- #1 Ramiwo
97% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Bil Deerbuch
Windows
The trippy and wondrous exploration-walking simulator. Arty, surreal, different. Grant your brain some sweetmeat.
Why similar: Experimental 63.9% ★, Indie 21.4%, Exploration 14.8%
- #2 Triennale Game Collection
96% matchVery Positive81% of 111 reviews2016
Dev: Mario von RickenbachPub: Santa Ragione
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%
The Triennale Game Collection is a free virtual exhibition of video games created for the 21st International Exhibition of Triennale Milano by five of the world’s most renowned independent game designers, showcasing these artists’ experimental approach to interactivity.
Why similar: Experimental 84.9% ★, Indie 15.1%
- #3 Memoir En Code: Reissue
96% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2016
Dev: Kalopsia GamesPub: N/A
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Memoir En Code: Reissue is an autobiographical game album. Designed to be experienced similarly to a music album, this short experimental game explores different bits of the author's life as a series of interactive tracks.
Why similar: Experimental 74.9% ★, Indie 25.1%
- #4 Port of Call
94% matchVery Positive88% of 1,273 reviews2015
Dev: Underdog Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.
Why similar: Experimental 69.4% ★, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 13.2%
- #5 Reflections
95% matchMixed49% of 78 reviews2015
Dev: Broken Window Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Reflections is a real-world adventure game where every action you take has meaningful consequences that radically shape the experience. Each action you take is punctuated by flushing the black and white environment with color, illustrating your progress and providing clues to what your future might hold.
Why similar: Experimental 61.4% ★, Adventure 15.3%, Exploration 11.9%, Indie 11.5%
- #6 Locally Sourced Anthology II: The Timeline
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Flyover Games
Windows
A collection of 5 experimental games from different indie devs that takes you on a journey through time!
Why similar: Experimental 65.7% ★, Adventure 13.8%, Indie 11.7%, Exploration 8.8%
- #7 labyrinth
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Explore a castle high in the sky. Open new paths, grow stronger and find crystals. Can you make it to the end?
Why similar: Experimental 52% ★, Adventure 20.6%, Indie 16.5%, Exploration 11%
- #8 The Painted Forest
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Victor Schmitt
Windows
You wash ashore as a castaway to come upon the painted forest, a fossil forest in a distant world, and the lost temples of the people that once worshiped it.
Why similar: Experimental 51.7% ★, Adventure 20.9%, Indie 14.7%, Exploration 12.7%
- #9 The 22nd is Serda. f0a178
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Valdram
Windows
Age of spiritual inequality concentrated in one yard. Because today the environment around us is diversified with guests and mirror reflections, a walk can be helpful. 9490.
Why similar: Experimental 66.2% ★, Adventure 16.3%, Exploration 11.8%, Indie 5.6%
- #10 Metaverse
93% matchMixed43% of 77 reviews2016
Dev: Metaware Limited, LLC
Windows · Mac
In Metaverse you will dig, discover, design, deploy, and defend. Explore, build upon, or tear apart your own procedurally generated voxel planet. And now in the early stages of our multiplayer implementation, help conquer or build the planets of others.
Why similar: Experimental 79.1% ★, Adventure 12.5%, Indie 8.3%
- #11 Dinner Date
92% matchMixed55% of 831 reviews2011
Dev: Stout Games
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 11%
Julian Luxemburg has prepared a dinner for two at his place – but things go awry when the date does not show up and he is left waiting at his dinner table, the clock’s ticking growing unbearably loud. „Dinner Date” is the character portrait of Julian: by becoming his subconsciousness you gain a clear vantage point on the worries which...
Why similar: Experimental 82.5% ★, Indie 17.5%
- #12 Terry's Other Games
85% matchVery Positive100% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: Terry Cavanagh
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hi, I'm Terry Cavanagh! You might remember me from such videogames as Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon, and VVVVVV. Here are a few other things I've made over the years!
Why similar: Experimental 78.9% ★, Adventure 8.8%, Exploration 7.9%, Indie 4.4%
- #13 Pantomime
86% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Zachary CanannPub: Squalr, Inc.
Windows
Pantomime is an immersive collection of interactive story-driven games designed to make learning English an epic adventure. Every choice you make deepens your language skills and unravels new paths in these captivating, dynamic worlds.
Why similar: Experimental 64% ★, Adventure 19.1%, Exploration 12.4%, Indie 4.4%
- #14 Scapeland
89% matchMixed58% of 67 reviews2016
Dev: 3100 games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 99%
The quiet and peaceful countryside in Scapeland is the perfect place to built up your own little paradise. Multiply your funds by selling plants and animal products. Enlarge your property, explore new areas and meet new people. This farming game is all about the happy and stress-free life of a farmer... or is it?
