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Games that defy the traditional approach to game design and offer unique, interesting and often strange experiences.

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GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Platformer
What is a video game?
12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
Rosden Shadow
The Master of the Land
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
In the Pause Between the Ringing.
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Studio Oleomingus
Interactive Fiction
An Afternoon Rippling
Take a road trip through a valley.
marslizard
Accidental Character Generator
countless possibilities, one terrible reality
caeth
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Platformer
Play in browser
Eleutheria
Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Grim Baccaris
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
404 Missing Page Detective Agency
Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Snozbot
Adventure
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
Typing...
A Chatroom Thriller
DancingEngie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Zenosyne
Write your eulogy
Ezra Szanton
Play in browser
13 Laurel Road
A game about places and the memories they hold.
Crosshollow
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
RIP Harmony
A first date (gone wrong)
bored_kitty
Visual Novel
what do you want?
a one-second rpg character backstory & motive generator
blake stone / fenced forest
Role Playing
Play in browser
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Play in browser
Hello Goodbyes
A writing experience with yourself.
Velvet
Play in browser
CaveBox
CaveBox is a horror text adventure set in a misterious cave
Tiz010
Adventure
I Told You This Was A Bad Idea
Jessica Padkin
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Backspaces
295 words about faulty keyboards and absent mouse pads.
Vaida
Play in browser
Take
katherine
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN
A TEXT-BASED HORROR GAME ABOUT YOU.
knucklebones
Interactive Fiction
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
GIF
Between Stations
(2017)
Sand Gardeners
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
Airwaves
Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
cathode radiator
Visual Novel
Borders
A game where you check passports and talk to people.
Van Andrew
Simulation
WE ARE KINGS
Who knew there could be two kings to one castle?
Vaida
Adventure
Play in browser
Confessions of an NPC
Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Charles H. Huang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
樺ヶ原脱出 - Escape from Kabagahara
You see a path to Kabagahara, will you take it?
Edouard Moinard
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Lid Astray
A blink-detecting text adventure.
Avery Hiebert
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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