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Experimental

Games that defy the traditional approach to game design and offer unique, interesting and often strange experiences.

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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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O'Ruggin Trail
Archetypal Tech
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Crash Duck🦆
Just a game about a silly little duck pet🦆
Nath Kalantar
Interactive Fiction
Dose Makes The Poison
Experimental visual novel exploring the myth and mystery of silphium
Anna Bunting-Branch
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Debris
Survive amidst a falling sky, manipulating the cubes which without end storm your meager plane.
Reverie Requiem
Survival
the t migrate east
One tiny interactive poem for each letter.
roughat
Play in browser
Hymer 2000
A Video Game About Unchanged Past and a Human Talking to a Machine.
indienova
Adventure
Whisper Back
Un juego sobre compartir lo que nos tiene mal, y poder apoyarnos mútuamente
Juanpa Carabio
GIF
Dawn After Dusk
Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.
Alexis Clay
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Weary Community
An interactive critique of unemployment and the studiy "Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community"
Lola
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
People Management Solutions (Pty) Ltd.
Sort documents into folders for a company that doesn't tell you why.
Donata Geen
Simulation
Play in browser
BIOS of Being
$5
The software is free. The patch will cost you your ego.
mematron
Role Playing
Play in browser
Newton's apple
a diary comic game
dino
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Break the Loop
Welcome to escape rooms where your only goal is to get out of the loop
Mat_tew
Connect the Dots
Our songs will all be silenced.
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Visual Novel
Title Quest
A quest to start the game
Nodrance
Puzzle
Play in browser
Ongoing Story
A simple multiple-choice game run by your local AI.
BaseGame
Interactive Fiction
Concrete Spaces
$5
Slam poem anthology.
Samuli Pietikäinen
Interactive Fiction
Verb Adverbly
Read efficiently. ​Decide carefully. Farewell appropriately.
Nick Gelling
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
LOREGUI.xxx
experimental GUI game revisted to the roots
tvstar1999
Play in browser
DRAGONS AND SWORDS (original title)
SIMPLE TRICK
demiurgical
Role Playing
SAFEPINS
you've joined the revolution, now make a change
f.lorui
Puzzle
Play in browser
Horrors at The Hemlock Hotel [AWorkInProgress]
Ioinbetween
Action
anpa ma
musi sitelen kepeken toki pona
roachbones
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Escape
Trapped in a prison you cannot understand how will you Escape?
TheCinderWorks
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
What we might learn from the original world-builders
A world-building treatise
Outgrabe
Play in browser
RIP Me
My world has turned right side up
bored_kitty
Visual Novel
Portrait with Wolf
a rendering
Drew Cook
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Creative Writing
ThibaudB
Play in browser
GIF
The world of a creature
The creature stands there, looking at the world it has created
teletuu
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Ubu
A pictorial guide to stock photos.
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Visual Novel
Bottled Dreaming
Another step toward something, somewhere.
mrehl
Play in browser
livro
Uma expêriencia curta baseado em coisas da minha vida.
sof1dev_
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
MMMM
Madruin
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Radiowraith
Tune In, Fade Out
MattyGStar
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
El Enigma del Regreso
Donde la varilla se hunde, la tierra susurra memorias de los que aún esperan ser hallados.
insurgentes300
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Customisable Poems
Experimenting with combining interactivity and the medium of poems (original works).
PixelBobs
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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