Top Experimental Games
60+ experimental games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Singleplayer, Indie, Casual, Atmospheric.
Recommended Experimental Games

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

Townscaper
Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.
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- #1 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,921 reviews2020Developer: Nikita KryukovPublisher: Nikita Igorevich StudioPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 24mMean: 7.2h≥1hr: 11%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
- #2 Townscaper98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,438 reviews2021Developer: Oskar StålbergPublisher: Raw FuryPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 42mMean: 8.6h≥1hr: 43%
Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.
- #3 Pony Island98% matchVery Positive95% of 17,910 reviews2016Developer: Daniel Mullins GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 3.0hMean: 15.5h≥1hr: 88%
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
- #4 Nodebuster97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,575 reviews2024Developer: GoblobinPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 3.9hMean: 10.5h≥1hr: 91%
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
- #5 Comedy Night97% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,209 reviews2017Developer: Lighthouse Games StudioPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 3.4hMean: 9.8h≥1hr: 76%
Tell jokes, sing songs, make friends or heckle. Comedy Night captures the fun experience of a real comedy club.
- #6 SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE96% matchVery Positive84% of 12,477 reviews2020Developer: SUPERHOT TeamPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 2.2hMean: 6.7h≥1hr: 68%
The long-awaited third game in the groundbreaking SUPERHOT franchise - MIND CONTROL DELETE gives you more insight into the world of SUPERHOT, more story, more signature gameplay. Keep dancing the slow-motion ballet of destruction for so much longer than ever before.
- #7 Atopes96% matchVery Positive94% of 656 reviews2021Developer: Sato FumiyaPlatforms: Windows
Your future is vaster than the cosmos.
- #8 Juice Galaxy96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,976 reviews2023Developer: FishlickaPublisher: J4D3D LLCPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 1.7hMean: 11.1h≥1hr: 62%
Juice Galaxy is a happy place to fly around and smack things and drink juice. And explore things. And just, flip around doing stuff.
- #9 The one who pulls out the sword will be crowned king95% matchVery Positive91% of 8,727 reviews2022Developer: MajorariattoPlatforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Are you The Rightful King™ or just a filthy peasant? The sword is waiting for you to lift it, but it gets longer and heavier each time someone else succeeds...
- #10 NKODICE94% matchVery Positive96% of 425 reviews2021Developer: KSYMPlatforms: Windows
NKO DICE is an adaptation of a traditional Japanese dice game Chinchirorin. The game features graphics that recreate the atmosphere of a post-war Japanese gambling hall, along with traditional Japanese music.
- #11 Idle Slayer93% matchVery Positive85% of 10,157 reviews2020Developer: Pablo LebanPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 8.7hMean: 100.5h≥1hr: 81%
Idle Slayer is an incremental game with idle and active playstyle mechanics, medieval pixel art visuals and retro 8-bit sounds and music.
- #12 Manifold Garden93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,118 reviews2020Developer: William Chyr StudioPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 3.6hMean: 5.4h≥1hr: 79%
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
- #13 14 Minesweeper Variants92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,535 reviews2022Developer: Alith GamesPublisher: Artless GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 9.6hMean: 37.3h≥1hr: 81%
Minesweeper but the rules are changing.
- #14 Press Any Button92% matchVery Positive90% of 3,766 reviews2021Developer: Eugene ZubkoPlatforms: Windows
This video game realized how boring it had been and now is trying its best to fix that.
- #15 Port of Call92% matchVery Positive88% of 1,273 reviews2015Developer: Underdog GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 42mMean: 11.8h≥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.
- #16 Heliborne Collection91% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,985 reviews2017Developer: KlabaterPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 4.7hMean: 11.0h≥1hr: 83%
Rotary-wing aviation and helicopter combat with a dynamic battlefield and the support of ground forces. Appreciated for MMO elements and an addictive gameplay loop. Use tactics and make strategic decisions or fly around and shoot in historically accurate maps.
- #17 Dinner Date92% matchMixed55% of 831 reviews2011Developer: Stout GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 24mMean: 6.9h≥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...
