Best Experimental Steam Games on Sale

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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Pony Island Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Price -34% 3.30€
Rating 9.3
Release 04 Jan 2016
Human Resource Machine Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Price -94% 0.94€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Oct 2015
Mushroom 11 An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Oct 2015
The Beginner's Guide The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Price -32% 6.68€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Oct 2015
Doodle God Doodle God is an addicting puzzle & world building game where players use logic and ingenuity to create the entire universe. Starting with the basic elements of earth, wind, fire and air players can build a world filled with locomotives, Dragons, skyscrapers, Aliens and more.

Price -77% 2.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 24 Sep 2015
Super Star Path Classic color match puzzle meets space shoot'em up action! Hop into your spaceship, open a path through huge waves of aliens and other hazards, and face intense boss battles!

Price -92% 0.42€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Jun 2015
Tengami Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the beautifully crafted paper world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.

Price -92% 0.57€
Rating 7.8
Release 15 Jan 2015
The Novelist The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.

Price -88% 0.64€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Dec 2013
Proteus Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.

Price -60% 4.08€
Rating 7.3
Release 30 Jan 2013
Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy The world is at an end, and you have 30 seconds to save it!

Price -91% 0.94€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Sep 2012
McPixel McPixel is a save-the-day guy that you guide through 100 short challenges to prevent stuff from blowing up. You have only 20 seconds to save the day! Think quick!

Price -82% 0.74€
Rating 8.1
Release 25 Sep 2012
Closure In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky...

Price -94% 0.62€
Rating 8.1
Release 07 Sep 2012
The Basement Collection A collection of 9 award winning indie games from the creator of "Binding of isaac" and "Super Meat Boy"!

Price -82% 0.73€
Rating 8.2
Release 31 Aug 2012
Thirty Flights of Loving This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.

Price -92% 0.40€
Rating 6.2
Release 20 Aug 2012
And Yet It Moves And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.

Price -97% 0.32€
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Apr 2009
Uplink Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.

Price -92% 1.04€
Rating 8.7
Release 23 Aug 2006

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84 players

1,229
37
Rating 9.2

32 players

6,822
2,329
Rating 7.3

31 players

20,101
927
Rating 9.3

30 players

574
130
Rating 7.7

14 players

2,841
114
Rating 9.2

13 players

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Rating 9.5

13 players

2,856
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2,104
110
Rating 9.1

5 players

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Rating 9.0

5 players

435
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Rating 8.9