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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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Personality Quiz
Have you taken a personality quiz before?
monicaseldow
Journey Down a Street
A man is going to work. But, he takes a different path than usual. This leads to a mystery, but what kind?
vizthex
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Adobencha Rewritten
Sicilica
Role Playing
Poem for Toby
A poem for Toby. Made in Twine.
Mighty CheBo
Play in browser
Loss for Words
An experiential typing game where you aren't sure what you're typing.
undefinist
Play in browser
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
[ARK_DRIVE]
Save the animals!
Josia Roncancio
Savle
Experimental tiny text-based game with file system interactions.
David Libeau
Interactive Fiction
A Pleasant Stroll
A short walk turns into a long meditation on death.
CogsAndSpanners
Play in browser
Flitter Inc.
A Game of Pre-Cyberpunk Censorship
Dead Electron Studios
Interactive Fiction
Specter
A Console-Based Puzzle Game
CD-BASH
Puzzle
Fax Doctor
A theme hospital/papers please inspired medical game.
toa
Universe
A Decentralized Graph-Base Multi-User Interactive-Fiction experiment
Earthnuker
Interactive Fiction
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road
A chronically unfunny exploration of humor
Dunkelschwamm
Play in browser
c i r c u i t s
a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
eileen mary
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Platformer
Play in browser
The Waiting Room
This game has more than 24 hours of gameplay. We mixed a text adventure with an idler. You just have to wait! ⏳
Matías Paredes
pressspace
A one button typing game.
Arcadim
Play in browser
Line Break
Each platform is a snippet of a story. You decide how the story continues!
amnaradesign
Platformer
Confessions of an NPC
Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Charles H. Huang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
forever
very pointless short game experiment
unearthlyred
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
you can't win
a game about losing and toxicity
pen_ultimate
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Seul. (Alone) the day before
Funny, Sad, Creepy, Disturbing and completely absorbing, with a Shakespearean sense of tragedy.
Paranormal Games
Interactive Fiction
Gathering of Delightful Chests
A lootbox visual novel made for the Not Going to GDC Jam
Cybergnose Café
Visual Novel
Looking Back
An autobiographical art piece in VR.
davidmfrisch
yours (if you want me)
my boyfriend, marco ramirez, has gone missing
alexeii
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Solace
The sun is dead, but perhaps you can still find solace.
Isabella Djurovic
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In My Friend Carrie's Car
An autobiographical text-based game about memory and a car ride.
bignastytruck (violet)
intrusive thoughts
dangerous thought loops
xed
3, 2, 1 - Liftoff!
Liam Salmon
Adventure
Play in browser
MartinTelecom's Pet Simulator 1988
Create the pet of your dreams!
MD Wade
Simulation
darkfore.st
A space strategy MMO played from a terminal-like interface
Leonhard
Strategy
Play in browser
Eros
aguilucho5
Puzzle
CURB YOUR ADAPTION
You are a struggling screenwriter.
Taylor Swietanski
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
SUMMON
A Twine toy about a desperate last attempt
Tubatic
Role Playing
Play in browser
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