- #18 Understand90% matchVery Positive91% of 802 reviews2020Developer: Artless GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 2.1hMean: 5.9h≥1hr: 66%
Understand is an experimental puzzle game about guessing rules. In each level, you have to figure out the rules through trial and error, then draw a line satisfying all rules.
- #19 Cloud Gardens89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,285 reviews2021Developer: NoioPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 48mMean: 5.5h≥1hr: 45%
A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas
- #20 Triennale Game Collection90% matchVery Positive81% of 111 reviews2016Developer: Mario von RickenbachPublisher: Santa RagionePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 48mMean: 7.2h≥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.
- #21 Progressbar9589% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,419 reviews2020Developer: Igor UdusliviiPublisher: Spooky House Studios UG haftungsbeschraenktPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 3.6hMean: 10.3h≥1hr: 72%
Progressbar95 is a unique indie game with a strong nostalgic vibe. It turns vintage GUI elements like panels, buttons and icons into game elements! Simple and addictive gameplay based on dozens of mini-games and puzzles. The game will make you smile!
- #22 Windowkill87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,560 reviews2024Developer: torcadoPlatforms: Windows, LinuxMedian: 1.8hMean: 3.1h≥1hr: 66%
Windowkill is a twin-stick shooter, but the game window itself is constantly closing in on you. Shoot the window edges to push it around your screen as you fight and dodge enemies and bosses in their own windows.
- #23 Mountain88% matchVery Positive88% of 16,289 reviews2014Developer: David OReillyPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 6.2hMean: 103.3h≥1hr: 81%
Existential Nature Simulation
- #24 A Raven Monologue88% matchVery Positive94% of 2,710 reviews2018Developer: MojikenPublisher: Toge ProductionsPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 12mMean: 3.7h≥1hr: 18%
A Raven Monologue is a short experimental silent story about a raven that does not know how to croak and his relationship with the people in the town.
- #25 AccrO85% matchMostly Positive76% of 197 reviews2022Developer: Walter MachadoPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 3.3hMean: 3.7h≥1hr: 74%
AccrO is a Full Acrobatic Quadcopter Simulator, with realistic flight behavior and complex physics simulation. A training tool for freestyle drone enthusiasts.
- #26 Paratopic85% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,101 reviews2018Developer: Arbitrary MetricPublisher: Serenity ForgePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 54mMean: 5.3h≥1hr: 47%
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
- #27 The Basement Collection84% matchVery Positive87% of 1,586 reviews2012Developer: Edmund McMillenPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 54mMean: 4.1h≥1hr: 48%
A collection of 9 award winning indie games from the creator of "Binding of isaac" and "Super Meat Boy"!
- #28 Proteus84% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,783 reviews2013Developer: Ed Key and David KanagaPublisher: Twisted TreePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 18mMean: 2.0h≥1hr: 18%
Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.
- #29 大千世界83% matchVery Positive86% of 2,363 reviews2020Developer: 滑稽工作室Platforms: Windows
小明因黑人抬棺穿越到神秘新大陆开始了传(造)奇(孽)的一生。这是一款颠覆性的RPG扮演类游戏,是一个完全的开放性世界,你不再被主线剧情所拘束可以自由的在这个世界的各个角落探索,寻找宝物,或是完成一件件难忘的冒险。在游戏中做一个坏人亦或者是一个好人都由你自己决定,你还可以加入各种门派,学习绝学,制作装备炼制法宝等等,直到你从一个屌丝成长为一个大屌丝!
- #30 Say No! More82% matchVery Positive89% of 2,790 reviews2021Developer: Studio FizbinPublisher: Thunderful PublishingPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 1.9hMean: 7.1h≥1hr: 67%
SAY NO! MORE is the world’s first NPG (NO!-Playing Game). Play as an intern with a burning desire to say NO! to everything and everyone. Customize your character, say NO! in different styles and languages, clap back at mean colleagues and change the world!
