- #1 Cosmic Flow: A Relaxing VR Experience
97% matchVery Positive96% of 204 reviews2020
Dev: vedev
Windows
Cosmic Flow is a relaxing visual experience, an audio-visual massage for the mind, a kaleidoscopic meditation.
Why similar: Experience 52.4% ★, Indie 25%, Experimental 22.6%
- #2 Mind Muscle VR
96% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: Jackson Stock
Windows
Improve your fitness level and mind-muscle connection using virtual reality and the power of visualization.
Why similar: Experience 66.3% ★, Experimental 33.7%
- #3 Shrinking Pains
96% matchVery Positive85% of 227 reviews2018
Dev: Bedtime Phobias
Windows
You spend a day seeing how many coins you can fit into the hollows above your collarbones. You're losing yourself first in inches, then moments... Will you survive yourself?
Why similar: Experience 56.9% ★, Experimental 30.1%, Indie 13%
- #4 🔴 Circles
95% matchVery Positive90% of 270 reviews2017
Dev: Jeroen Wimmers
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Circles is an abstract puzzle game that takes your mind off things. No words, no distractions: an invitation to experiment. Relax, let your mind wander and discover the puzzling possibilities of circles.
Why similar: Experience 55.3% ★, Experimental 35.3%, Puzzle 6.9%, Indie 2.5%
- #5 Banyu Lintar Angin - Little Storm -
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 899 reviews2018
Dev: MojikenPub: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Banyu Lintar Angin is a series of experimental illustrations about three siblings, living together independently in a rural Indonesian environment.
Why similar: Experience 58% ★, Experimental 25.6%, Indie 16.4%
- #6 Overseas
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 26 reviews2019
Dev: Yuliya KozhemyakoPub: IBORG
Windows
Overseas is a collection of four short art games, or digital poems. So far, it includes four episodes: a psychedelic trip, a forest horror, a crash course on shamanic techniques, and a simulator of an identity crisis. Take a journey across worlds and figure out the obscure meaning of what is going on.
Why similar: Experience 54.2% ★, Experimental 24%, Indie 12.7%, Mystery 9.1%
- #7 Impressions
93% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Infinite Level
Windows
WE'RE NOT ALONE. HOW DO YOU FEEL? Take on the role of a news pundit in Impressions. Give your thoughts on the discovery of aliens to the people watching and shape the world's perception on the newly discovered aliens.
Why similar: Experience 76.2% ★, Indie 23.8%
- #8 Ramiwo
91% 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 52.7%, Indie 35.1%, Puzzle 12.2%
- #9 OfficeBots: Reality Bytes [VR]
92% 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: Experience 56.7% ★, Experimental 26.5%, Indie 16.7%
- #10 Heal
89% matchVery Positive84% of 807 reviews2020
Dev: Jesse Makkonen
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
Why similar: Experience 50.3% ★, Experimental 20.6%, Indie 11.1%, Mystery 9.7%, Puzzle 8.2%
- #11 Flowers for You: a pleasant walk
89% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2021
Dev: Day Art's Games
Windows
It's your mother's birthday. Walk through a beautiful stylized nature and colect the most beautiful flowers to prepare a gift to her.
Why similar: Experience 59% ★, Experimental 35%, Indie 6%
- #12 Memoir En Code: Reissue
91% 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 60%, Indie 40%
- #13 Temple of the Apsara
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 51 reviews2016
Dev: Attraction Studios
Windows
Temple of the Apsara is a VR exploration adventure puzzle experience unlike any other for the HTC VIVE.From the breathtaking mountainside to the depths of the ancient ruins, Temple of the Apsara is a journey unlike any other you’ve ever been on.
Why similar: Experience 74.5% ★, Indie 25.5%
- #14 Ord.
87% matchVery Positive93% of 275 reviews2019
Dev: Mujo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Ord. tells stories three words at a time.
Why similar: Experience 63.6% ★, Experimental 23.1%, Indie 13.3%
- #15 AENTITY
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 66 reviews2018
Dev: ARQUOIA
Windows
AENTITY challenges you as an artist. Leaving my mind behind, the contours of the ego blur. Past the dream wall are no rules to break, there are playful moves to make, veiled visions to wake, unseen pictures to take.
