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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

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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 Leadership, Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026