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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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HOUSE OF QUEERS
Collaborativ queer poem written during a seminar "queer emergences" in january 2021
olvanyr
Legend Builder Network
We choose you to choose your choices to find the next chosen one with our software of choice. Choose wisely.
Ghost Meets Cat
Adventure
Vile
"A world of fuck."
VileRebis
Puzzle
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Turn the lights off if you can hear me.
A mall guard talks to two people over a radio, using only a light switch.
GreenClovers
Interactive Fiction
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The Moon Wed Saturn
A short story about two girls living a simple, if peculiar, romance
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
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d. h. lawrence's (a/sexual) erotics: a twine essay
An essay.
errenleaf
Play in browser
The Tome Of Time
ZeHasNoName
Interactive Fiction
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Waiting for Godot: A Simulator
A waiting (for godot) simulator based on the Samuel Beckett play.
Cassette Witch
Simulation
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Weight of Words
A narrative game about the work that goes into remembering.
zephhyr
Simulation
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Single Human Sized Dwelling
a text adventure in a single room
stinabean
Interactive Fiction
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Another RPG: Experiment 01
An experiment in tactical combat and consequences
Another RPG Enthusiast
Role Playing
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The Way to Free Will
Is everything decided or our decisions change the destiny?
neoo41
Educational
Play in browser
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN
A TEXT-BASED HORROR GAME ABOUT YOU.
knucklebones
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
NextSteps
Mit tegyek? Hogyan tovább? Útmutató válaszokat kaphatsz kérdéseidre
nsjatekok
Card Game
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In Person, In People
A twine art gallery where you choose your own meaning.
stinabean
Interactive Fiction
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Visual Novelties
Compilation of experimental visual novel ideas
mut
Visual Novel
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Move On
techniX
Interactive Fiction
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Airwaves
Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
cathode radiator
Visual Novel
RUSSIAN ROULETTE
Green Leef Studios
Simulation
Caduceus
A mini pirate ship adventure written in Inform whose code can be read as a poem.
Passerine
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Skull
A surreal visual novel built on old bones and entropy
Alpha Chrome Yayo
Interactive Fiction
2 Tales
Short experimental text game.
ianwrites
Interactive Fiction
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apokalyptein: fortunes for the apocalypse
fortune teller--fill yourself with courage for the future
EA Kane
Play in browser
Wide Island
An interactive story
Draconic Chipmunk
Interactive Fiction
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Cooking Discord
A discord cooking bot
ConeTristan
A Tango Story
A short game about dancing tango
properlygames
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Unsettled Ground
Draw your own connections. Read like a detective.​
Thomas McMullan
Interactive Fiction
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They That Put
Probably not for everyone, but you gotta put yourself out there.
Death is a Whale
Interactive Fiction
The Two Ways
I'd like you to lie to me.
Death is a Whale
Interactive Fiction
Intermediary: A Utopian Cure
man and nature; traditional animal and plant medicine; medical ethics; environmental protection
Yanyi
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
r\i\te\st. [nnnnn in 1 serie]
text-mode non-game Tetris remix
ltrtterrett
Play in browser
B O D Y
a game about recovering yourself
kealiajoy
ROAD TRIP
Drive around an abstract, 3D world that's fleshed out through text.
hit2key
Interactive Fiction
ERASE - I wanted to make a game, but I preferred to be honest
This game isn't for everyone; if you hate it, it's okay and understandable.
Saijo DS
Haunted Haiku Generator
Poetry for the sick
SexDrugsVideoGames
Play in browser
Spookmarklet
kaelynmauve
Puzzle
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