Why similar: Experience 61.3% ★, Experimental 28.7%, Mystery 10.1%
- #16 The Good Time Garden
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,881 reviews2019
Dev: Coal Supper
Windows · Mac
Explore a throbbing pink world full of strange naked creatures to gather food for your friend in this short, surreal experience.
Why similar: Experience 59% ★, Experimental 23.6%, Indie 17.4%
- #17 NYKRA: Before
84% matchMixed61% of 137 reviews2021
Dev: ENDESGA
Windows
A narrative-driven sci-fi platformer game, set in the first born galaxy of the Heptaverse: Nykra. You travel the ancient and abandoned planets in the hopes to find the origins of your existence.
Why similar: Experience 44% ★, Experimental 20.6%, Indie 20%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%
- #18 Close Me
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 118 reviews2017
Dev: Yai Gameworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
You start the game, you wake up, and eventually you will close the game. One day, you may even start the game again. That's the game.
Why similar: Experience 51.1% ★, Experimental 26.1%, Indie 12.8%, Mystery 10%
- #19 Triennale Game Collection
86% 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 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #20 The Dawn of Art
82% matchVery Positive94% of 156 reviews2020
Dev: Atlas V
Windows
Explore the Chauvet Cave 36,000 years ago, with Daisy Ridley’s voice as your guide. It’s in the Ardèche gorges, in the south of France, that our ancestors drew humanity’s first masterpieces, giving life to their beliefs. Maybe you will also meet the cave bear…
Why similar: Experience 69.3% ★, Indie 30.7%
- #21 Gravity Bone
83% matchVery Positive94% of 508 reviews2018
Dev: Blendo Games
Windows
To make it in Nuevos Aires, one needs nerves of silk and the filthiest of hands.
Why similar: Experience 53.6% ★, Experimental 27.2%, Indie 19.3%
- #22 -KLAUS-
84% matchVery Positive86% of 117 reviews2019
Dev: La Cosa
Windows
Klaus is lost and alone. Who? Where? Why? He doesn't know anything. Only you can help him find the truth. Join Klaus and K1 - a friendly brute - as you explore this puzzle platform game, through a geometric kaleidoscopic world with high contrast and pop art.
Why similar: Experience 55.7% ★, Experimental 24.2%, Indie 14.5%, Puzzle 5.6%
- #23 Meditation VR
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 97 reviews2020
Dev: Better Than Life
Windows
Birds high up in the sky, waves rolling in on the shore, the wind blowing through palm trees and plants that grow on your private secluded island all contribute both visually and in sound to a surreal experience that practically makes you feel the ocean breeze.
Why similar: Experience 72% ★, Experimental 22.1%, Indie 5.9%
- #24 The Wind and the Wisp
70% matchVery Positive96% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: Lil Buddy ProductionsPub: USC Games
Windows · Mac
A 3D adventure game about blowing into the microphone. Join the Wind, a non-corporeal petal breeze, and the Wisp, a little white ghost with a red ribbon, on their journey to repair a mysterious broken garden.
Why similar: Experience 89.8% ★, Indie 8.6%, Puzzle 1.6%
- #25 Pluviophile
80% matchVery Positive89% of 319 reviews2020
Dev: Tonguç Bodur
Windows
Pluviophile is a very short experience about the mood of rain in the woods.
Why similar: Experience 86.5% ★, Indie 13.5%
- #26 Timber Jump VR
81% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Techfragout
Windows
Timber Jump is a VR game mimicking a true adventure experience that will make you face and conquer your height fears, and allow you to feel the experience of jumping between timbers above mountains.
Why similar: Experimental 49.7%, Experience 44.5% ★, Indie 5.7%
- #27 Mosaic
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 544 reviews2019
Dev: Krillbite StudioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Enter a world that’s utterly surreal and eerily familiar. Escape the mundanity of your existence in an experience that will stay with you. Mosaic is a narrative-driven modern adventure game with a story that lasts about 2-3 hours.
Why similar: Experience 67.7% ★, Indie 32.3%
- #28 Let It Happen
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Supr Experience
Windows
Let It Happen is a physics-simulation game inspired by recent democratic protests in Russia. Place protesters and police in the square, click on Let It Happen! and enjoy the show. Explore the city: it has a bunch of interactive locations.