Why similar: Experimental 63.8% ★, Adventure 21.1%, Indie 15.1%
- #15 Vignettes
87% matchVery Positive95% of 97 reviews2019
Dev: Skeleton Business
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Vignettes is a unique exploration game without text or characters, where objects shapeshift as you spin them around to wander through a kaleidoscope of different moods and settings.
Why similar: Experimental 60.5% ★, Adventure 15.2%, Indie 12.4%, Exploration 11.9%
- #16 Kristallijn
86% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2020
Dev: Gaël Bourhis
Windows
Explore an abandoned club intermittently lit by strobe lights and try to follow in the footsteps of a strange dancer. A short first-person audio-visual experience.
Why similar: Experimental 72.5% ★, Exploration 13.4%, Adventure 10.3%, Indie 3.8%
- #17 Tyd wag vir Niemand (Time waits for Nobody)
88% matchMixed57% of 91 reviews2017
Dev: Skobbejak GamesPub: Skermunkel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manipulate time to your will at any moment to solve challenges, avoid deadly traps and make it to the end of this strange journey.
Why similar: Experimental 50.2% ★, Adventure 20.8%, Indie 18.3%, Exploration 10.6%
- #18 Observer
84% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Observer Studio
Windows
Observer is a 3D hand-drawn cartoon roguelite game. You will become the legendary heroes of the forest, choose a new destiny for them, and guard this mysterious forest for them.
Why similar: Experimental 83.7% ★, Adventure 8.2%, Indie 8.1%
- #19 Post Cards
84% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2021
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
A collection of three small games. Catch fish on an ocean, solve a riddle in a desert, and make stew in a grove - all within 3 post card sized games.
Why similar: Experimental 74.9% ★, Indie 25.1%
- #20 Lumiland
83% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: miyehn
Windows · Mac
A sokoban-like 3D puzzle game in a colorful, stylized world of light and shadow.
Why similar: Experimental 74.1% ★, Adventure 12.8%, Exploration 8.9%, Indie 4.2%
- #21 SUPERCHICOS
82% matchVery Positive87% of 62 reviews2020
Dev: Waraní StudiosPub: Niño Emprendedor SRL
Windows · Mac
Juego en tercera persona para niños y padres. Es un pequeño mundo abierto donde los niños pueden aprender a emprender en pequeños negocios como la venta de limonadas, pasteles y también aprender sobre finanzas, con entretenidas misiones e importantes moralejas para la vida.
Why similar: Experimental 75.5% ★, Adventure 19.6%, Indie 4.8%
- #22 炼器师
82% matchMixed57% of 40 reviews2020
Dev: 岗成年
Windows
"Smelter" is a simulated game. There are nine levels of refiners in the game: Apprentice, Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced, Master, Grandmaster, Excellent, Horcrux, and Artifact. Exercise yourrefining ability and gradually become a magic refining master,who isadmired by the world.
Why similar: Experimental 44.8% ★, Idler 24.4%, Adventure 16.5%, Exploration 10.2%, Indie 4.1%
- #23 Mummy Sandbox
79% matchVery Positive96% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Z. Bill
Windows
Mummy Sandbox is a first person digging simulator meets point & click adventure. Traverse forgotten sandboxes and dig up corpses to learn their secrets!
Why similar: Experimental 76.8% ★, Adventure 17.7%, Indie 5.5%
- #24 Walden, a game
81% matchVery Positive83% of 115 reviews2019
Dev: USC Game Innovation LabPub: USC Games
Windows · Mac
Take on Henry David Thoreau’s classic adventure in living simply in nature as you explore this epic open world game based on the story of Thoreau’s life in the woods alone at Walden Pond.
Why similar: Experimental 46.1% ★, Adventure 23.6%, Indie 19%, Exploration 11.3%
- #25 The logic inside
80% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Vitok
Windows
Purpose of the game: You need to draw a line on the screen from point A to point B. The game has 13 levels. The difficulty increases with each level. There are teleports, enemies.
Why similar: Experimental 60.8% ★, Idler 28.1%, Adventure 6.2%, Indie 4.9%
- #26 spider ponds
81% matchMostly Negative32% of 25 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
A game bout being a spider. Weave a web in the swamps. Catch prey, avoid other pedators, and follow a mysterious creature...
Why similar: Adventure 39.5%, Experimental 30.5% ★, Indie 30%
- #27 10mg: Always Down
78% matchPositive98% of 41 reviews2020
Dev: Stuffed WombatPub: 10mg
Windows
10mg is a collection of 10 minute long games. Always Down is about going away.
Why similar: Experimental 66.9% ★, Adventure 16.2%, Exploration 13.3%, Indie 3.6%
- #28 kamer
79% matchMixed64% of 25 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Sokpop S02: kamer - a short game about daydreaming. Come home, walk around your room, and let your thoughts flow freely...
