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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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Top sellingtagged Experimental and Text based (79 results)

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Hey there, welcome to the Echo of Mobius! Here, you’ll step into a world shaped by everyone’s wildest dreams.
Role Playing
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Adventure
Will you make love and risk death?
Interactive Fiction
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
Interactive Fiction
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
Take a road trip through a valley.
A surreal visual novel built on old bones and entropy
Interactive Fiction
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Interactive Fiction
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Kevin wants to show what his life would be and why. 他用没人懂的语言写了一本书。
Adventure
Born
$3.33
today we are God and we create from our own image.
The world is ending and nobody cares!
Role Playing
Interactive Fiction
a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
Interactive Fiction
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A Premier Hypertext Adventure Experience!
Adventure
Have you taken a personality quiz before?
You have some company at the end of the world.
Interactive Fiction
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A tarot-like fortune telling deck.
Card Game
12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
A nonfiction essay etched into the architecture of a virtual space.
Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
Visual Novel
Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game
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A voice and text driven horror experience.
Visual Novel
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
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You have a unique opportunity to study the data regarding an identity change experiment.
Adventure
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A Chatroom Thriller
Interactive Fiction
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Narrative browser game, micro management in my Korean mother-in-law one room, Seoul, mars 2020.
Take a moment to think of your past. Do you miss it, or are you ready to move on?
Adventure
An ambient text-based experience inspired by meditation... Your thoughts are yours and yours alone...
Interactive Fiction
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A game where you check passports and talk to people.
Simulation
​Kevin writes a novel within a dictionary to seek what home is.
Adventure
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