The Best Nonlinear Games - Page 4

Update : The Precinct added at rank #24.
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Puddle Knights (2020)

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Mac OS Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Protecting nobles from mud may look simple on the surface, but the intricate cape arranging puzzle mechanics ensure steadily increasing difficulty. Join the Knights on their quest to preserve dignity, and mindmuck is practically guaranteed! Playtime 10-35h.


  • sokoban
  • nonlinear
  • logic
  • isometric
  • puzzle
  • movement
  • relaxing
  • turn-based
  • cute
  • minimalist
  • family-friendly
  • funny
  • difficult
  • mud
  • colourful

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The Mobius Machine (2024)

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j PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Discover a vast alien world. Fight the ferocious local fauna and killer machines. Reveal its secrets and find a way to escape. The Mobius Machine is a side-scroller action adventure, with an emphasis on free-form exploration and intense combat.

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  • metroidvania
  • nonlinear
  • shooter
  • scroller
  • twin-stick
  • pve
  • underwater
  • exploration
  • space
  • action-adventure
  • aliens
  • robots
  • 3d
  • open-world
  • local

33

Murderous Muses (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Mac OS PC Windows

Solve a sinister murder by spending three reality-shifting nights in a haunted art gallery. An infinitely re-playable murder mystery blending deduction, exploration, puzzles, collectibles and FMV.

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  • mystery
  • fmv
  • procedural
  • puzzle
  • detective
  • lovecraftian
  • lore
  • investigation
  • nonlinear
  • replay-value
  • resource-management
  • drama
  • supernatural
  • walking-simulator
  • exploration

34

Of Bird and Cage (2021)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Of Bird and Cage is a unique metal album presented through a two-hour-long story-driven game. Play music in a brand-new way. Featuring famous artists like Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-Guns N' Roses), Rob van der Loo (Epica), Ruud Jolie (Within Temptation), and many others!

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  • nonlinear
  • music
  • emotional
  • modern
  • choices
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • multiple-endings
  • quick-time-event
  • stylized
  • psychological
  • dark
  • first-person
  • drama
  • story

35

The Norwood Suite (2017)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.


  • nonlinear
  • investigation
  • music
  • surreal
  • psychological
  • walking-simulator
  • horror
  • casual
  • psychedelic
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • first-person
  • adventure
  • mystery
  • stylized

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Oliver (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One Android

You are a Crash Test Dummy. Your goal: pass a test simulation that no other dummy has survived before. Move through a nonlinear world filled with though challenges, dangerous enemies, tricky puzzles and epic bosses. And please don't die like the others, would you?


  • underground
  • nonlinear
  • metroidvania
  • 2.5d
  • scroller
  • underwater
  • retro
  • cooking
  • platform
  • stylized
  • abstract
  • 1990s
  • minimalist
  • space
  • education

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Liquidators (2020)

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PC Windows

Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.

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  • nonlinear
  • souls
  • perma-death
  • underground
  • cold
  • 1980s
  • fmv
  • 3d
  • historical
  • retro
  • exploration
  • dark
  • experimental

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Space Cats Tactics: Prologue (2021)

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PC Windows

Prologue to Space Cats Tactics, a tactical turn-based RPG space adventure combining inside ship crew management from games like FTL and Star Command Galaxies with grid based fighting from games like XCOM and Divinity Original Sin.

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  • nonlinear
  • turn-based
  • conversation
  • space
  • rpg
  • tactical
  • cyberpunk
  • choices
  • building
  • multiple-endings
  • mech
  • management
  • 3d
  • top-down
  • strategy

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Still Joking (2024)

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Mac OS PC Windows

What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.


  • nonlinear
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • interactive
  • emotional
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • story
  • colourful
  • investigation
  • vision
  • third-person
  • atmospheric

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Orten Was The Case (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.

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  • manipulation
  • time
  • nonlinear
  • lore
  • metroidvania
  • 2.5d
  • humor
  • conspiracy
  • time-management
  • dystopian
  • choices
  • mystery
  • detective
  • dark
  • open-world

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