Why similar: Experimental 47.1% ★, Indie 42.9%, Exploration 10%
- #29 Membrane
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Noe Abc
Windows
I had lost all contact with my sister when she suddenly called me from a Tokyo suburb consumed by the Membrane, a curse that blurs the line between nightmares and reality. Fight shadows and your own fears in this psychological horror exploration game.
Why similar: Experimental 66.2% ★, Exploration 16.6%, Adventure 10.9%, Indie 6.3%
- #30 Dark spot
78% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: Vitok
Windows
Dark spot puzzle game with hand drawn graphics. Use the mouse to move the dark spot and try not to drop it. The goal of the game is to collect all the stars on the screen and go to the exit. At the moment there are 14 levels available with pleasant music. The difficulty increases with each level.
Why similar: Experimental 62.6% ★, Idler 23.3%, Indie 14.2%
- #31 Grey Scout
77% matchPositive90% of 30 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
An atmospheric stealth game set on a rainy island. Step out of your boat, sneak through the lush meadows, and try to rescue as many guarded friends!
Why similar: Experimental 66.5% ★, Exploration 15.3%, Adventure 13.3%, Indie 4.9%
- #32 The Walking Fish 2: Final Frontier
75% matchVery Positive90% of 567 reviews2020
Dev: That Fish
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 47%
The Walking Fish returns, this time in space, in an all-new fish comedy horror experience. Stuck on a space station, you have to solve the mystery of the Walking Fish, and escape its terror.
Why similar: Experimental 65.4% ★, Adventure 19.8%, Indie 14.8%
- #33 Bodyless
76% matchVery Positive82% of 60 reviews2020
Dev: NarriFlux
Windows
Bodyless is a VR journey set during Taiwan’s martial law era. You inhabit the ghost of a political prisoner, moving through fragmented spaces where folklore and surveillance intertwine. As environments distort, the line between memory and reality begins to dissolve.
Why similar: Experimental 52.1% ★, Indie 23.3%, Adventure 15.4%, Exploration 9.2%
- #34 pemsa
73% matchVery Positive91% of 162 reviews2022
Dev: Rexcellent Games
Windows · Linux
pemsa is an unofficial cart runner for the famous PICO-8 fantasy console. We've included some classic games developed for this console with permission from the authors, including Celeste, Slipways & Hug Arena.
Why similar: Experimental 87.1% ★, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 5.5%
- #35 Light Of Gallery
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TeamOFF
Windows
Light Of Gallery is brand New Maze Running Game! Escape From the Secret Art Hall!
Why similar: Experimental 65.6% ★, Exploration 13%, Adventure 12.6%, Indie 8.8%
- #36 Granite Noir: The Social Experiment
66% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Black Potion
Windows · Mac · Linux
One wish to shape a game forever. Wait 2 hours in darkness, make your request, and watch it become real for those who comes after.
Why similar: Experimental 73.8% ★, Exploration 11.4%, Indie 10.3%, Adventure 4.5%
- #37 Escape Knox Manor
74% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: JTA Games
Windows
Escape rooms are fun! But Escape Knox Manor asks the question what if you were actually kidnapped? And what if you had to escape a mansion? Find out now!
Why similar: Experimental 87.4% ★, Exploration 8.1%, Indie 4.5%
- #38 The Basement Collection
76% matchVery Positive87% of 1,586 reviews2012
Dev: Edmund McMillen
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 48%
A collection of 9 award winning indie games from the creator of "Binding of isaac" and "Super Meat Boy"!
Why similar: Experimental 61.4% ★, Indie 23.6%, Adventure 15%
- #39 a Museum of Dubious Splendors
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 173 reviews2018
Dev: Studio Oleomingus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 37%
a Museum of Dubious Splendors, is a storybook from the world of Somewhere. A quiet game about prosaic objects and spurious histories, it is an irreverent rumination on the nature of an archive and forms of recollection.
Why similar: Experimental 48.8% ★, Adventure 29%, Indie 22.2%
- #40 That Tiny Spaceship
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: We Make Small Games
Windows
A small retro inspired indie shmup that takes inspiration from the pixel games of yesterday and combines it with modern game engine technology.
Why similar: Experimental 85.4% ★, Indie 14.6%
- #41 Doggo Quest
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: meebob
Windows · Mac · Linux
Doggo Quest is a quirky watercolored RPG featuring a lost dog trying to find its way home.
Why similar: Experimental 71% ★, Exploration 14.7%, Adventure 13.3%, Indie 1%
- #42 no more surffer
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: hansey gamesPub: hansey games
Windows
enter a dark 2d platform style game with choices to speak the truth and the lie it will only depend on the path you want to follow and beware of the ending you will achieve
Why similar: Experimental 80.9% ★, Adventure 14.6%, Indie 4.6%
- #43 2002XX
72% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Gus Jewell
Windows
The Ultimate Trip
Why similar: Experimental 76.6% ★, Adventure 23.4%
- #44 LAMINA BRUISE
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nicola Acler
Windows · Mac
Under the cloud, pressure is crushing – only machines survive in the open. LAMINA BRUISE is a narrative-driven first-person adventure. Solve thoughtful puzzles and overcome revealing obstacles in a tense, hostile environment.
