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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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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
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Interactive Fiction
An Afternoon Rippling
Take a road trip through a valley.
marslizard
A Skull
A surreal visual novel built on old bones and entropy
Alpha Chrome Yayo
Interactive Fiction
In the Pause Between the Ringing.
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Studio Oleomingus
Interactive Fiction
c i r c u i t s
a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
eileen mary
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Getting Things Done, or The Labyrinth of Doctor Bernstein
A Premier Hypertext Adventure Experience!
Aleks Samoylov
Adventure
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
Personality Quiz
Have you taken a personality quiz before?
monicaseldow
DIPHENHYDRAMINE
You have some company at the end of the world.
Quakes
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Saint Simon's Saw
A tarot-like fortune telling deck.
Framelord
Card Game
A Dark Forest
Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game
TinyTakinTeller
Play in browser
What is a video game?
12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
Rosden Shadow
the dark is a soft, warm pressure.
isitjustmeinhere?
MARED JURPHY
Adventure
Airwaves
Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
cathode radiator
Visual Novel
Widemare
A voice and text driven horror experience.
Andrea Pignataro
Visual Novel
Take
katherine
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ginger
​Kevin writes a novel within a dictionary to seek what home is.
KevinDu
Adventure
The Master of the Land
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Borders
A game where you check passports and talk to people.
Van Andrew
Simulation
Kim's One Room
Narrative browser game, micro management in my Korean mother-in-law one room, Seoul, mars 2020.
Robin Moretti
Haunted Haiku Generator
Poetry for the sick
SexDrugsVideoGames
Play in browser
Egress
Finally, you are perfect...
Aleks Samoylov
Puzzle
Play in browser
room of reminiscence
Take a moment to think of your past. Do you miss it, or are you ready to move on?
Kae
Adventure
Reflections at Sunset - A meditative Twine experience
An ambient text-based experience inspired by meditation... Your thoughts are yours and yours alone...
Charles H. Huang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Typing...
A Chatroom Thriller
DancingEngie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Flitter Inc.
A Game of Pre-Cyberpunk Censorship
Dead Electron Studios
Interactive Fiction
Eleutheria
Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Grim Baccaris
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Storks Are Crying
Unknown Developer
Role Playing
GIF
Nested Letters
prettysmart
Puzzle
Confessions of an NPC
Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Charles H. Huang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
My Friend Is Sad
Improve your friend's mood as much as possible before the conversation ends.
OpenSorceryGames
Simulation
Play in browser
HELLO PENGUIN 3d CHAPTER 1
Noxid
Simulation
It wasn't me.
What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell
Role Playing
Girls' Day
A brief memory.
Nice Gear Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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