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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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THE NEXT LIFE
A totally accurate mermaid reincarnation simulator.
God, Teo!
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
TerminalCraft
A text based survival sandbox.
TurboWafflz
Survival
타닥토닥(Pat Pat Tapping)_Single Play Ver.
A typing game with a custom keyboard
SongheeJo
Orientalism: The Text Adventure
A game adaptation of the seminal text in postcolonial theory.
Jack Yang
Educational
Play in browser
Song of the Anthropocene
God, Teo!
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
non-binary (GGJ 2022 version)
un gioco di sopravvivenza queer in un mondo ostile
owof games
Survival
Play in browser
DIPHENHYDRAMINE
You have some company at the end of the world.
Quakes
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A todas mis memorias futuras
Un hombre reflexiona sobre alguien de su pasado y alguien de su futuro.
Interactive Dreams
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
U.F.O Text Quest
A classic text adventure in the style of interactive fiction from computers from the 80s
Tuesday Street
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Chronologist
​Play as a humble chronologist, fixing and replacing clocks.
VOLTUR
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
My Friend Is Sad
Improve your friend's mood as much as possible before the conversation ends.
OpenSorceryGames
Simulation
Play in browser
Talk Back
Experimental approach to dialogue
tranquilmage
Role Playing
THESE/US
you're trans and you have a boat to fix
cautioncrow
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Writing to Disk...
a surreal interactive poem for you and your computer
devirtualized
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
reMemory
An experiment in creating narrative
Loressa
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
PONG: The Twine Experience
It's Pong. As a Twine Experience.
mwahahavilah
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Sea Won't Stop [A short text adventure]
You are a pirate captain. There is a large hole in the side of your ship. Can you stop it sinking? No. But you can try.
m11
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Normal RPG Game
The Archival Process
Interactive Fiction
PHENOMENA
Shifting stories about UFOs. An interactive poem.
lavieenmeow
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Instead
A small interactive work to help prevent self-harm.
Charlotte Night Owl Interactive
Play in browser
Memory Lane
A short, noir-inspired cyberpunk heist adventure.
VOLTUR
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
𝙘astañeda
Poema interactivo con fotografías del manicomio "La Castañeda"
insurgentes300
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Thinking Through Glass
A collection of vignettes about the ways I think.
pretentiouslemon
Interactive Fiction
Autumn Leaves
Artsy, text-based, survival city builder. Not as difficult as it looks.
Yamakoshi Hiroyuki
Strategy
The Numerus Corporation Virtual Orientation
Complete this assessment before applying to join the Numerus Corporation!
Israel Ownbey
Simulation
God Not Found
Question the teachings of men
Jacob Aberdevine
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Carambola
You are the Emperor of Carambola. Do what you want. Just mind your advisors.
movinglinguini
Strategy
Play in browser
IN SEARCH OF IAMORTARTIS
A Bitsy Game?
Shem Shelley
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Secrets
Janky Story puzzle
leonvoskuil
Puzzle
Neighbourhood Watch
Chrisisloading
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Ordál
Take on the role of an investigator from the Czech Republic in 1999.
Monitoring
Interactive Fiction
No !@#$s Left to Give
A short abstract visual novel about what you feel about having too many or too little !@#$s left to give
Knickknack PJ
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Infinite - Nothing
A poem about consciousness, ethics and empathy, in Bitsy
deerful
Play in browser
Curse
Do you say bad words?
Rafiki
Play in browser
Однажды волчьей ночью
Первое испытание молодого охотника
Roguelike Lab
Interactive Fiction
Least Organized
Could you be less organized?
Rafiki
Play in browser
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