- #31 Thirty Flights of Loving84% matchMixed63% of 1,876 reviews2012Developer: Blendo GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 30mMean: 54m≥1hr: 18%
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
- #32 Disillusion81% matchVery Positive94% of 907 reviews2021Developer: Disillusion DevPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 1.2hMean: 4.9h≥1hr: 56%
A mysterious muse calls upon you to investigate a Large tower in an oneiric land.
- #33 OK/NORMAL82% matchVery Positive81% of 602 reviews2018Developer: 98DEMAKEPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 54mMean: 2.3h≥1hr: 46%
OK/NORMAL is a short, experimental third-person horror experience, inspired by early 3D console games of the 90's. Journey through a dark, disjointed, dreamlike dimension with your cloud companion! Remember a good diet, take your medicine, and you should be fine!
- #34 Dissolving80% matchVery Positive87% of 410 reviews2019Developer: Flying WhalePlatforms: Windows
Her ex-boyfriend became a shut-in. The girl goes to visit him... then things start to go wrong. They always do, right? Experience two stories about digital gods and loss. And remember - believe in the net.
- #35 PANORAMICAL80% matchVery Positive90% of 231 reviews2015Developer: Fernando RamalloPublisher: FinjiPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 36mMean: 48m≥1hr: 32%
Manipulate the look, sound, and feel of more than a dozen mesmerizing landscapes in this immersive musical adventure through space and time.
- #36 Life Tastes Like Cardboard78% matchVery Positive95% of 322 reviews2019Developer: DemensaPlatforms: Windows
A game about boredom and self-pity. It's about myself mostly. You walk around and press the 'interact' button. Sorry for making this.
- #37 The Walking Fish 2: Final Frontier78% matchVery Positive90% of 567 reviews2020Developer: That FishPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 48mMean: 7.2h≥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.
- #38 🔴 Circles79% matchVery Positive90% of 262 reviews2017Developer: Jeroen WimmersPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 1.4hMean: 6.4h≥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.
- #39 ISLANDS: Non-Places79% matchVery Positive83% of 365 reviews2016Developer: Carl BurtonPublisher: Carlburton LlcPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 42mMean: 1.4h≥1hr: 22%
The familiar becomes magical in this critically acclaimed interactive artscape. Explore ten scenes inspired by the everyday and let your expectations of reality be transformed. Carl Burton's other work has been featured in the New York Times, Serial, Colossal, and Medium.
- #40 Trauma80% matchMixed69% of 687 reviews2011Developer: Krystian MajewskiPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 18mMean: 1.7h≥1hr: 24%
An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.
- #41 Uplink77% matchVery Positive91% of 2,406 reviews2006Developer: Introversion SoftwarePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 30mMean: 5.0h≥1hr: 38%
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
- #42 Radio Commander: Vietnam '6478% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,032 reviews2019Developer: Serious SimPublisher: Slitherine Ltd.Platforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 3.2hMean: 5.0h≥1hr: 85%
Use the radio to give commands to the soldiers on the battlefield. Keep track of the situation based on their voice reports only. Lead US platoons to clash with Vietcong in a realistic, innovative approach to the RTS genre. Make hard choices in a narrative driven experience, and face the outcome.
- #43 The Franz Kafka Videogame79% matchMixed65% of 877 reviews2017Developer: Denis Galanin (mif2000)Publisher: Daedalic EntertainmentPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 3.0hMean: 3.8h≥1hr: 90%
An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.
- #44 SIMULACRA 276% matchVery Positive86% of 1,648 reviews2020Developer: Kaigan GamesPublisher: Neon DoctrinePlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.0hMean: 6.5h≥1hr: 75%
A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.
- #45 Tengami76% matchVery Positive81% of 1,816 reviews2015Developer: NyamyamPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 1.3hMean: 1.7h≥1hr: 66%
Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the beautifully crafted paper world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.
