The Best Nonlinear Games

Update : DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures added at rank #1.
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DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures (2024)

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PC Windows web browser

DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of artificial intelligence in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.

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  • narration
  • nonlinear
  • typing
  • text
  • dynamic
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • choices
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • interactive
  • procedural
  • multiple-endings
  • minimalist
  • adventure

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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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Guano (2024)

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Android PC Windows

Play as a delightfully dumb seagull, find food and complete quests to help free the Grand Masters and gain their powers. Harrass humans and free the Pohemeda Islands from the evil Food Inc. with your powerful poop and loud screams!


  • nonlinear
  • comedy
  • flight
  • capitalism
  • action-adventure
  • open-world
  • third-person
  • satire
  • cartoony
  • stylized
  • exploration
  • funny
  • tutorial
  • controller-support
  • colourful

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The Isle of Elanor (2024)

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early access PC Windows Linux

You wash ashore on The Isle of Elanor, the last bastion of humanity remaining in the world. The situation on the island is grim. You're given a small plot of land. Can you help humanity survive?

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  • farming
  • life
  • simulation
  • idler
  • nonlinear
  • character
  • crafting
  • choices
  • fantasy
  • pixel
  • customization
  • relaxing
  • rpg
  • top-down
  • story

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Membal (2024)

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Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone

Build your town while exercising your memory! Invite over 140 adorable animals to Membal and enjoy 20+ mini-games to train your mind. Decorate and customize your adventure as you wish.

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  • trivia
  • life
  • city-building
  • choices
  • education
  • character
  • nonlinear
  • top-down
  • cats
  • customization
  • exploration
  • relaxing
  • 2d
  • logic
  • cute

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Ex Vitro (2024)

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PC Windows

EX VITRO is a dark sci-fi 2D platformer where you delve into the ruins of a military research facility and discover the horrors within. Whether machine, creature, or something else entirely, you’ll face the violent legacy of the last survivors of humanity.

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  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • nonlinear
  • pve
  • multiple-endings
  • platform
  • exploration
  • horror
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • dark

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Departed Away (2024)

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PC Windows

Discover 'Departed Away,' a captivating visual novel where friendship intertwines with mystery. Uncover secrets, engage in verbal duels, and make choices that shape your story. Delve into emotional depth and intricate connections in this unique story.

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  • psychological
  • dating-sim
  • nonlinear
  • visual-novel
  • romance
  • investigation
  • fiction
  • pixel
  • immersive
  • horror
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • mystery
  • interactive
  • 2d

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Absence of Light (2024)

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Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone

"Absence of Light" is an exploration based shoot 'em up that combines intense bullet-dodging combat with a metroidvania-style level design. Solve, shoot, and shine your way through the kingdom of Luminara and reawaken the light!

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  • soundtrack
  • metroidvania
  • bullet-hell
  • nonlinear
  • twin-stick
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • stylized
  • abstract
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • minimalist
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • open-world

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Puzzle Club (2024)

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PC Windows

This is a mysterious and challenging puzzle game that includes various types of puzzles and mechanisms, such as numeric passwords, graphic passwords, text passwords, etc. Each puzzle requires careful thinking to find the correct answer.

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  • nonlinear
  • detective
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • first-person
  • 3d
  • single-player
  • platform

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SUNSET OF ATE (2023)

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PC Windows

An open world TPS science fiction game

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  • open-world
  • tps
  • aliens
  • sci-fi
  • nonlinear
  • nature
  • shooter
  • adventure
  • 3d
  • casual

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