Games like Dream
If Dream is your kind of game, the closest matches are MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition, Kairo and Ether One — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, mysterious and peaceful. 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 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.
Players who liked Dream also play
Steam players who put hours into Dream 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.
MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Dream.
Top pick for Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dream.
MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!
Kairo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dream.
Second-strongest match for Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dream.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
Ether One
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dream.
Third-strongest match for Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dream.
Ether One is a first person adventure that deals with the fragility of the human mind. There are two paths in the world you can choose from. At its core is a story exploration path free from puzzles where you can unfold the story at your own pace.
Dear Esther
WHY THIS
Shares environmental exploration and an atmospheric mood with Dream.
Ranked #4 for Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dream.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
Aporia: Beyond The Valley
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Dream.
Ranked #5 for Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dream.
CRYNEGINE Indie Game of 2017. Featuring an incredibly detailed ancient world and a breathtaking soundtrack, Aporia: Beyond the Valley takes open world storytelling to new heights of adventure.
Homesick
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dream.
Ranked #6 for Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dream.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
Obduction
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dream.
Ranked #7 for Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dream.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
Layers of Fear (2016)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dream.
Ranked #8 for Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dream.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dream at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dream.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dream.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dream.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dream.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dream.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dream.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dream.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dream.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dream.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dream.
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 Dream.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dream.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dream.
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 with Dream.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dream.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about Dream
- Does Dream work on Steam Deck?
- Dream is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Dream cost?
- Dream is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dream?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dream are MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition, Kairo, Ether One.
- Who developed Dream?
- Dream was developed by HyperSloth.
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 Dream.
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