The Best Experimental Games

Update : Nocturne FX added at rank #1.
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Nocturne FX (2025)

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Built entirely in JavaFX, Nocturne FX™ is a high-intensity arcade game where survival warps reality. Power-ups destabilize, patterns shift, and hidden systems awaken—the longer you last, the more the world unravels.

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  • scroller
  • bullet-hell
  • procedural
  • linear
  • attack
  • score
  • minimalist
  • experimental
  • cartoony
  • fast-paced
  • stylized
  • arcade
  • 2d
  • old-school
  • atmospheric

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Cipher Zero (2025)

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Mac OS PC Windows j

A minimalist logic game. Can you solve for 𝒙?

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  • short
  • minimalist
  • modern
  • logic
  • abstract
  • hex
  • surreal
  • nature
  • stylized
  • experimental
  • relaxing
  • atmospheric
  • futuristic
  • grid
  • 2d

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Rusty Heights (2025)

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Rusty Heights is an experimental 2D platform game played entirely using the mouse. Use your grappling hook to reach the top of the mountain !

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  • precision
  • platform
  • experimental
  • underground
  • parkour
  • attack
  • score
  • perma-death
  • robots
  • post-apocalyptic
  • 2d
  • physics
  • retro
  • dark
  • dystopian

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Melbourne: Route 96 (2025)

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Part travel journal, part visual novel with a hint of psychological horror, Melbourne: Route 96 is an experimental game about catching a tram in the wrong direction - and a polaroid camera.

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  • psychological
  • experimental
  • horror
  • lovecraftian
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • hand-drawn
  • surreal
  • interactive
  • multiple-endings
  • dark
  • stylized
  • story

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Religion inc God Simulator (2025)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Create your own religion in new strategy simulator Religion Inc.

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  • god-game
  • experimental
  • faith
  • historical
  • strategy
  • choices
  • isometric
  • simulation
  • hand-drawn
  • top-down
  • real-time
  • stylized
  • philosophical
  • 3d
  • alternate

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Mirage: Ignis Fatuus (2025)

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As the world turns short of Mana, Mirage, the city of illusions, is in danger of collapsing! Help Kyuboy’d make his way through mind-boggling puzzles to save his hometown!

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  • platform
  • precision
  • movement
  • experimental
  • 3d
  • puzzle
  • grid
  • isometric
  • logic

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Mind Palace (2025)

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PC Windows Playstation 4

Dive into a surreal VR world where your thoughts take shape. Build, connect, and explore your own Mind Palace - a space of ideas, movement, and endless curiosity.

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

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Clicker Maker (2025)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Great news for those who can never click enough! Just enter a single word, and your perfect clicker will be generated automatically!

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  • clicker
  • rogue-like
  • development
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • procedural
  • experimental
  • humor
  • character
  • multiple-endings
  • text
  • dark
  • 2d
  • platform
  • customization

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A Dream About Parking Lots (2025)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 5 j Xbox Series X PC Windows

Look for your car in a series of mazes and parking lots while you talk to your therapist about feeling lost. An interactive short story about trying to make sense out of the unreal. Based on real dreams!

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  • philosophical
  • walking-simulator
  • experimental
  • short
  • emotional
  • exploration
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • interactive
  • linear
  • fiction

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Things Too Ugly (2025)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Clock in at TEREBRO INC. for the night shift in 1986. Protect the company's legacy as Risk Assessment Data Processor. Equipped with era-specific technology, navigate through obscured narratives to shape the company's future.

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  • conspiracy
  • experimental
  • psychological
  • short
  • mystery
  • horror
  • simulation
  • 1980s
  • puzzle
  • immersive
  • retro
  • story
  • thriller
  • sci-fi
  • narrative

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