Why similar: Experience 57.9% ★, Experimental 27.1%, Indie 14.9%
- #29 Singularity
79% matchMixed50% of 16 reviews2020
Dev: Jingjing ShenPub: Screen South
Windows
A Virtual Reality Art piece, exploring the Law of accelerating returns and the development of A.I.
Why similar: Experience 53.5% ★, Experimental 46.5%
- #30 XPock
78% matchMixed64% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: DnovelPub: My Way Games
Windows
Shoot, Fly, Open, Win.
Why similar: Experimental 50.5%, Experience 43.2% ★, Indie 6.3%
- #31 Faking to Dance
75% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Datawheel
Windows
Faking to Dance is a VR music video featuring music from Breaking Forms. Enjoy intense guitar riffs and powerful vocals in a visual feast that is out of this world.
Why similar: Experience 72.6% ★, Indie 27.4%
- #32 Metro Trip Simulator
79% matchMixed55% of 75 reviews2019
Dev: Metro 2.0.7.7Pub: Kavkaz Sila Games
Windows
Metro trip simulator
Why similar: Experience 68.1% ★, Experimental 31.9%
- #33 Britannic
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 132 reviews2020
Dev: Interactive Gaming Studios
Windows
Welcome aboard the HMHS Britannic, the sister ship to the RMS Titanic. Experience first-hand how the biggest ship in the world met its demise in 1916 after striking a mine during World War 1.
Why similar: Experience 90.7% ★, Indie 9.3%
- #34 Feast Your Eyes
77% matchPositive88% of 25 reviews2020
Dev: Yai Gameworks
Windows
A surreal and quiet horror tale about a murderous little marshmallow who's escaped death row. A mysterious plague that makes people stare at dirt... Creepy love letters trying to win your affection... You may have closed your eyes, but now it's time to feast.
Why similar: Experience 52.7% ★, Experimental 24.7%, Indie 13.9%, Mystery 8.7%
- #35 EXP: War Trauma
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cortez Productions
Windows
A Psychological Horror Experience about Traumas of a Soldier from WW2
Why similar: Experience 90.5% ★, Puzzle 8%, Indie 1.5%
- #36 The Haunted House VR Movie Ep. 1 "Missing"
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AIXLAB
Windows
남형사는 아내를 잃고 고등학생 딸과 함께 지내고 있다. 어느날 딸의 갑작스런 실종. 딸의 친구를 통해 딸이 오컬트 마니아라는 것을 듣고 충격에 빠진다. 딸의 마지막 행적이 영덕에 있는 흉가였다는 것을 알게 된 남형사는 달빛조차 없는 어두운 산속 도로를 달려 영덕 흉가에 도착하는데...
Why similar: Experience 60.1% ★, Indie 39.9%
- #37 Britannic: Patroness of the Mediterranean
74% matchVery Positive90% of 840 reviews2020
Dev: Vintage Digital Revival
Windows · Mac
Explore the Britannic, sister ship of the infamous Titanic, and relive her tragic sinking after striking a mine in the First World War.
Why similar: Experience 85.6% ★, Indie 14.4%
- #38 Music is the Language
73% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: Datawheel
Windows
Music is The Language is a VR music video featuring a new song by DJ Dani Magnani. Explore a mystical planet, following the surround beat of trumpets, voice, and guitars, in this surreal experience.
Why similar: Experience 76.2% ★, Indie 23.8%
- #39 Yi and the Thousand Moons
77% matchVery Positive82% of 209 reviews2017
Dev: David Su
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 9%
Yi and the Thousand Moons is a short video game musical written and developed by David Su. Through the course of several original interactive songs, featuring a full cast and live band, the game weaves a story of the archer Yi's journey to save her village.
Why similar: Experience 56.6% ★, Experimental 30.3%, Indie 13.1%
- #40 kamer
76% 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: Indie 64.4%, Experimental 35.6%
- #41 Here There Be Bears
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ursa Mayhem
Windows
Here There Be Bears puts the player in the head of Sam, a 20 something dealing with after effects of a caving accident years prior. Or did she actually ever escape the cave?
