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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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Backspaces
295 words about faulty keyboards and absent mouse pads.
Vaida
Play in browser
Eighteen
Story game based upon Teenlife in the 1980's Suburban USA
Azurean88
Accidental Character Generator
countless possibilities, one terrible reality
caeth
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Can you Make It Out Alive Remastered
A Text based survival game based around Gods Will Be Watching.
0Bennyman
Strategy
GIF
Eravola
An Investigation of a Curse
Chronologist
Interactive Fiction
Starr MAYzer
(May) Help Brick collect items to save the day.
ILoveToJam
Adventure
How to Die Like a Graceful Beast
An Interactive Super-Poem!
Aleks Samoylov
Play in browser
Postmodernist Trash
breaking fourth wall on the browser in a bizarre world
Ansh
Play in browser
GIF
Hypervisible
porree
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
WE ARE KINGS
Who knew there could be two kings to one castle?
Vaida
Adventure
Play in browser
Typing...
A Chatroom Thriller
DancingEngie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GEND3R R0ll SUSH1 PLAC3
very best sushies qualities #best #quality #bestquality
Vaida
Simulation
Play in browser
You Are Not the Author
Dadaist Haiku Generator
Dachshund ♥ Techno
Play in browser
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Play in browser
SMS Tactics
An experimental texting game
Cinq-Mars Media
Strategy
Conversatio Nihilo
Do you want to talk?
Adam Bredenberg
Play in browser
Mastering Tedium
a laundry simulator
Juno AM
Simulation
Skull of Ram, Skull of Ewe
On the death of the ram and the ewe.
halfphaseofthesun
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Ray Bibbia
Play as the toughest private exorcist around and fight evil by dodging bullets and typing your formula.
Morbidware
Action
It wasn't me.
What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell
Role Playing
The Saga of Anders Bluebeard
A game where you need to call for help
PNam19
Platformer
How to Brighten up the Life
$2.49
Relive a story of a young girl who is desperately lost.
Wonderful Tree Studio
Adventure
All I Wanted Was To Make A Game
Gamedev in a nutshell - a self-documentary experimental platformer.
Arya Biswas
The Writer: A Change Of Identity
$2.99
You have a unique opportunity to study the data regarding an identity change experiment.
GameAboutGames
Adventure
Play in browser
DialogueFight
Just answering at all can be really difficult.
Lena!
Reflections at Sunset - A meditative Twine experience
An ambient text-based experience inspired by meditation... Your thoughts are yours and yours alone...
Charles H. Huang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
rain
twine game/story about the experience of rain
eli fessler
Play in browser
Little Room
Little Room is a short, free, light-hearted story about decisions and dreams in life.
Arzola's
Hello: A Talking Simulator
Say 'HELLO' to the Corporation.
benjo durbin
Simulation
paperplastic
secrets & grocery stores
eli fessler
Play in browser
i'd like to let you know
all the things i am grateful for.
Vaida
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
DMSystem
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Puzzle
The horse is dead.
Short, twine-like (custom), experimental interactive poetry.
Nico May
Play in browser
Ultimate Vortex Hunter: Revelations
Hunt vortices like a pro...to the extreme.
Aleks Samoylov
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Late Night In Deerhoof
A short adventure-ish sort of story set in Indiana
Jean D'ank
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Creation Cycle Project: Human
reinapepiada
Play in browser
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