Skip to main content

Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines

Filter Results

(Clear)
Tags

Experimental

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

Suggest updated description

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!)

Suggest updated description

Toptagged Experimental and Text based (489 results)

Explore games tagged Experimental and Text based on itch.io · Upload your games to itch.io to have them show up here.

New itch.io is now on YouTube!

Subscribe for game recommendations, clips, and more

send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Platformer
Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game
Play in browser
Take a road trip through a valley.
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
Hey there, welcome to the Echo of Mobius! Here, you’ll step into a world shaped by everyone’s wildest dreams.
Role Playing
Will you make love and risk death?
Interactive Fiction
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Adventure
Experimental social game. Leave messages for other players in a dead world.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
Interactive Fiction
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
countless possibilities, one terrible reality
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
Platformer
Play in browser
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Interactive Fiction
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Adventure
Play in browser
a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A classic text adventure in the style of interactive fiction from computers from the 80s
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A writing experience with yourself.
Play in browser
Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
Visual Novel
A Chatroom Thriller
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A brief memory.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Play in browser
A "FREE Meyers-Briggs personality test" which will tell you more about yourself!
Devon WiersmaVerified Account
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
295 words about faulty keyboards and absent mouse pads.
Play in browser
​Kevin writes a novel within a dictionary to seek what home is.
Adventure
A TEXT-BASED HORROR GAME ABOUT YOU.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A game about places and the memories they hold.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A short abstract visual novel about what you feel about having too many or too little !@#$s left to give
Visual Novel
Play in browser
a one-second rpg character backstory & motive generator
Role Playing
Play in browser
12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
An exploration of meanings
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Loading more games...
itch.io now on YouTube!