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Top Experimental Games

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

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  1. #1 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,921 reviews2020
    Developer: Nikita KryukovPublisher: Nikita Igorevich Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #2 Townscaper
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,438 reviews2021
    Developer: Oskar StålbergPublisher: Raw Fury
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #3 Pony Island
    98% matchVery Positive95% of 17,910 reviews2016
    Developer: Daniel Mullins Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #4 Nodebuster
    97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,575 reviews2024
    Developer: Goblobin
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.9hMean: 10.5h≥1hr: 91%

    Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.

  5. #5 Comedy Night
    97% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,209 reviews2017
    Developer: Lighthouse Games Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #6 SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE
    96% matchVery Positive84% of 12,477 reviews2020
    Developer: SUPERHOT Team
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #7 Atopes
    96% matchVery Positive94% of 656 reviews2021
    Developer: Sato Fumiya
    Platforms: Windows

    Your future is vaster than the cosmos.

  8. #8 Juice Galaxy
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,976 reviews2023
    Developer: FishlickaPublisher: J4D3D LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #9 The one who pulls out the sword will be crowned king
    95% matchVery Positive91% of 8,727 reviews2022
    Developer: Majorariatto
    Platforms: 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. #10 NKODICE
    94% matchVery Positive96% of 425 reviews2021
    Developer: KSYM
    Platforms: 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. #11 Idle Slayer
    93% matchVery Positive85% of 10,157 reviews2020
    Developer: Pablo Leban
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #12 Manifold Garden
    93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,118 reviews2020
    Developer: William Chyr Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #13 14 Minesweeper Variants
    92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,535 reviews2022
    Developer: Alith GamesPublisher: Artless Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 9.6hMean: 37.3h≥1hr: 81%

    Minesweeper but the rules are changing.

  14. #14 Press Any Button
    92% matchVery Positive90% of 3,766 reviews2021
    Developer: Eugene Zubko
    Platforms: Windows

    This video game realized how boring it had been and now is trying its best to fix that.

  15. #15 Port of Call
    92% matchVery Positive88% of 1,273 reviews2015
    Developer: Underdog Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #16 Heliborne Collection
    91% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,985 reviews2017
    Developer: Klabater
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #17 Dinner Date
    92% matchMixed55% of 831 reviews2011
    Developer: Stout Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #18 Understand
    90% matchVery Positive91% of 802 reviews2020
    Developer: Artless Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #19 Cloud Gardens
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,285 reviews2021
    Developer: Noio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 48mMean: 5.5h≥1hr: 45%

    A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas

  20. #20 Triennale Game Collection
    90% matchVery Positive81% of 111 reviews2016
    Developer: Mario von RickenbachPublisher: Santa Ragione
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #21 Progressbar95
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,419 reviews2020
    Developer: Igor UdusliviiPublisher: Spooky House Studios UG haftungsbeschraenkt
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #22 Windowkill
    87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,560 reviews2024
    Developer: torcado
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 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. #23 Mountain
    88% matchVery Positive88% of 16,289 reviews2014
    Developer: David OReilly
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.2hMean: 103.3h≥1hr: 81%

    Existential Nature Simulation

  24. #24 A Raven Monologue
    88% matchVery Positive94% of 2,710 reviews2018
    Developer: MojikenPublisher: Toge Productions
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #25 AccrO
    85% matchMostly Positive76% of 197 reviews2022
    Developer: Walter Machado
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #26 Paratopic
    85% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,101 reviews2018
    Developer: Arbitrary MetricPublisher: Serenity Forge
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #27 The Basement Collection
    84% matchVery Positive87% of 1,586 reviews2012
    Developer: Edmund McMillen
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #28 Proteus
    84% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,783 reviews2013
    Developer: Ed Key and David KanagaPublisher: Twisted Tree
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #29 大千世界
    83% matchVery Positive86% of 2,363 reviews2020
    Developer: 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. #30 Say No! More
    82% matchVery Positive89% of 2,790 reviews2021
    Developer: Studio FizbinPublisher: Thunderful Publishing
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #31 Thirty Flights of Loving
    84% matchMixed63% of 1,876 reviews2012
    Developer: Blendo Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #32 Disillusion
    81% matchVery Positive94% of 907 reviews2021
    Developer: Disillusion Dev
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.2hMean: 4.9h≥1hr: 56%

    A mysterious muse calls upon you to investigate a Large tower in an oneiric land.

