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Surge

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2016

Should you play it?

Surge is a short VR music video made by Arjan van Meerten and produced at House of Secrets.

What works

  • Stunning visuals
  • Immersive vr experience
  • Free to play
  • Great music synchronization
  • Good introduction/demo for vr newcomers

Things to keep in mind

  • Very short duration
  • No interactivity
  • Some users experienced motion sickness from moving floor
  • Limited replay value
  • Lack of narrative depth

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Senza Peso

  • Greetings

  • Burning Daylight

  • lure

  • Fantasynth One

  • ISLANDS: Non-Places

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like Surge but with less of an idle filler feel

  • Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

  • Hostil

  • Gravity Bone

  • Under What?

  • Project Hailstorm

  • FORM

More autonomous

Games that feels like Surge but with more freedom over how you play

  • 0°N 0°W

  • Liminalcore

  • LAVALAMP

  • Exo One

  • Exo One: Prologue

  • Irrational Exuberance: Prologue

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Surge. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Surge. These titles are not in What to play next.

Surge: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Health. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Progression, Growth.

Last update: 21/08/2026