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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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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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GIF
Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Platformer
An Afternoon Rippling
Take a road trip through a valley.
marslizard
A Dark Forest
Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game
TinyTakinTeller
Play in browser
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Interactive Fiction
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
The Master of the Land
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
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
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Interactive Fiction
Accidental Character Generator
countless possibilities, one terrible reality
caeth
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
404 Missing Page Detective Agency
Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Snozbot
Adventure
Play in browser
In the Pause Between the Ringing.
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Studio Oleomingus
Interactive Fiction
c i r c u i t s
a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
eileen mary
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
I Told You This Was A Bad Idea
Jessica Padkin
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eleutheria
Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Grim Baccaris
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
Hello Goodbyes
A writing experience with yourself.
Velvet
Play in browser
Airwaves
Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
cathode radiator
Visual Novel
Typing...
A Chatroom Thriller
DancingEngie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Girls' Day
A brief memory.
Nice Gear Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Play in browser
FREE Personality Test
A "FREE Meyers-Briggs personality test" which will tell you more about yourself!
Devon WiersmaVerified Account
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
What is a video game?
12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
Rosden Shadow
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN
A TEXT-BASED HORROR GAME ABOUT YOU.
knucklebones
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Backspaces
295 words about faulty keyboards and absent mouse pads.
Vaida
Play in browser
Ginger
​Kevin writes a novel within a dictionary to seek what home is.
KevinDu
Adventure
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
13 Laurel Road
A game about places and the memories they hold.
Crosshollow
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
what do you want?
a one-second rpg character backstory & motive generator
blake stone / fenced forest
Role Playing
Play in browser
Stumbling upon meaning in an old town abandoned to its fate
An exploration of meanings
mut
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In My Friend Carrie's Car
An autobiographical text-based game about memory and a car ride.
bignastytruck (violet)
Widemare
A voice and text driven horror experience.
Andrea Pignataro
Visual Novel
GIF
Ray Bibbia
Play as the toughest private exorcist around and fight evil by dodging bullets and typing your formula.
Morbidware
Action
Salomónico
Experimento interactivo sobre partir cosas como el Rey Salomón.
Jordi de Paco
Confessions of an NPC
Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Charles H. Huang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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