- #46 Mega Mosaic74% matchVery Positive93% of 342 reviews2024Developer: Mark FfrenchPublisher: Divide The PlunderPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 26.5hMean: 26.3h≥1hr: 88%
Mega Mosaic is a meditative game about completing a single enormous puzzle
- #47 The Grounding75% matchVery Positive89% of 686 reviews2020Developer: Gus JewellPlatforms: Windows
If she catches you, she kills you. Smoke 6 times without getting killed.
- #48 ВЗЛОМ ЖОПЫ75% matchVery Positive86% of 2,542 reviews2020Developer: Filasaf GamesPublisher: Dr RobotPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 12mMean: 7.0h≥1hr: 11%
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- #49 Mu Cartographer76% matchVery Positive88% of 231 reviews2016Developer: Titouan MilletPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 18mMean: 1.8h≥1hr: 34%
Colourful sandbox toy - Experimental treasure hunt. Manipulate an abstract machine to shape and explore colourful landscapes, and find the mysteries hidden in a shifting world.
- #50 Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles74% matchVery Positive85% of 1,398 reviews2024Developer: Tomas SalaPublisher: Wired ProductionsPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.9hMean: 6.3h≥1hr: 81%
Bulwark blends casual and creative building elements with touches of strategy and exploration. It's an experimental mix of genres that can be enjoyed casually or as an epic conquest featuring naval units, air units, and fortresses.
- #51 The Flood75% matchVery Positive84% of 1,245 reviews2018Developer: Ondrej AngelovicPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 12mMean: 3.5h≥1hr: 17%
The Flood is a peaceful 5 minute narrative experience in which you pilot a little boat down a river. It's a gentle reminder that sometimes we should stop worrying about our destination and just enjoy the journey.
- #52 And Yet It Moves77% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,324 reviews2009Developer: Broken RulesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 30mMean: 1.8h≥1hr: 26%
And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.
- #53 Enter The Backrooms74% matchVery Positive88% of 1,041 reviews2021Developer: Justin KrohPublisher: Cosmic Crow CreationsPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 1.6hMean: 5.7h≥1hr: 61%
An indie psychological horror experience about surviving infinity. Navigate an endless expanse of rooms, ascend through various levels, gather items and artifacts, avoid going insane, evade corrupted entities, and see just how deep the realm known as The Backrooms goes.
- #54 Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution75% matchMostly Positive74% of 988 reviews2018Developer: QuasarPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 2.3hMean: 8.6h≥1hr: 63%
Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.
- #55 Schastye75% matchMixed68% of 475 reviews2020Developer: Garage HeathenPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 24mMean: 1.1h≥1hr: 12%
A miniature frozen between the atmosphere of a small room and Castaneda with Lovecraft. The story of radical spiritual practices in the search for truth among panels and stacks.
- #56 Lighthouse Keeper74% matchMostly Positive78% of 398 reviews2020Developer: Nikita Igorevich StudioPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 18mMean: 1.1h≥1hr: 9%
This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.
- #57 Simp Simulator73% matchVery Positive83% of 270 reviews2020Developer: RIVERSIDE SPORTSPlatforms: Windows
Welcome to Simp Simulator. Queen desires money, perhaps it's time to simp! Collect as many money sacks as you could and deliver them to your queen! Hurry though, queen does not like to wait.
- #58 Hammerfight74% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,049 reviews2009Developer: Konstantin KoshutinPublisher: KranX ProductionsPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 12mMean: 4.2h≥1hr: 23%
Hammerfight is about 2D battles of flying machines equipped with various slashing, piercing and blunt weaponry.A unique combat system is based on realistic physics simulation, and it ties the movements of the rider to the movements of your mouse. As you wave the mouse, your rider swings his warhammer, smashing the foe into the wall!
- #59 pemsa72% matchVery Positive91% of 162 reviews2022Developer: Rexcellent GamesPlatforms: 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.
- #60 Nucleares72% matchVery Positive83% of 1,020 reviews2023Developer: Iván Marcelo PrettiPublisher: MicroProse SoftwarePlatforms: WindowsMedian: 5.6hMean: 20.6h≥1hr: 84%
Nuclear Reactor Simulator: Take Control. Prevent Disaster. Power the World.
