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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
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(257 total ratings)
Platformer
A Dark Forest
Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game
TinyTakinTeller
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(91 total ratings)
Play in browser
Accidental Character Generator
countless possibilities, one terrible reality
caeth
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(147 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Girls' Day
A brief memory.
Nice Gear Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Zenosyne
Write your eulogy
Ezra Szanton
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Play in browser
Hello Goodbyes
A writing experience with yourself.
Velvet
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
Between Stations
(2017)
Sand Gardeners
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(57 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Lid Astray
A blink-detecting text adventure.
Avery Hiebert
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Adventure
I Told You This Was A Bad Idea
Jessica Padkin
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Banksy's newborn baby
interactive poem
dino
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Confessions of an NPC
Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Charles H. Huang
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN
A TEXT-BASED HORROR GAME ABOUT YOU.
knucklebones
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eleutheria
Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Grim Baccaris
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
An Afternoon Rippling
Take a road trip through a valley.
marslizard
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(46 total ratings)
The Master of the Land
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Pseudavid
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
What is a video game?
12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
Rosden Shadow
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
FREE Personality Test
A "FREE Meyers-Briggs personality test" which will tell you more about yourself!
Devon WiersmaVerified Account
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
WE ARE KINGS
Who knew there could be two kings to one castle?
Vaida
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
13 Laurel Road
A game about places and the memories they hold.
Crosshollow
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Stumbling upon meaning in an old town abandoned to its fate
An exploration of meanings
mut
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In the Pause Between the Ringing.
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Studio Oleomingus
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Typing...
A Chatroom Thriller
DancingEngie
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(189 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Salomónico
Experimento interactivo sobre partir cosas como el Rey Salomón.
Jordi de Paco
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
The horse is dead.
Short, twine-like (custom), experimental interactive poetry.
Nico May
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Play in browser
404 Missing Page Detective Agency
Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Snozbot
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Conversations
Discuss with an AI in the cloud about its experience
yo252yo
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Messages From the Universe Graveyard
Experimental social game. Leave messages for other players in a dead world.
Kanderwund
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Habeas Corpus
Abandoned spaces in the bowels of a wandering fortress.
Grim Baccaris
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
free bird.
closed door. feathered fury.
Passerine
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
rédiger
fermentum tempus
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
rain
twine game/story about the experience of rain
eli fessler
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Play in browser
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