Avant-Garden: Cool Unique Games
What's This?
A collection of cool, off-beat, unique, or otherwise exemplary games. Formerly "Cool Weird Games", but lots of people think of "weird" as a negative (but IMO, more games should strive to be weird).
Not necessarily "alt games" but just cool, unique stuff you never thought you'd see. Many are free, all are worth your time.
Some are more experimental than others, I'll try and note whenever a game should be treated as such (very short, no ending, no goal, etc).
Who're you?
I'm Sir TapTap, and my mission is to spread a love of games, particularly the hidden gems and underrated magic.
I've played through almost all of these games on my YouTube channel to give a visual quick look into new experiences. You can check out a playlist of Alt/Art games there.
A fun, endless little romp in an imaginary Doom level where you've killed everything but don't know where to go
Classic Flash game, and it no longer requires Flash! A must try digital toy.
A delightful Hamster adventure in a Yume-Nikki-esque dream world.
Explore strange and mysterious hotels. Has an ending
A surreal walking sim with many different worlds to explore. No ending, just wander all you like.
Cute bird photography.
Short ~20-30 minute adventure inside a snowglobe with great pixel art and a little story to think about. Ending is a bit sudden so talk to everyone you can!
Solve weird problems in an even weirder town. Pizza physics.
A delightful hellraiser that I highly recommend for streamers.
Here's a fun rather NSFW stream we did with Desktop Goose active:
Adorable, very short little visual novel. Beans.
A Eat Small Things Get Big game, wish Sokpop's delightful visual style applied.
Hilarious little branching narrative where you can only say NO
Warioware but really weird, as you might expect. I played a very early version
Very short but emotional cat tale
A faithful and impressively full featured Yume Nikki fan game with several events and effects that actually do things!
Start video at 2:51:28
A Yumi Nikki fan game with some cool styles though it's only partially compelte
Video starts at 3:00
A col Yume Nikki fan game. Play the original first.
My playthrough:
Use Yahoo answers to diagnose a ghost, why not. Short
Surprisingly fun exploration of social anxiety
A desktop buddy that knows it's going to die. Will you really put it down?
Short surreal ouzzle with some great M.C. Escher-esque style