The Best Experience Games

Update : Mind Palace added at rank #10.
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Ord. (2019)

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IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows

Ord is a captivating text-based adventure game with five unique stories to choose from. Choose your own adventure as you become a god and create your world or take on an evil warlock in a thrilling quest. With fast-paced narratives, your choices matter, and you'll be engaged in no time. Plus, create and share your own stories with Steam Workshop support. Available in multiple languages.


What we like:
  • Cleverly conveys changes in atmosphere and mood with minimalistic visuals and sound effects
  • Multiple scenarios with vastly different outcomes provide high replayability
  • A fun and creative take on the text adventure genre
  • Multiple languages supported
  • Workshop support allows for user-generated content and experimentation with storytelling
What could be improved:
  • No save-states or continues, with every death resetting the player to the beginning
  • Poor controls and other quirks make the game feel more like an art project than a polished video game experience

  • text
  • minimalist
  • adventure
  • experience
  • story
  • narrative
  • perma-death
  • rpg
  • experimental
  • innovative
  • casual
  • book
  • fast-paced

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Kind Words (2019)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

A game about writing nice letters to real people. Write and receive encouraging letters in a cozy room. Trade stickers and listen to chill music. We're all in this together. Sometimes all you need are a few kind words.


  • experience
  • psychological
  • emotional
  • asynchronous
  • lgbtq
  • music
  • experimental
  • souls
  • memes
  • relaxing
  • atmospheric
  • colourful
  • multiplayer
  • stylized
  • horror

3

Kind Words lo fi chill beats to write to (2019)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

A game about writing nice letters to real people. Write and receive encouraging letters in a cozy room. Trade stickers and listen to chill music. We're all in this together. Sometimes all you need are a few kind words.

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  • wholesome
  • cozy
  • experience
  • emotional
  • asynchronous
  • music
  • lgbtq
  • relaxing
  • memes
  • experimental
  • psychological
  • multiplayer
  • atmospheric
  • colourful
  • cute

4

Dragon Bobby - The Story of a Life (2023)

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PC Windows

A uniquely beautiful game with third-person exploration and puzzles that tells the story of a man's life from birth. You control a dragon who is an analogy of this man in the story. A true reflection on life.

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  • experience
  • emotional
  • walking-simulator
  • exploration
  • dragon
  • third-person
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • stylized
  • hidden-object
  • cute
  • story
  • puzzle
  • mystery

5

Cosmic Flow: A Relaxing VR Experience (2020)

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Oculus Rift HTC Vive PC Windows

Cosmic Flow is a relaxing visual experience, an audio-visual massage for the mind, a kaleidoscopic meditation.

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  • relaxing
  • psychedelic
  • experience
  • vr
  • experimental
  • interactive

6

Pluviophile (2020)

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PC Windows

Pluviophile is a very short experience about the mood of rain in the woods.


  • walking-simulator
  • experience
  • short
  • beautiful
  • atmospheric
  • nature
  • exploration
  • relaxing

7

Beef Jerky (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android

A gritty, short-form narrative experience about a young man who lives with his sickly older sister. Struggling to support the both of them, he comes home from work one day to find something strange at his front door...


  • experience
  • short
  • drama
  • experimental
  • fiction
  • surreal
  • dark
  • modern
  • comedy
  • boxing
  • conversation
  • interactive
  • narrative
  • linear
  • story

8

Griptape Backbone (2017)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

A relaxing meditative and Zen like first person vaporwave skateboarding game. An interactive mixtape.

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  • experience
  • skate-purgatory
  • open-world
  • relaxing
  • memes
  • cyberpunk
  • atmospheric
  • skateboard
  • driven

9

Climber: Sky is the Limit (2022)

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Xbox One PC Windows

Climber: Sky is the Limit is a mountain walking simulator game where you become a winter climber. To succeed you need to plan the trip, prepare appropriate equipment, face extreme weather conditions and survive. Only the sky is the limit!


  • immersive
  • unforgiving
  • experience
  • snow
  • survival
  • management
  • simulation
  • nature
  • resource-management
  • choices
  • walking-simulator
  • inventory
  • sport
  • replay-value
  • atmospheric

10

Mind Palace (2024)

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early access Playstation 4 PC Windows

Explore your own notes in this experimental VR journey. Climb, jump & slide along the way on your adventure of building your personal Mind Palace. Make connections and place categories to arrange your notes in memorable places.

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  • experience
  • transhumanism
  • soundtrack
  • experimental
  • vr
  • philosophical
  • walking-simulator
  • psychological
  • atmospheric
  • abstract
  • physics
  • stylized
  • exploration
  • relaxing
  • first-person

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