Top-Rated Free Experimental Games on Steam

22 free Experimental games with 500+ reviews and a 70%+ positive rating, newest first.

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INSERT GAME HERE - Players say: Follow a bickering game manager through a broken first-person game, explore strange spaces, and fire a cardboard popcorn gun. Players like: Meta Game-Dev Humor · Voice Acting · Heartfelt Story ·
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Magic Archery - Players say: Train a commoner into a powerful archer by breaking targets, improving skills, earning quest rewards, and unlocking magical arrows. Players like: Satisfying Progression · Relaxed Idle Play · Visible Archer Upgrades ·
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Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

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Oct 4, 2024
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TELEFORUM - Players say: As a camera operator investigating a TV host’s death, interview his widow, search her apartment, and follow a strange VHS mystery. Players like: Unsettling Atmosphere · VHS Found-Footage Style · Effective Sound Design ·
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TELEFORUM is a found-footage-styled horror game exploring the unknown side of media. You’re visiting a widow’s apartment to conduct an interview about her husband's death. But that’s not the main reason why you’re here. It’s all about the tape, isn’t it?

South Scrimshaw, Part One - Players say: Follow a newborn Brillo whale through an alien ocean in a documentary-style visual novel with illustrated biology and field notes. Players like: Detailed Hand-Drawn Art · Imaginative Alien Biology · Documentary-Style Story ·
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South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.

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Jun 9, 2023
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Locke(d) - Players say: Wake across from a stranger, question freedom and identity in conversation, and inspect a few objects in a short visual novel. Players like: Thoughtful Freedom Themes · Fourth-Wall Moments · Atmospheric Art And Sound ·
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An algorithm decided to show you this. What now?

BABBDI - Players say: Explore a strange concrete city, meet its residents, and use unusual tools to reach new places as you search for a way out. Players like: Eerie City Atmosphere · Freedom To Explore · Unusual Movement Tools ·
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Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.

Occupy White Walls - Players say: Design a museum from the ground up, curate real artworks, and explore the imaginative galleries built by other players. Players like: Gallery Building · Art Discovery · Exploring Player Galleries ·
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A game about building art galleries may sound boring until you realise that just about anything can be an art gallery... Add in cutting edge AI, extremely creative community, Unreal graphics, and did we mention it's free?

The one who pulls out the sword will be crowned king - Players say: Pull a sword from a stone by dragging it with your mouse; each online success makes it longer and heavier for everyone. Players like: Absurd Sword Premise · Patient Pulling Challenge · Triumphant Victory Fanfare ·
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Are you The Rightful King™ or just a filthy peasant? The sword is waiting for you to lift it, but it gets longer and heavier each time someone else succeeds...

Atopes - Players say: A philosophical meta-adventure shifts among mini-games and desktop puzzles, asking you to help a story break beyond its screen. Players like: Meta-Game Surprises · Creative Mini-Games · Emotional Story ·
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Your future is vaster than the cosmos.

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Idle Slayer - Players say: Run and jump through pixel-art worlds to gather coins and souls, unlock upgrades, craft gear, and build a stronger Slayer. Players like: Addictive Progression · Retro Pixel Art · Casual Background Play ·
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Start from nothing and grow into a legendary Slayer. Explore countless dimensions, collect souls, unlock powerful upgrades, craft powerful gear, defeat epic bosses, and enjoy a deep idle RPG with active and offline progression.

MetaWare High School (Demo) - Players say: A visual novel about a self-aware dating-sim demo, where you choose how to answer characters who know they're in a game. Players like: Meta Storytelling · Thoughtful Writing · Emotional Impact ·
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How do you see the world when nothing is real? An experimental metafictional visual novel.

The Flood - Players say: Pilot a small boat down a flood-swollen river, steering around debris as reflective lines and music accompany the short ride. Players like: Calming Short Break · Relaxing Boat Ride · Reflective On-Screen Text ·
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The Flood is a peaceful 5 minute narrative experience in which you pilot a little boat down a river. It's a gentle reminder that sometimes we should stop worrying about our destination and just enjoy the journey.

A Raven Monologue - Players say: Guide a silent raven through a town in a brief, wordless illustrated story told through scenes, music, and small encounters. Players like: Beautiful Hand-Drawn Art · Melancholy Music · Open-Ended Story ·
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A Raven Monologue is a short experimental silent story about a raven that does not know how to croak and his relationship with the people in the town.

Yume Nikki - Players say: As Madotsuki, wander from her bedroom through connected dream worlds, finding strange encounters and Effects with little guidance. Players like: Surreal Atmosphere · Dreamworld Exploration · Ambient Soundtrack ·
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This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

Doorways: Old Prototype - Players say: A short first-person horror prototype where you cross eerie spaces, tackle platforming challenges, and solve light-and-perspective puzzles. Players like: Eerie Atmosphere · Platforming Challenges · Smooth Controls ·
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An immersive and twisted adventure created before the official development of the Doorways saga

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist - Players say: A first-person player is diverted backstage from a heist game, operating stage cues under a frantic narrator’s direction. Players like: Witty Narration · Absurd Meta-Humor · Unexpected Moments ·
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A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good luck writing the steam description. -tina

Port of Call - Players say: After waking with no memory on a dock, work aboard a strange ferry, question its passengers, and uncover clues to your past. Players like: Story and Mystery · Eerie Atmosphere · Ferry Setting ·
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Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.

Color Symphony - Players say: Shift colors in a side-scrolling platformer to affect enemies and obstacles, opening routes through puzzle-filled levels. Players like: Color Puzzle Mechanic · Stylish Visuals · Engaging Challenges ·
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Color Symphony is a game program utilizing the human recognition ability and visual senses, and various colors are used to play the game by changing colors to disrupt the cognition or to strengthen the cognition. The player can control the enemy, eliminate obstacles or build new roads with different colors.

The Plan - Players say: Guide a fly upward through wind and falling leaves in a brief, atmospheric journey about purpose and a short life. Players like: Moving Soundtrack · Atmospheric Visuals · Reflective Journey ·
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A fly ascends to the skies, pondering the pointlessness of its brief existence.

9.03m - Players say: Explore San Francisco’s Baker Beach years after a tsunami, searching debris for butterflies in a brief first-person remembrance. Players like: Emotional Remembrance · Atmosphere and Music · Brief Focused Visit ·
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The media is quick to put figures to death tolls in such disasters, and 9.03m tries to remind people of the individuals behind those figures. 9.03m is set on Baker Beach in San Francisco, where debris from the tsunami has washed ashore in the years following the tsunami. To play, you must find the butterflies.

Hammerfight - Players say: Pilot a weapon-laden flying machine, swinging hammers and blades with mouse-driven physics through combat missions. Players like: Distinctive Mouse Combat · Satisfying Heavy Hits · Weapon Variety ·
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Hammerfight is about 2D battles of flying machines equipped with various slashing, piercing and blunt weaponry.A unique combat system is based on realistic physics simulation, and it ties the movements of the rider to the movements of your mouse. As you wave the mouse, your rider swings his warhammer, smashing the foe into the wall!

Dear Esther - Players say: Walk a remote Hebridean island as fragments of a letter and an uncertain story emerge through narration and scenery. Players like: Haunting Island Atmosphere · Atmospheric Soundtrack · Beautiful Environments ·
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Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.