Why similar: Experience 100% ★
- #42 Close Encounter VR
74% matchMixed63% of 32 reviews2020
Dev: Wolf Tango Games
Windows
Experience the thrill of a UFO sighting and the terror of an alien abduction as you come face to face with extraterrestrial beings! Don't worry, everything will be fine in the end, I promise!
Why similar: Experience 90.8% ★, Indie 9.2%
- #43 偷外卖模拟器(我在2083年的末世求生)
66% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: 冻星游戏
Windows
In 2083, I couldn’t survive, I started stealing takeout food.This is a 3D shooting game with a story-oriented approach. It is very simple to play, and the whole story has over 10,000 Chinese words.
Why similar: Experience 71% ★, Experimental 22.4%, Indie 6.6%
- #44 Post Cards
71% matchPositive81% of 27 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 60%, Indie 40%
- #45 Kebab Simulator
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KebabstaPub: Kavkaz Sila Games
Windows
Cook kebab in comfort of your home
Why similar: Experience 68.1% ★, Experimental 31.9%
- #46 Murder...
75% matchMixed61% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: Jack GloyensPub: Flying Interactive
Windows
An unassuming village with only a handful of residents, but one of them is a murderer! Use your skills as a master detective to put the clues together and deduce which one of them is the villain. Good luck detective...
Why similar: Indie 39.5%, Mystery 36.5%, Puzzle 24%
- #47 Delirium
72% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Kumova Slama
Windows
A psychological game about hardships of depression, life, being stuck, enraged and unable to fight. Unable to find the reason to continue and touches the dark side: The rage, hate, denial and definitely the wish for it to stop and for you to give up... But that's the easy way that leads nowhere...
Why similar: Experience 46.9% ★, Indie 31.1%, Experimental 22%
- #48 Lusitania: The Experience
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 70 reviews2020
Dev: Interactive Gaming Studios
Windows
Welcome aboard the RMS Lusitania, a luxurious ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat during World War 1. Immerse yourself in this detailed unique experience of how this great liner met its final moments on the 7th May 1915.
Why similar: Experience 90.6% ★, Indie 9.4%
- #49 Terry's Other Games
59% matchVery Positive99% of 70 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 75.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Indie 8.4%
- #50 10mg :)
68% 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 70.3%, Puzzle 14%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%, Indie 7.5%
- #51 Locally Sourced Anthology II: The Timeline
58% 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 67.6%, Indie 24%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
- #52 DemonicGuestVR
73% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2016
Dev: Mgsstudio
Windows
A small VR Horror Experience for VR **BIG Update Coming 2022**
Why similar: Experience 100% ★
- #53 Blade Walker
68% matchMixed58% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: JW Eel Slug
Windows
Find clues and solve puzzles to escape
Why similar: Experimental 60.4%, Puzzle 16.8%, Mystery 15%, Indie 7.8%
- #54 Buzludzha VR
69% matchPositive92% of 48 reviews2019
Dev: Augmade Ltd
Windows
Embark on an immersive Virtual Reality adventure and discover one of Europe’s most iconic, abandoned structures. Fly the helicopter, play the grand piano, climb the 70m high tower, mess around with a wine gun, all while you uncover the secrets of this UFO-shaped communist legend.
Why similar: Experience 87% ★, Indie 13%
- #55 Miegakure: Hide & Reveal
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mtb design works, inc.
Windows
Miegakure is a game where you navigate a four-dimensional world to perform miraculous feats and solve puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 76.2%, Puzzle 23.8%
- #56 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
69% matchVery Positive91% of 57 reviews2019
Dev: James Earl Cox III
Windows
A short wordless adaptation of a Civil War story.
Why similar: Experience 55.2% ★, Experimental 25.8%, Indie 18.9%
- #57 Escape Knox Manor
69% 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 66.4%, Mystery 14.2%, Puzzle 12.5%, Indie 6.9%
- #58 The 22nd is Serda. f0a178
60% 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 63.2%, Puzzle 13.4%, Mystery 12.9%, Indie 10.6%
- #59 Lightbox
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: D5R Games
Windows · Mac
A casual puzzle game about manipulating and playing with light.
Why similar: Experimental 75.8%, Puzzle 14.8%, Indie 9.4%