Fausts Alptraum similar games & best alternatives

Fausts Alptraum

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

Fausts Alptraum is an single player, puzzle game created by LabORat Studio, an indie game team from Taiwan. The story based on Goethe's Faust. Players will play as a troubled girl wandering around in a crayon-drawn world. Players will have to find the relevance between dreams and reality by collecting clues.

What works

  • Beautiful art and music
  • Deep and intriguing story
  • Challenging puzzles
  • Immersive atmosphere
  • Free to play

Things to keep in mind

  • Some puzzles are obtuse or frustrating
  • Backtracking can be tedious
  • Minor translation and typo issues
  • Lack of achievements or steam cards
  • Occasional technical glitches

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Wolf & Rabbit

  • Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance

  • Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

  • Mr. Hopp's Playhouse 2

  • The Count Lucanor

  • Eve of Souls: Static Pod

Less expressive

Games that feels like Fausts Alptraum but with less self-expression and customization

  • Camp Sunshine

  • 羽翼的祈愿 - Feather Of Praying

  • Lamentum

  • White Dove 白雀

  • Coffin of Ashes

  • Space Pilgrim Episode II: Epsilon Indi

More intimate

Games that feels like Fausts Alptraum but with more focus on close relationships

  • OneShot: World Machine Edition

  • Traum

  • 雨鸦 - You are my sanctuary

  • Paper Lily - Chapter 1

  • My Big Sister

  • SWOLLEN TO BURSTING UNTIL I AM DISAPPEARING ON PURPOSE

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like Fausts Alptraum but with less survival pressure

  • Night Reverie: Prologue

  • Cleo - a pirate's tale

  • Absent

  • Space Pilgrim Episode III: Delta Pavonis

  • A Random Maze 某个迷宫

  • Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Fausts Alptraum: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Competition, Leadership.

Last update: 04/08/2026