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A single-player surreal action platformer where exploration and choice lead through hidden paths, bizarre characters, and a psychological story, lasting roughly 17–20 hours.

Sephonie
A 3D story-driven platformer featuring parkour exploration of an island's cave network, surreal environments, and an emotionally dense narrative.
2022-04-12
- Action
- Platform

Puzzle

Adventure

Fantasy

Third person

Indie

Mystery

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The Dreadful Whispers

A short, introspective indie adventure about confronting inner demons, starting slow but becoming rewarding with secrets.

2019-09-05

Platform
Adventure
Indie

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Metro Gravity

A single-player metroidvania with gravity-bending movement, rhythmic combat, and puzzle-heavy exploration in a surreal dream world, roughly 10 hours for reviewers.

2025-06-19

Action
Platform
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Music

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Disillusion ST

A patient, surreal labyrinth adventure of exploration, NPC dialogue, and collecting lost happiness, with a roughly 17-hour playthrough for reviewers.

2024-10-26

Action
First person
Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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PEPPERED: an existential platformer

A single-player existential platformer with dry humor, many choices, and a tight ~8-hour narrative about saving the world or serving the God of Death.

2025-04-07

Action
Comedy
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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ANIMAL WELL

A single-player 2D Metroidvania where you manipulate the environment with collected items to unravel the secrets of a dense, surreal underground labyrinth over roughly 10–14 hours.

2024-05-09

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie
Side view
Mystery

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Night in the Woods

A ~15-hour, character-driven adventure game starring an anthropomorphic cat, blending exploration and puzzle-platforming in a vibrant world with a branching, emotionally resonant story.

2017-02-21

Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Drama

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TEOCIDA

A surreal single-player puzzle-platformer descending through a cryptic microcosm of faith and erotic nightmares.

2021-12-24

Action
Platform
Adventure
Horror
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

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OneShot: World Machine Edition

A surreal, fourth-wall-breaking puzzle adventure starring a catlike child, set within a simulated desktop and shaped by choices across multiple endings.

2024-09-30

Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Text
Role-playing (RPG)

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Psychonauts 2

A heartfelt 3D platform-adventure about a young psychic exploring surreal minds, with dark humor and customizable psychic powers in a roughly 30-hour story.

2021-08-24

Action
Comedy
Platform
Adventure
Third person

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BLACKHOLE

A hardcore 2D sci-fi comedy platformer with gravity puzzles and a lengthy post-apocalyptic story campaign.

2015-02-27

Action
Comedy
Science fiction
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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Clockwork Calamity in Mushroom World: What would you do if the time stopped ticking?

A gentle single-player exploration platformer in a time-stopped, tightly knit world, offering free-form exploration and quirky mechanics over about six hours.

2021-05-31

Action
Adventure
Indie
Side view