Games like Dreams of Pain
If Dreams of Pain is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Space Bar, Cataplexy and Superliminal — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Dreams of Pain: Dreams of Pain is a highly experimental first-person point-and-click experience. The game delivers a strange story about the declining attention spans of modern people. Storytelling involves alternate reality game aspects. The game is extremely difficult.
Players who liked Dreams of Pain also play
Steam players who put hours into Dreams of Pain also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
The Space Bar
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dreams of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
Play as Alias Node, a human detective working on planet, Armpit VI. Your assignment? Catch a shifty criminal, wanted for grand theft and murder, before whatever it is, escapes to another world!
Cataplexy
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dreams of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
Waking up at night, the main character realizes that he cannot move. A terrible sense of panic gradually overtakes his mind, and the imagination begins to paint frightening pictures.
Superliminal
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dreams of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Tested on Humans: Escape Room
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dreams of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
You are the test subject. In this dark environment escape room, you have to solve various puzzles to escape from the research center where you are trapped. Can you find out how you got there and escape???
Oneiros
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dreams of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
Will you be able to break the vicious circle? Can you regain control? Experience the surreal adventure filled with many puzzles and psychedelic visions.
Happy Game
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Ranked #7 for Dreams of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
Manifold Garden
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dreams of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dreams of Pain at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dreams of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dreams of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dreams of Pain.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dreams of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dreams of Pain.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dreams of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dreams of Pain.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under Dreams of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dreams of Pain.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dreams of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dreams of Pain.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dreams of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dreams of Pain.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreams of Pain.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dreams of Pain.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreams of Pain.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Superliminal
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Tested on Humans: Escape Room
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
You are the test subject. In this dark environment escape room, you have to solve various puzzles to escape from the research center where you are trapped. Can you find out how you got there and escape???
Happy Game
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
Manifold Garden
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreams of Pain.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
Frequently asked about Dreams of Pain
- How much does Dreams of Pain cost?
- Dreams of Pain is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dreams of Pain?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dreams of Pain are The Space Bar, Cataplexy, Superliminal.
- Who developed Dreams of Pain?
- Dreams of Pain was developed by SuloSounds.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Dreams of Pain.
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