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Games like The Next Door
Labory · 2016 · 53 % positive of 905
24 games that play like The Next Door and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Disoriented, Door and Oneiros.
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At a glance
What games like The Next Door have in common
- The tags they share most often with The Next Door: Puzzle (20 of 24), First-Person (18) and Walking Simulator (14).
- They came out between 2009 and 2025, 12 of them after The Next Door (2016).
- Best rated by Steam players: Viewfinder (94 % positive of 8,505).
- DMT: Dream Dealer Trip, Awkward Dimensions Redux and Sensorium both play and look like The Next Door.
By gameplay
Plays like The Next Door
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

Disoriented
81 % positive of 398
Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person

Door
66 % positive of 158
Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person

Oneiros
84 % positive of 299
Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Surreal

DMT: Dream Dealer Trip
54 % positive of 231
Shared: First-Person · Indie · Adventure

Windosill
91 % positive of 1,120
Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Indie

Only If
62 % positive of 5,945
Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person

Dreamcore
87 % positive of 740
Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Surreal

Zzzz-Zzzz-Zzzz
77 % positive of 244
Shared: Indie · Adventure · Casual

Homesick
78 % positive of 1,393
Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person

The Witness
84 % positive of 18,937
Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person

Night Reverie: Prologue
92 % positive of 280
Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Indie

The Sojourn
72 % positive of 204
Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
More matches
- The Spectrum Retreat75 % positive of 282Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
- Dream56 % positive of 985Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
- Night Reverie97 % positive of 301Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Indie
- DREAM LOGIC90 % positive of 336Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
- Quern - Undying Thoughts91 % positive of 3,544Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
- Invisible Mind77 % positive of 451Shared: Indie · Adventure
- Awkward Dimensions Redux80 % positive of 2,941Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
- Sensorium91 % positive of 224Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Indie
- Viewfinder94 % positive of 8,505Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Surreal
- Through Abandoned: The Forest76 % positive of 431Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Indie
- Transference™70 % positive of 480Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
- NaissanceE84 % positive of 3,925Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
By look
Looks like The Next Door
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

When the Darkness comes
92 % positive of 8,314

Project Pulsation
70 % positive of 376

Irrational Exuberance: Prologue
85 % positive of 356

Small Radios Big Televisions
71 % positive of 371

Matter
90 % positive of 171

NORTH
63 % positive of 447

Master Reboot
75 % positive of 693

Museum of Other Realities
90 % positive of 424

Sensorium
91 % positive of 224

Polyball
69 % positive of 1,200

Soul Axiom
71 % positive of 245

The Indigo Parallel
98 % positive of 225
More matches
- Multiwinia81 % positive of 585
- Recursive Ruin80 % positive of 277
- Surge94 % positive of 267
- That Dragon, Cancer89 % positive of 1,478
- Awkward Dimensions Redux80 % positive of 2,941
- Construct: Escape the System74 % positive of 159
- Fugue in Void66 % positive of 239
- BLACKSHARD92 % positive of 216
- DMT: Dream Dealer Trip54 % positive of 231
- After Dreams74 % positive of 204
- Guiding Light85 % positive of 160
- Lemma82 % positive of 243
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.