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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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How to Brighten up the Life
$2.49
Relive a story of a young girl who is desperately lost.
Wonderful Tree Studio
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Indiepocalypse #52
$15
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
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
Going to School
what my commute to school is like in the winter
savn
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
i didn't make a game for this jam
a documentary autobio interactive (non)fiction
classheikki
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Writer: A Change Of Identity
$2.99
You have a unique opportunity to study the data regarding an identity change experiment.
GameAboutGames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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
Will
Are you prepared to let go?
MiniChimera
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Infinite - Nothing
A poem about consciousness, ethics and empathy, in Bitsy
deerful
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
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
GIF
Suspicion
A Found Phone Detective Game
Akshay Goel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Love and Java
Biggus
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Wide Island
An interactive story
Draconic Chipmunk
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Clover
A book of puzzles and riddles
Liero
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
Divine Affaire
Simulations, Encyclopdia, Polytheism
LabLabLab
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Simulation
ALRAUNE
a trauma/recovery twine
BlakeLocked
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Letters in the Wind
Bezerra
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
the dark is a soft, warm pressure.
isitjustmeinhere?
MARED JURPHY
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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
RIP Harmony
A first date (gone wrong)
bored_kitty
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
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
Utopia, an Essay
$1
A nonfiction essay etched into the architecture of a virtual space.
Bruno Dias
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
MartinTelecom's Pet Simulator 1988
Create the pet of your dreams!
MD Wade
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Simulation
CURB YOUR ADAPTION
You are a struggling screenwriter.
Taylor Swietanski
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
2 Tales
Short experimental text game.
ianwrites
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Egress
Finally, you are perfect...
Aleks Samoylov
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
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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
The Verb
A short game about creation
Janos Biro
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
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
Borders
A game where you check passports and talk to people.
Van Andrew
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Simulation
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
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