec 8, 2016
In this game, you can…
- solve puzzles by opening folders on your computer and reading files the game plants outside its own window.
- put the protagonist to bed, have the game close itself, then reopen it to continue from a dream sequence.
- finish what seems like the ending, then discover a changed second run where the game and its installation behave differently.
- carry a lightbulb that works as the world's sun all the way to a tower.
- talk to a child who addresses you directly and treats you like their god.
- replay to unlock a hidden route that only appears after the world reshapes itself post-credits.
- reach a final dilemma where you must pick between two outcomes that both feel like betraying someone you care about.
9Chained Together - Climb up from the depths of Hell. Scale various worlds solo or chained together with your friends in the 1-4 player platforming sensation.
Jun 19, 2024
In this game, you can…
- use the chain as a real tool that wraps, swings, snags on platforms, and lets you counterbalance, catch a falling teammate, or haul them up.
- jump from a flaming frying pan onto a flying radiator while you're still physically chained to your partner.
- play a mode where rising lava chases you upward, so you have to keep climbing fast or get engulfed.
- start chained together in Hell and climb up through totally different worlds, from molten pits to forests, ruins, and sky-high areas.
- jump at the wrong time and yank your whole team off a ledge, dragging everyone with you in one shared fall.
- dangle from the chain while your partners climb and pull, then swap roles when someone else becomes the weak link sliding off platforms.
- hit spots where the route needs more than one body, forcing your group to position yourselves and move together to get past.
10LIMBO - Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
Aug 2, 2011
In this game, you can…
- drag a corpse into water so it bloats into a stepping stone.
- tear off a giant spider's leg, then use its body as a movable shield to block spikes and reach a ledge.
- get a brain slug attached that forces you to walk one direction until you hit a light, then it flips you back.
- flip a gravity switch and keep solving puzzles as the whole world turns upside down.
- race rising water by repositioning floating crates and other objects to build a path before you drown.
- escape humans hunting you with spears and darts while you can't fight back.
- work factory machines and navigate gears, hatches, and crushers where the environment is the puzzle.
- unlock a secret level that's almost entirely dark, then navigate by sound, light, and moving objects without any text.