  33. #33 OK/NORMAL
    82% matchVery Positive81% of 602 reviews2018
    Developer: 98DEMAKE
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #34 Dissolving
    80% matchVery Positive87% of 410 reviews2019
    Developer: Flying Whale
    Platforms: 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. #35 PANORAMICAL
    80% matchVery Positive90% of 231 reviews2015
    Developer: Fernando RamalloPublisher: Finji
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #36 Life Tastes Like Cardboard
    78% matchVery Positive95% of 322 reviews2019
    Developer: Demensa
    Platforms: 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. #37 The Walking Fish 2: Final Frontier
    78% matchVery Positive90% of 567 reviews2020
    Developer: That Fish
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #38 🔴 Circles
    79% matchVery Positive90% of 262 reviews2017
    Developer: Jeroen Wimmers
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #39 ISLANDS: Non-Places
    79% matchVery Positive83% of 365 reviews2016
    Developer: Carl BurtonPublisher: Carlburton Llc
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #40 Trauma
    80% matchMixed69% of 687 reviews2011
    Developer: Krystian Majewski
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 18mMean: 1.7h≥1hr: 24%

    An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.

  41. #41 Uplink
    77% matchVery Positive91% of 2,406 reviews2006
    Developer: Introversion Software
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #42 Radio Commander: Vietnam '64
    78% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,032 reviews2019
    Developer: Serious SimPublisher: Slitherine Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #43 The Franz Kafka Videogame
    79% matchMixed65% of 877 reviews2017
    Developer: Denis Galanin (mif2000)Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.0hMean: 3.8h≥1hr: 90%

    An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.

  44. #44 SIMULACRA 2
    76% matchVery Positive86% of 1,648 reviews2020
    Developer: Kaigan GamesPublisher: Neon Doctrine
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #45 Tengami
    76% matchVery Positive81% of 1,816 reviews2015
    Developer: Nyamyam
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #46 Mega Mosaic
    74% matchVery Positive93% of 342 reviews2024
    Developer: Mark FfrenchPublisher: Divide The Plunder
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 26.5hMean: 26.3h≥1hr: 88%

    Mega Mosaic is a meditative game about completing a single enormous puzzle

  47. #47 The Grounding
    75% matchVery Positive89% of 686 reviews2020
    Developer: Gus Jewell
    Platforms: Windows

    If she catches you, she kills you. Smoke 6 times without getting killed.

  48. #48 ВЗЛОМ ЖОПЫ
    75% matchVery Positive86% of 2,542 reviews2020
    Developer: Filasaf GamesPublisher: Dr Robot
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12mMean: 7.0h≥1hr: 11%

    GOTY

  49. #49 Mu Cartographer
    76% matchVery Positive88% of 231 reviews2016
    Developer: Titouan Millet
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #50 Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles
    74% matchVery Positive85% of 1,398 reviews2024
    Developer: Tomas SalaPublisher: Wired Productions
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #51 The Flood
    75% matchVery Positive84% of 1,245 reviews2018
    Developer: Ondrej Angelovic
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #52 And Yet It Moves
    77% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,324 reviews2009
    Developer: Broken Rules
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #53 Enter The Backrooms
    74% matchVery Positive88% of 1,041 reviews2021
    Developer: Justin KrohPublisher: Cosmic Crow Creations
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #54 Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
    75% matchMostly Positive74% of 988 reviews2018
    Developer: Quasar
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #55 Schastye
    75% matchMixed68% of 475 reviews2020
    Developer: Garage Heathen
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #56 Lighthouse Keeper
    74% matchMostly Positive78% of 398 reviews2020
    Developer: Nikita Igorevich Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #57 Simp Simulator
    73% matchVery Positive83% of 270 reviews2020
    Developer: RIVERSIDE SPORTS
    Platforms: 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. #58 Hammerfight
    74% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,049 reviews2009
    Developer: Konstantin KoshutinPublisher: KranX Productions
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #59 pemsa
    72% matchVery Positive91% of 162 reviews2022
    Developer: Rexcellent Games
    Platforms: 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. #60 Nucleares
    72% matchVery Positive83% of 1,020 reviews2023
    Developer: Iván Marcelo PrettiPublisher: MicroProse Software
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.6hMean: 20.6h≥1hr: 84%

    Nuclear Reactor Simulator: Take Control. Prevent Disaster. Power the World.

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