Experimental Hidden Gems on Steam
Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated experimental games.
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Lighthouse Keeper
This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.
Understand
Understand is an experimental puzzle game about guessing rules. In each level, you have to figure out the rules through trial and error, then draw a line satisfying all rules.
Lucifer Within Us
Solve 3 increasingly intricate murders by examining the evidence -- find the motive, the means, and the opportunity. Use testimonies of the suspects as evidence by examining every detail for contradictions... and signs of sin. Purify the possessed. Purge the daemons.
Loot Grind Simulator
Loot Grind Simulator is a fantasy-themed game about completing quests and earning better loot to equip. The game is meant as satire of the current MMO and Looter Shooter trends and features idle gameplay elements with decisions about what quests to undertake and items to craft.
Your amazing T-Gotchi!
A cute game where you care about a green anime girl!
Paint Girl
Take you easy to make a two-dimensional beauty girl, the mode is easy and interesting, from line drawing to coloring, the whole painting process experience, you don't need painting experience to make your wife live~
Escape from Tatris
Escape from Tatris is a parody puzzle game with traditional gameplay and new solutions. You must collect as much loot as possible in your character's inventory. To do this, collect rows of objects and remove them. Collect combos and transfer loot to backpacks.
The Grounding
If she catches you, she kills you. Smoke 6 times without getting killed.
Interstate Drifter 1999
Drift between the states, collect bits, beat rivals and get a high score.
My Village Life
My Village Life is an open world village simulator vehicle driving game.
The Walking Fish 2: Final Frontier
The Walking Fish returns, this time in space, in an all-new fish comedy horror experience. Stuck on a space station, you have to solve the mystery of the Walking Fish, and escape its terror.
The Confession
Ever wondered how much of a kinky pervert you are? Ever wanted to know what your fate entails for being such a kinky pervert? Answer a series of disgustingly hilarious, immoral questions to reveal ridiculous scenarios & unlock the answers you seek...
OBEY
OBEY is an asymmetrical multiplayer game. In many games you send commands to teammates or AI units. In OBEY you command your (human) opponents, or are commanded by them. Players are always free to obey/disobey. And everyone deals with the consequences of their own decisions.
BE-A Walker
Take control of a huge mech on an alien planet! Shoot and trample the natives, avenge your brother, or forgive his killers? Join the rebels to restore peace on the exotic planet of Eldorado.
Knock Harder
The only way to wake up is to die. The player must decide for himself whether he is inside a dream or is in reality.
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.
Knock Harder: Useless
The only way to wake up is to die. The player must decide for himself whether he is inside a dream or is in reality.
Gachi Heroes 2: Flexboll
Everyone knows who the real king of Flex and today he is ready to teach you. Plunge into an incredible adventure, meet different characters from the universe "gachimuchi" and find out how deep you are ready to go. However, there is one problem...
RUSSI.A SIMULATOR
Pitun, Vodka and Hardbass
Nauticrawl
A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.
Etherborn
Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.
Dissolving
Her ex-boyfriend became a shut-in. The girl goes to visit him... then things start to go wrong. They always do, right? Experience two stories about digital gods and loss. And remember - believe in the net.
Teeth Brushing Simulator
Teeth Brushing Simulator
Talk to Strangers
Talk to Strangers is a game of everyday survival. Survive door to door conversations ranging from bizarre to mundane (in this order) while trying to sell products to strangers. But beware: nothing is what it seems in this neighborhood.
Spinnortality | cyberpunk management sim
Found a company, spread fake news, start riots and become immortal. In this cyberpunk management sim, wealth is power and corporations are king. Can you monopolize the globe and build a corporate empire that will stand forever?
She and the Light Bearer
She and the Light Bearer is a point and click adventure game, a poem, a fairy tale. Take a journey inside a vibrantly colored forest, meet silly creatures, listen to serene folk music, and discover somber secrets.
Rage in Peace
Rage in Peace is a story-driven action adventure with elements of surprise and memorization. Unravel the last day of Timmy's life, as he races against time to get back home and fulfill his sole dream of dying peacefully in his pajamas, in the warmth of home, in peace, and with no drama.
Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.
OK/NORMAL
OK/NORMAL is a short, experimental third-person horror experience, inspired by early 3D console games of the 90's. Journey through a dark, disjointed, dreamlike dimension with your cloud companion! Remember a good diet, take your medicine, and you should be fine!
Apocalipsis
Apocalipsis is a point-and-click adventure game, in the vain of Samorost and Machinarium, where all puzzles have a hidden meaning. With a unique artstyle inspired by 15th century engravings it tells a story about heartbreak, redemption and, quite literally, the end of the world.
Indecision.
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Scavenger SV-4
Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game. Part simulator, part roguelike, it has elements of action, combat, resource management, and a dash of horror. It is not quite like any game you have played before.