The Best Experience Games

Update 2 January 2025: The Memories That Shape Us added at rank #11.

Here are our 10 Best Experience Games:

Ord.
Kind Words
Kind Words lo fi chill beats to write to
Cosmic Flow: A Relaxing VR Experience
Pluviophile
Beef Jerky
Mind Palace
Fall Of The MS Estonia
Griptape Backbone
Climber: Sky is the Limit

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Ord. (2019)

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IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows

Ord is a captivating text-based adventure game with five unique stories to choose from. Choose your own adventure as you become a god and create your world or take on an evil warlock in a thrilling quest. With fast-paced narratives, your choices matter, and you'll be engaged in no time. Plus, create and share your own stories with Steam Workshop support. Available in multiple languages.

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What we like:

Cleverly conveys changes in atmosphere and mood with minimalistic visuals and sound effects
Multiple scenarios with vastly different outcomes provide high replayability
A fun and creative take on the text adventure genre
Multiple languages supported
Workshop support allows for user-generated content and experimentation with storytelling

What could be improved:

No save-states or continues, with every death resetting the player to the beginning
Poor controls and other quirks make the game feel more like an art project than a polished video game experience

text
minimalist
adventure
experience
story
narrative
perma-death
rpg
experimental
innovative
casual
book
fast-paced

Kind Words (2019)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

A game about writing nice letters to real people. Write and receive encouraging letters in a cozy room. Trade stickers and listen to chill music. We're all in this together. Sometimes all you need are a few kind words.

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experience
psychological
emotional
asynchronous
lgbtq
music
experimental
souls
memes
relaxing
atmospheric
colourful
multiplayer
stylized
horror

Kind Words lo fi chill beats to write to (2019)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

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wholesome
cozy
experience
emotional
asynchronous
music
lgbtq
relaxing
memes
experimental
psychological
multiplayer
atmospheric
colourful
cute

Cosmic Flow: A Relaxing VR Experience (2020)

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Oculus Rift HTC Vive PC Windows

Cosmic Flow is a relaxing visual experience, an audio-visual massage for the mind, a kaleidoscopic meditation.

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relaxing
psychedelic
experience
vr
experimental
interactive

Pluviophile (2020)

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PC Windows

Pluviophile is a very short experience about the mood of rain in the woods.

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walking-simulator
experience
short
beautiful
atmospheric
nature
exploration
relaxing

Beef Jerky (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android

A gritty, short-form narrative experience about a young man who lives with his sickly older sister. Struggling to support the both of them, he comes home from work one day to find something strange at his front door...

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experience
short
drama
experimental
fiction
surreal
dark
modern
comedy
boxing
conversation
interactive
narrative
linear
story

Mind Palace (2024)

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early access Playstation 4 PC Windows

Explore your own notes in this experimental VR journey. Climb, jump & slide along the way on your adventure of building your personal Mind Palace. Make connections and place categories to arrange your notes in memorable places.

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experience
transhumanism
soundtrack
experimental
vr
philosophical
walking-simulator
psychological
atmospheric
abstract
physics
stylized
exploration
relaxing
first-person

Fall Of The MS Estonia (2024)

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PC Windows

Step into the shoes of a passenger aboard the ill-fated MS Estonia in this immersive simulation. Discover what caused the ship's demise on the tragic day of 28th September 1994. With time running out, are you able to find a way off the ship?

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immersive
experience
simulation
naval
historical
education
walking-simulator
atmospheric
destruction
exploration
1990s
linear
casual
real-time

Griptape Backbone (2017)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

A relaxing meditative and Zen like first person vaporwave skateboarding game. An interactive mixtape.

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experience
skate-purgatory
open-world
relaxing
memes
cyberpunk
atmospheric
skateboard
driven

Climber: Sky is the Limit (2022)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch j Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One

Climber: Sky is the Limit is a mountain walking simulator game where you become a winter climber. To succeed you need to plan the trip, prepare appropriate equipment, face extreme weather conditions and survive. Only the sky is the limit!

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