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Zelda's Avant-Garden: Delightful, Unique Games

A collection of worth-your-time games that are experimental or otherwise unique. Most are short & free; try a few before starting a new big game to freshen your gaming palette! I've played through almost all of these games on my YouTube channel

Avant-Garden now has its own playlist of videos!

Shoot a Porno, Kill a Granny and Punch God in the Face...
Adventure
A giraffe born with slippery feet sets out to find loveโ€ฆ
Adventure
your body betrays your conspiracy
Action
Play in browser
Scramble to collect leaves before winter!
squeak your way to the cheese
Puzzle
Play in browser
Aqua Catholicism; Explore Man's Original Sin Under The Sea
Adventure

Very good little horror game, great dither-y aesthetic

about a little robot with feelings
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser

Amazing little bitsy game; maybe 10 minutes. Bittersweet but not grimdark. Detail in the art is very good and the writing/world are top notch!

My stream:

I'm crossin here!
Action
Play in browser

A super cute little arcadey game. You're timed and have about 5 minutes to help some of the silliest little guys get across a bridge. Adorable aesthetic.

See me play it here: 

save the moth kingdom from all these spiderwebs!
Adventure
Play in browser

Super cute short little adventure. Worth it for Princess Poffin herself alone, who is the cutest little fuzzball. Takes about 10 minutes.

See me play it here: 

Gather unknown signals from deep, silent space
Simulation
BlueSuburbia is an exploration of interactive poetry and literature.
Interactive Fiction
Simulation

A fun, endless little romp in an imaginary Doom level where you've killed everything but don't know where to go

a 90s art program extravaganza

2D Art not a game but neat and what a premise! 

It's not a game. It's a toy!
Adventure

Classic Flash game, and it no longer requires Flash! A must try digital toy.


Explore several areas and talk to giants. Find some food and snooze.

A delightful Hamster adventure in a Yume-Nikki-esque dream world.


Check-in to the hotel of your dreams, today!

Explore strange and mysterious hotels. Has an ending


Enjoy a surreal vacation in a magical dimension!
Adventure

A surreal walking sim with many different worlds to explore. No ending, just wander all you like. 


Take photos of cute birds doing cute things, and make people happy on the internet!
Adventure

Cute bird photography. 

3D fractals exploration game
Adventure

Explore an entire fractal universe


A RPGMaker Story about a Snowglobe and an Hourglass.
Visual Novel

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!


At the local pizzeria, nothing is what it seems.
Adventure

Solve weird problems in an even weirder town. Pizza physics.


A Camping Story starring: Uncle Brad, Aunt Cloanne, Mord (and Ben)
Adventure
I have created a goose that lives on your desktop. He is an asshole.

A delightful hellraiser that I highly recommend for streamers.
Here's a fun rather NSFW stream we did with Desktop Goose active: 


You find a stray cat. It's magical.
Visual Novel

Adorable, very short little visual novel. Beans.


be a hungry fish ๐ŸŸ
Adventure

A Eat Small Things Get Big game, wish Sokpop's delightful visual style applied.


you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.
Shooter
A short adventure in a hand drawn world full of strange friends
Adventure
a very cute game with a very spooky beginning
Adventure
A choose your "no" adventure
Interactive Fiction

Hilarious little branching narrative where you can only say NO


Bizzarioware is an ongoing collection of psychedelic, strange and surreal microgames played for 15 seconds or less.
Simulation

Warioware but really weird, as you might expect. I played a very early version


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