The Best Experimental Games for Linux

Update : Tiny Glade added at rank #7.
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Tandis (2022)

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Tandis is a short puzzle game where you discover mind-bending geometric forms.

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  • illustration
  • design
  • abstract
  • psychedelic
  • education
  • development
  • experimental
  • 3d
  • building
  • procedural
  • minimalist
  • relaxing
  • nature
  • puzzle
  • science

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The one who pulls out the sword will be crowned king (2022)

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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 some else succeeds...

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  • instrumental
  • cinematic
  • short
  • experimental
  • emotional
  • soundtrack
  • music
  • dark
  • medieval
  • comedy
  • atmospheric
  • walking-simulator
  • historical
  • 3d

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Depanneur Nocturne (2020)

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A short exploration game about poking around a convenience store and finding a gift with the help of its owner. But sometimes the perfect gift finds you.

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  • adventure
  • experimental
  • noir
  • atmospheric
  • inventory
  • surreal
  • 3d
  • cats
  • conversation
  • cute
  • walking-simulator
  • first-person
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • supernatural

4

Draw & Guess (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Draw & Guess is a casual drawing game for up to 16 players. Pick a word and draw away or try to guess your fellow players’ submissions. Multiple game modes and settings available to spice things up!

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  • word
  • hand-drawn
  • experimental
  • family-friendly
  • time-management
  • education
  • abstract
  • relaxing
  • funny
  • cartoony
  • minimalist
  • casual
  • stylized
  • 2d
  • multiplayer

5

Juice Galaxy (2023)

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Juice Galaxy is a happy place to fly around and smack things and drink juice. And explore things. And just, flip around doing stuff.

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  • psychedelic
  • souls
  • immersive
  • hack-and-slash
  • experimental
  • vampire
  • nonlinear
  • inventory
  • physics
  • 3d
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • rpg
  • management
  • simulation

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Merchant of the Skies (2020)

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Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!


  • trading
  • base-building
  • experimental
  • sandbox
  • steampunk
  • economy
  • building
  • exploration
  • procedural
  • management
  • resource-management
  • relaxing
  • 2d

7

Tiny Glade (2024)

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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.

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  • illustration
  • design
  • cozy
  • sandbox
  • building
  • relaxing
  • nature
  • experimental
  • family-friendly
  • procedural
  • cosy
  • medieval
  • cute
  • stylized
  • colourful

8

Edge of Reality (2020)

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It seems that there can be no more boring profession in the world than a pawnshop appraiser. But a meeting with a mysterious but pretty stranger changes Dan's idea of his job.

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  • visual-novel
  • beautiful
  • investigation
  • interactive
  • fiction
  • experimental
  • education
  • noir
  • atmospheric
  • choices
  • text
  • detective
  • adventure
  • cartoony
  • hand-drawn

9

Hyperbolica (2022)

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Hyperbolica is a whimsical Non-Euclidean adventure with mind-bending worlds full of games, puzzles, mazes, and secrets! Immerse yourself in reality-warping geometries where lines can never be parallel, horizons are curved, and space grows exponentially.

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  • psychedelic
  • surreal
  • experimental
  • education
  • psychological
  • vr
  • comedy
  • open-world
  • sci-fi
  • exploration
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • funny
  • story
  • physics

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The Story of The Flood (2022)

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Gods decide to bring the flood of water upon the earth. Salvage what you think is valuable and bring it back to base. It's a psychological test of the apocalypse, also an interactive experiment about trade-offs.

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  • comic
  • multiple-endings
  • experimental
  • fiction
  • choices
  • sailing
  • rogue-like
  • book
  • post-apocalyptic
  • interactive
  • survival
  • walking-simulator
  • minimalist
  • management
  • inventory

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