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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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the dark is a soft, warm pressure.
isitjustmeinhere?
MARED JURPHY
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Ren's Demons I
An innovative experimental philosophical narrative RPG about YOU
yo252yo
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
GIF
The Excuse Machine
Your #1 solution for creating lies!
ManofPixels
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Play in browser
PONG: The Twine Experience
It's Pong. As a Twine Experience.
mwahahavilah
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Suspicion
A Found Phone Detective Game
Akshay Goel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Seul. (Alone) the day before
Funny, Sad, Creepy, Disturbing and completely absorbing, with a Shakespearean sense of tragedy.
Paranormal Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Unsettled Ground
Draw your own connections. Read like a detective.​
Thomas McMullan
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Kitchen Tour
Take a one minute tour of a kitchen and bake cookies.
aspacexpl
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
non-binary (GGJ 2022 version)
un gioco di sopravvivenza queer in un mondo ostile
owof games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Survival
Play in browser
Will
Are you prepared to let go?
MiniChimera
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Gathering of Delightful Chests
A lootbox visual novel made for the Not Going to GDC Jam
Cybergnose Café
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
RIP Harmony
A first date (gone wrong)
bored_kitty
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Speak Up
One minute of fame. Eternity of glory.
Ein
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ginger
​Kevin writes a novel within a dictionary to seek what home is.
KevinDu
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Egress
Finally, you are perfect...
Aleks Samoylov
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
CURB YOUR ADAPTION
You are a struggling screenwriter.
Taylor Swietanski
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Haunted Haiku Generator
Poetry for the sick
SexDrugsVideoGames
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Play in browser
Subway
Make your own sub at a strange Subway shop.
aspacexpl
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
2 Tales
Short experimental text game.
ianwrites
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
MartinTelecom's Pet Simulator 1988
Create the pet of your dreams!
MD Wade
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Simulation
The Verb
A short game about creation
Janos Biro
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
It's Not Just You
Two former classmates meet at a bus-stop. Something is not right.
busterbie
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Instead
A small interactive work to help prevent self-harm.
Charlotte Night Owl Interactive
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Play in browser
Borders
A game where you check passports and talk to people.
Van Andrew
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Simulation
A todas mis memorias futuras
Un hombre reflexiona sobre alguien de su pasado y alguien de su futuro.
Interactive Dreams
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Read to Get to Bed
A short story about returning home from work
Jason
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
My Friend Is Sad
Improve your friend's mood as much as possible before the conversation ends.
OpenSorceryGames
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Airwaves
Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
cathode radiator
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
i'd like to let you know
all the things i am grateful for.
Vaida
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Newman Project
Red or blue apple?
TheTeX
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The enmity of dead things
Gotta get rid of it.
Awiola
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Sickness
A short experimental game exploring my personal experience dealing with anxiety and intrusive thoughts.
idegoido
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Educational
Play in browser
pressspace
A one button typing game.
Arcadim
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Play in browser
Lies & Cigars
An interactive apocalyptic Astorian mystery.
katherine
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Sea Won't Stop [A short text adventure]
You are a pirate captain. There is a large hole in the side of your ship. Can you stop it sinking? No. But you can try.
m11
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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