Games like Bad Dream: Purgatory
If Bad Dream: Purgatory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bad Dream: Stories, Bad Dream: Coma and This Is Not Your House — 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.
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Players who liked Bad Dream: Purgatory also play
Steam players who put hours into Bad Dream: Purgatory 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.
Bad Dream: Stories
WHY THIS
Top pick for Bad Dream: Purgatory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Bad Dream: Stories is a collection of older games in the Bad Dream series in a new, remastered form. Play the series of short point & click titles and travel through the disturbing and atmospheric world of dreams.
Bad Dream: Coma
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Bad Dream: Purgatory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
This Is Not Your House
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Bad Dream: Purgatory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
Lucid Dream Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Bad Dream: Purgatory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Lucid Dream is the story of little Lucy, who goes on an adventure into the world of dreams with the mission to save her mother.
HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Bad Dream: Purgatory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM is a unique point-and-click puzzle game where you move and combine objects to solve puzzles. Unravel the strange puzzles hidden in your dreams.
Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Bad Dream: Purgatory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
This is an isolated town, a town of memories that have been forgotten by its people. However, this small town has not been quiet and peaceful since the murders began... Time passes by, where are the sinful spirits going? Are my memories reality, or just a dream?
Static Dread: The Lighthouse
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Bad Dream: Purgatory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
The Franz Kafka Videogame
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Bad Dream: Purgatory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bad Dream: Purgatory at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bad Dream: Purgatory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
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 ~50% under Bad Dream: Purgatory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
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 ~50% under Bad Dream: Purgatory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
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 ~50% under Bad Dream: Purgatory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Bad Dream: Purgatory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
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 ~70% under Bad Dream: Purgatory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bad Dream: Purgatory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
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 ~50% under Bad Dream: Purgatory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
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 Bad Dream: Purgatory.
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 Bad Dream: Purgatory.
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 Bad Dream: Purgatory.
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 Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Bad Dream: Purgatory.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Desert Fox
Other recommendable Steam games by Desert Fox, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Bad Dream: Coma
WHY THIS
Another title from Desert Fox, the studio behind Bad Dream: Purgatory. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
Bad Dream: Fever
WHY THIS
Another title from Desert Fox, the studio behind Bad Dream: Purgatory. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
The world is covered in strange ink, an unknown plague has gathered its cruel harvest. The city seems to be completely empty and dead, but in its every corner there are manifestations of fear, sorrow, loneliness and suffering.
Bad Dream: Stories
WHY THIS
Another title from Desert Fox, the studio behind Bad Dream: Purgatory. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Bad Dream: Stories is a collection of older games in the Bad Dream series in a new, remastered form. Play the series of short point & click titles and travel through the disturbing and atmospheric world of dreams.
Darkness Under My Bed
WHY THIS
Another title from Desert Fox, the studio behind Bad Dream: Purgatory. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Wander through intricate maze under the bed, and discover the secrets hidden in the long, dark tunnels. Document the existence of monsters. Retrieve the stolen treasures and memories.
Faded Stories: Greenberg
WHY THIS
Another title from Desert Fox, the studio behind Bad Dream: Purgatory. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
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.
Faded Stories: Full Moon
WHY THIS
Another title from Desert Fox, the studio behind Bad Dream: Purgatory. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Unburied and forgotten undead gather in the city center, while the citizens of Greenberg go about their day-to-day lives.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Bad Dream: Coma
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM is a unique point-and-click puzzle game where you move and combine objects to solve puzzles. Unravel the strange puzzles hidden in your dreams.
Static Dread: The Lighthouse
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
The Franz Kafka Videogame
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Purgatory.
An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.
Frequently asked about Bad Dream: Purgatory
- Is Bad Dream: Purgatory verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Bad Dream: Purgatory is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Bad Dream: Purgatory cost?
- Bad Dream: Purgatory is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bad Dream: Purgatory?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bad Dream: Purgatory are Bad Dream: Stories, Bad Dream: Coma, This Is Not Your House.
- Who developed Bad Dream: Purgatory?
- Bad Dream: Purgatory was developed by Desert Fox.
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