Why similar: Experimental 75% ★, Exploration 11.7%, Indie 9.2%, Adventure 4.1%
- #45 Corporate Cut: The Hair-Raising Adventure of an Office Employee
65% matchPositive88% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: Hairington Games
Windows
“Corporate Cut” is a satirical adventure set in a bizarre hair-obsessed magazine company. As the new intern, you’ll experience the struggle to fit in while exploring the boundaries between conformity and innovation. Expect intricate lore, experimental game design, and of course… many hair puns!
Why similar: Experimental 69.9% ★, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 10.8%, Exploration 8.5%
- #46 XPock
71% matchMixed64% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: DnovelPub: My Way Games
Windows
Shoot, Fly, Open, Win.
Why similar: Experimental 75.1% ★, Adventure 20.2%, Indie 4.7%
- #47 Lightbox
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: D5R Games
Windows · Mac
A casual puzzle game about manipulating and playing with light.
Why similar: Experimental 94.1% ★, Indie 5.9%
- #48 10mg :)
70% matchVery Positive98% of 88 reviews2020
Dev: torcadoPub: 10mg
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play a series of tiny games based on well-known classics, each with a unique twist and connected to each other. Race cars, hit golf balls, uncover mines, and more in this experimental action/puzzle game.
Why similar: Experimental 94.9% ★, Indie 5.1%
- #49 Spirit Messages
72% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Kevin WacknovPub: Mind Body Aware Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Type your question for the Spirit World to answer, then click the start button. Whatever the letters, numbers, and shapes remind you of, is the answer.
Why similar: Experimental 87.2% ★, Exploration 12.8%
- #50 sok-worlds
71% matchVery Positive81% of 99 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 6 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Make and explore 3d collage worlds in sok-worlds! Release your inner creativity and use internet images to create weird, funny or artsy worlds!
Why similar: Experimental 76.3% ★, Indie 23.7%
- #51 OfficeBots: Reality Bytes [VR]
73% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: FutureStateMachine
Windows
OfficeBots: Reality Bytes is a little game with a big heart. Explore a wonderfully weird corporate office, listen to your robotic co-workers’ stories, and help to solve their problems. Ultimately your goal is to find a way to escape, but your journey to freedom will give you many opportunities to brighten up another's life.
Why similar: Experimental 51.7% ★, Adventure 21.8%, Indie 16.4%, Exploration 10%
- #52 Trauma
74% matchMixed69% of 687 reviews2011
Dev: Krystian Majewski
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 24%
An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.
Why similar: Experimental 64.4% ★, Adventure 19.8%, Indie 15.8%
- #53 Torchway
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Luxorix Games
Windows
Control the light to explore ancient tombs and find hidden treasures!
Why similar: Experimental 70.6% ★, Exploration 15.8%, Adventure 8.3%, Indie 5.3%
- #54 Escape from Covid
68% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: Justin M.
Windows
Escape from Covid is a fun and exciting platformer. Guide your character through a contaminated world in which you have to escape the virus. Fight challenging bosses.
Why similar: Experimental 78% ★, Adventure 22%
- #55 All the Delicate Duplicates
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 45 reviews2017
Dev: Mez BreezePub: The Space
Windows
John, a single father, inherits a collection of arcane objects from his mysterious relative named Mo. Over time, John and his daughter Charlotte begin to realise that these objects have unusual properties: the more they are exposed to them, the more their reality and memories appear to change.
Why similar: Experimental 63.3% ★, Indie 23.3%, Exploration 13.4%
- #56 Popup.exe
59% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Monu
Windows
A chill idle game in the corner of your screen. Popups spawn. Close them. Earn money. Buy upgrades. Repeat.
Why similar: Experimental 65% ★, Idler 31.6%, Indie 3.4%
- #57 ADONIS
67% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2020
Dev: Lorenzo Entertainment
Windows
Adonis is a stylized, open world action game that focuses on third person combat & platforming!
Why similar: Experimental 72.9% ★, Exploration 11%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 6.6%
- #58 Otem's Defiance
70% matchPositive100% of 28 reviews2016
Dev: HyperBerry Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 99%
You play as Otem, a child who has been chosen as a sacrifice to the gods of his tribe. As they materialize in the center of the ring-shaped arena, you must dodge their attacks and fight back to survive the ritual and uncover the secrets of this gruesome tradition lead by the mysterious Shaman.
Why similar: Experimental 73.2% ★, Indie 26.8%