Top-Rated Free Experimental Games on Steam

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

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Magic Archery - 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
98% 👍
of 8.3k
TELEFORUM - 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 - 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
99% 👍
of 1.6k
Locke(d) - An algorithm decided to show you this. What now?
BABBDI - Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.
Occupy White Walls - 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 - 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 - Your future is vaster than the cosmos.
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Jul 30, 2021
94% 👍
of 693
Idle Slayer - 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) - How do you see the world when nothing is real? An experimental metafictional visual novel.
Valgrave: Immortal Plains - Valgrave is a free-to-play combo focused Battle Royale game. Every game you'll decide if are a spell-slinging sorcerer or prefer to let your fists do the talking. Grab a combo and level up to show up your opponents. There are over 100,000 combinations.
The Flood - 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 - 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.
Banyu Lintar Angin - Little Storm - - Banyu Lintar Angin is a series of experimental illustrations about three siblings, living together independently in a rural Indonesian environment.
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Jan 11, 2018
96% 👍
of 914
Yume Nikki - This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Doorways: Old Prototype - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - A fly ascends to the skies, pondering the pointlessness of its brief existence.
9.03m - 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 - 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 - Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.