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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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GIF
Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Platformer
WAS/WERE
$4
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Interactive Fiction
An Afternoon Rippling
Take a road trip through a valley.
marslizard
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Interactive Fiction
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Interactive Fiction
In the Pause Between the Ringing.
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Studio Oleomingus
Interactive Fiction
Accidental Character Generator
countless possibilities, one terrible reality
caeth
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Master of the Land
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eleutheria
Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Grim Baccaris
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Typing...
A Chatroom Thriller
DancingEngie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
I EAT MANTRAS FOR BREAKFAST
$7.77
SCREAMFEAST
Maria Mison
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
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
What is a video game?
12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
Rosden Shadow
Zenosyne
Write your eulogy
Ezra Szanton
Play in browser
GIF
Lid Astray
A blink-detecting text adventure.
Avery Hiebert
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Play in browser
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
FREE Personality Test
A "FREE Meyers-Briggs personality test" which will tell you more about yourself!
Devon WiersmaVerified Account
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
I Told You This Was A Bad Idea
Jessica Padkin
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Girls' Day
A brief memory.
Nice Gear Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Personality Quiz
Have you taken a personality quiz before?
monicaseldow
c i r c u i t s
a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
eileen mary
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Write'n'Slash
Nervous text-based hack'n slash about a doll who dreams to write like humans...
valentin serri
Echo of Mobius
$1.88
Hey there, welcome to the Echo of Mobius! Here, you’ll step into a world shaped by everyone’s wildest dreams.
Echo_of_Mobius
Role Playing
Widemare
A voice and text driven horror experience.
Andrea Pignataro
Visual Novel
樺ヶ原脱出 - Escape from Kabagahara
You see a path to Kabagahara, will you take it?
Edouard Moinard
Interactive Fiction
Borders
A game where you check passports and talk to people.
Van Andrew
Simulation
GIF
Indiepocalypse #52
$15
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Kevin(1997-2077)
$4.99
Kevin wants to show what his life would be and why. 他用没人懂的语言写了一本书。
KevinDu
Adventure
In My Friend Carrie's Car
An autobiographical text-based game about memory and a car ride.
bignastytruck (violet)
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