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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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Pool of Stone
A twisted version of the myth of Echo and Narcissus
Persephone
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Big Day
Magical-0range
Role Playing
Play in browser
Social-Interaction-Study_Peralez-Questions
An attempt to do better then list enumeration
Hunter MacNab
Role Playing
What are games? Is this one?
The most essential question
Rafiki
Educational
Play in browser
GIF
Agentia
A more-than-human world
racarter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Directory Dungeon - a File Explorer Dungeon Crawler
A little dungeon crawler played right in the windows file explorer.
JuhrJuhr
Role Playing
apparition/existence
a conversation under the trees
eternighost
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Veloria
An experimental experience where your choices matter
Larberec
Interactive Fiction
May, 2016 (EARLY ACCESS)
Malísima
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Speaking from Experience
Visual novel about leveling up the social hierarchy
Cuber1
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The (Wish) Fulfilment Centre
A place where dreams come true. A place where nightmares are born.
Mark A. King
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Maslow's Hierarchy Simulator
If You Are A Human, You Already Know How To Play
MutualEntertainment
Simulation
Play in browser
Abstract Chess
Where strategy meets simplicity. Distill your chess mastery into pure abstraction.
MutualEntertainment
Strategy
Play in browser
Banksy's newborn baby
interactive poem
dino
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Little Slider Adventure
A slider-based game
Rafiki
Adventure
Play in browser
Remembrance
A text based game set in a dystopic sci-fi future.
Remembrance.indie
Interactive Fiction
Код апокалипсиса
Визуальная новелла с real-time генерацией контента
LaPLaS games inc.
Visual Novel
Your Great Colonial State
the name of the bird is liberation
Antemaion
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Salomónico
Experimento interactivo sobre partir cosas como el Rey Salomón.
Jordi de Paco
RIP Harmony
A first date (gone wrong)
bored_kitty
Visual Novel
clock out.
a game about a job interview
devkity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
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Waiting in the Museum
You wake up in a museum at night. You need to escape, but what's the rush?
I_worry_me
Adventure
Play in browser
Flaneur
Explore the inner thoughts of people on a college campus!
Galvan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Every Word is a Drawing
one person writing roleplay
kirbs
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Pluvioville
A tale never to be told by word of mouth.
AngelaLin
Role Playing
Khuriya Muriya Islands, Oman; as described by Paul Scheerbart in The Gray Cloth in 1914
Scheerbart-inspired environments for fulldome, experiments
luka
Simulation
Silicosis - Preview
Your a technician on a Mars Base...What could go wrong?
Mcniner
Play in browser
You're My Poison
Sometimes poison is the only way to treat a virus.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
Larme à gauche
Retournez dans votre famille. Enterrez votre grand-père. Restez. Où partez.
fuegosuave
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Forward
Back & forth.
Norbez Jones (call me Bez)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
indie game dev simulator
you wanted to be an artist - right?
convolutionalSquid
Play in browser
Business Tycoon
Money maker
Bunkurs
Simulation
To Click A Mockingbird
A "first-person shooter" made in Twine for a textual twist.
QuestingQueerly
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Run: Algorithms, AI, and Archives
What is lost in digital translations?
Diamond E. B. Porter
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Messages From the Universe Graveyard
Experimental social game. Leave messages for other players in a dead world.
Kanderwund
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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