The Best Nonlinear Games for PC Windows - Page 4

Update : EMUUROM added at rank #25.
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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

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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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Manifold (2021)

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

The game takes place in a "universe with a different set of physical laws" where the player can manipulate gravity, being able to "turn walls into floors".[6] The player must solve puzzles using the world's geometry in addition to devices within the architecture of the world.[6] To aid the player, the world's tone takes on one of six colors depending on which direction they have manipulated gravity. Several facets of the game's world may only be interacted with when the gravity is oriented directly, with these objects sharing one of the six colors.

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  • puzzle
  • philosophical
  • abstract
  • 3d
  • nonlinear
  • platform
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • psychedelic
  • atmospheric
  • experimental
  • cinematic
  • scroller
  • artificial
  • intelligence

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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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Through The Fragmentation (2021)

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PC Windows

Atmospheric first person adventure game focusing on immersion and exploration. Meet strange characters, discover secrets and try to unfold the mystery of the Fragmentation.

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  • immersive
  • nonlinear
  • conversation
  • investigation
  • stylized
  • choices
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • multiple-endings
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • conspiracy
  • 3d

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FREERIDE (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch

Hop on board the ride of your life. FREERIDE is a narrative RPG that’s (not-so) secretly a PERSONALITY TEST. Help others solve their Unfinished Business, navigate a looping, branching story, and use telekinesis to change Fate itself. Your subconscious playstyle will reveal who you really are.

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  • nonlinear
  • emotional
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • replay-value
  • psychological
  • comedy
  • story
  • funny
  • horror
  • colourful
  • rpg
  • cute
  • supernatural
  • atmospheric

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Mystic Pathways (2025)

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Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Survive in a retro-futuristic world filled with Jinns, animals, and other spiritual entities based on eastern fantasies in the spirit of Arabian Nights and middle-eastern history. Gather, craft, evade and ultimately fight your way to an epic battle between Man vs Jinn.

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  • parkour
  • nonlinear
  • lore
  • building
  • stealth
  • post-apocalyptic
  • survival
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • historical
  • alternate
  • third-person
  • exploration
  • controller-support
  • fantasy

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Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa MosqueA (2022)

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PC Windows

This is an Action Game which addresses the Israel x Palestine conflict from a Palestinian perspective, breaking the cliché of portraying Arabs as Terrorists. You will play in missions across Palestine with many objectives to accomplish, epic battles, powerful guns, vehicles to drive and more.

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  • hero
  • shooter
  • wargame
  • pve
  • nonlinear
  • first-person
  • modern
  • emotional
  • historical
  • military
  • fps
  • drama
  • team
  • survival-horror
  • tactical

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Dreamcore (2025)

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Xbox One Android Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

Step into the surreal with Dreamcore, a body-cam styled psychological horror game that plunges you into the eerie beauty of "liminal spaces." Unravel the mysteries of Dreamcore’s non-linear worlds and uncover its hidden secrets. Can you discover what lies beyond the edge of reality?

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  • horror
  • nonlinear
  • surreal
  • escape
  • walking-simulator
  • psychological
  • room
  • investigation
  • underwater
  • exploration
  • minimalist
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • relaxing
  • 3d

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A Monster's Expedition (2020)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone

An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!

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  • sokoban
  • relaxing
  • puzzle
  • nonlinear
  • family-friendly
  • open-world
  • post-apocalyptic
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • 3d
  • historical
  • cartoony
  • alternate
  • funny
  • atmospheric

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