The Best Nonlinear Games

Update : Demining added at rank #1.
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Demining (2025)

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Demining is a 1-4 player semi open-world horror experience where every step could be your last. Work together or by yourself as you disarm deadly mines, delve into bountiful ruins, and fight to see another day.

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  • nonlinear
  • cooperative
  • survival-horror
  • psychological
  • open-world
  • horror
  • dark
  • mystery
  • exploration
  • player-to-player
  • online
  • atmospheric
  • difficult
  • puzzle

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World Alone: Dreampools (2025)

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World Alone: Dreampools is a single-player Backrooms experience focused on dreamlike liminal pools. The game features a narrative told through cinematic sequences and immersive environments. Feel the true essence of solitude in World Alone...

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  • solitaire
  • nonlinear
  • walking-simulator
  • vision
  • immersive
  • 3d
  • simulation
  • cinematic
  • 1990s
  • relaxing
  • psychological
  • sandbox
  • atmospheric
  • 1980s
  • exploration

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Desert Angels (2025)

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A story-driven exploration game set in a desert scrapyard. Search for memories in the trash, speak to its ghosts, and blast new paths with the weapons you find. Seek the generator to save your oasis village, and make your choices: What gets to be remembered, and what gets to be forgotten?

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  • walking-simulator
  • nonlinear
  • third-person
  • emotional
  • visual-novel
  • exploration
  • story
  • open-world
  • narrative
  • lgbtq
  • stylized
  • sci-fi

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Lushfoil Photography Sim (2025)

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Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows Xbox Series X/s j

A tranquil exploration and photography experience set across a vast selection of faithfully detailed landscapes.

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  • ambient
  • simulation
  • walking-simulator
  • snow
  • nature
  • illustration
  • design
  • immersive
  • nonlinear
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • realistic
  • sandbox
  • first-person
  • hidden-object

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Hope Deferred (2025)

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Hope Deferred is a first-person psychological horror RPG. Explore nightmare worlds and search for understanding in this PSX inspired dungeon crawler.

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  • horror
  • nonlinear
  • lore
  • philosophical
  • dungeon-crawler
  • psychedelic
  • multiple-endings
  • psychological
  • abstract
  • survival-horror
  • choices
  • surreal
  • medieval
  • supernatural
  • stylized

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God's Disdain (2025)

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Explore a vast, rich world in the fight to end a plague in this non-linear JRPG! WIll you save Hajimari, or doom it to wither away?

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  • japanese
  • rpg
  • nonlinear
  • lore
  • jrpg
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • party
  • post-apocalyptic
  • magic
  • turn-based
  • open-world
  • combat
  • pixel
  • exploration

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Slime Heroes (2025)

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Xbox Series X/s Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One

You are the last slime and the only one that can save your home from the corruption consuming it. Play alone or with a friend to find different weapons, dynamically create your own magical abilities, and express the way you want to adventure in this slimes-like action-adventure!

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  • souls
  • cooperative
  • local
  • 3d
  • nonlinear
  • character
  • isometric
  • action-adventure
  • dungeon
  • action
  • colourful
  • customization
  • family-friendly
  • multiplayer
  • exploration

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Morkull Ragast's Rage (2025)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

A 2D video game that combines platforming and action with a touch of exploration in which we control Morkull, God of death and darkness and lord of the Ragast, whose main mechanics lies in the breaking of the fourth wall, which will allow Morkull to communicate with the player in various ways.

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  • 2d
  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • cartoony
  • nonlinear
  • hack-and-slash
  • hand-drawn
  • comic
  • scroller
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • book
  • fantasy
  • controller-support

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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?


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

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Digested (2024)

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PC Windows

Digested is a bodycam horror survival game in which you must evade a giant snake intent on eating you alive. Utilize various tools and abilities to formulate an escape strategy, and use the map to navigate through unfamiliar terrain. Locate your extraction pod and don't get digested.

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  • horror
  • nonlinear
  • cinematic
  • survival-horror
  • open-world
  • dark
  • psychological
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • survival
  • realistic
  • perma-death
  • mystery
  • exploration

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