Best Experimental Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated experimental games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Experimental games on Steam.

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CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 06 Oct 2025
It Has My Face IT HAS YOUR FACE. Now it wants your life. Hide, seek, and try to kill your clone in this deceptively simple first-person horror roguelite.

Price 9.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Sep 2025
Trainatic Trainatic is an explosive incremental train-building game! Upgrade your cars, gather resources, and unlock powerful synergies to chug further down the track.

Price -20% 4.71€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Sep 2025
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Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 23 Jul 2025
Tower Wizard Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 19 Jun 2025
KARMA: The Dark World KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.

Price -54% 11.67€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 Mar 2025
Nebulock Nebulock is a short bullet-hell game with intense gameplay, where the player must destroy bosses made of blocks, collect resources and upgrade his spaceship.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 05 Mar 2025
My Little Life A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Price -51% 2.90€
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Jan 2025
DEAD LETTER DEPT. Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.

Price -20% 11.83€
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Jan 2025
Proverbs Proverbs is a picross/minesweeper hybrid featuring a single ENORMOUS puzzle, inspired by Bruegel the Elder's 1559 painting "Netherlandish Proverbs"

Price 8.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Nov 2024
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.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 04 Oct 2024
Tiny Glade Tiny Glade is a small diorama builder where you doodle whimsical castles, cozy cottages & romantic ruins. Explore gridless building chemistry as the game adorns your glades with procedural detail. No management, combat or goals: just kick back and turn forgotten meadows into lovable dioramas.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Sep 2024
Lorn's Lure An android is led through a vast structure by a glitch in his visual system. Lorn's Lure is an atmospheric narrative first-person platformer with novel climb-anything mechanics and modernized retro 3D graphics.

Price -35% 8.44€
Rating 8.5
Release 20 Sep 2024
WHAT THE CAR? An absurdly silly adventure full of racing, laughs, and unexpected surprises. Roll, sprint, jump, fly and sneeze your way to victory on the racetrack and beyond!

Price -50% 8.39€
Rating 8.2
Release 09 Sep 2024
Nodebuster Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 13 Aug 2024
VLADiK BRUTAL Fight under the onslaught of mutated monsters, obsessed soldiers and even darker bosses. Just try to survive and find out what to do next in this life, simultaneously tearing your enemies to pieces.

Price -41% 7.00€
Rating 8.8
Release 09 Aug 2024
Revue Starlight El Dorado The first console game of the stage-themed multi-media franchise "Revue Starlight" is on its way!

Price 28.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Aug 2024
14 Minesweeper Variants 2 Minesweeper but the rules are changing, again.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Jun 2024
1000xRESIST 1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.

Price -97% 0.74€
Rating 9.2
Release 09 May 2024
Buckshot Roulette Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

Price -67% 1.00€
Rating 9.5
Release 04 Apr 2024
Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles Bulwark mixes elements of a casual and creative building experience with light grand strategy and exploration elements. It's a genre bending experimental game that can be both a casual building experience and an epic conquest with airships, warbirds and fortresses.

Price -78% 4.38€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 Mar 2024
Windowkill Windowkill is a twin-stick shooter, but the game window itself is constantly closing in on you. Shoot the window edges to push it around your screen as you fight and dodge enemies and bosses in their own windows.

Price -81% 0.96€
Rating 9.2
Release 23 Feb 2024
Kukoro: Stream chat games Kukoro: Stream chat games is a collection of +20 games, from 2D shooters to tactical RPG mini-games, with a high engage for your Twitch community. You and your audience will be able to play with you in real time receiving the individual relevance they deserve, growing your channel day by day.

Price -40% 2.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 02 Feb 2024
(the) Gnorp Apologue (the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.

Price 5.69€
Rating 9.3
Release 14 Dec 2023