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>>17258999

The closest you can usually call it is "alice in wonderland inspired". Vndb has that as a tag, but I think it's only used for really obvious examples and not something that's, for example like "humanity has declined" (LN/anime) or Flip Flappers (anime). And I guess not ALL surreal stuff is really that Alice in Wonderland inspired. Mononoke (anime) for example is a bit iffy there. And something like Lain (again anime..) being all cyberpunk may also go a bit too far away.

Anyway, for VNs I can only say: Check out Liarsoft. (i.e. Inganock) Outside of their stuff there won't be much surreal, let alone good surreal. Maybe Hapymaher, but that's under vndb's "wonderland" tag anyway, so you'd find it easily. And it's not THAT surreal either.


Now, denpa and such are also there, but they go into a bit of a different direction I think. If I hear "surreal", I don't think of Higurashi, for example. (Even though it's denpa)