The Best Nonlinear Games

Update : VAGRIENT added at rank #1.
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VAGRIENT (2025)

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Play as an Armlys alien named Vagrient in this sci-fi action/adventure game, featuring RPG elements. It's full of exploration, combat, character progression, puzzle solving and obstacle clearing!

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  • nonlinear
  • 2.5d
  • dungeon-crawler
  • top-down
  • sci-fi
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • hand-drawn
  • aliens
  • pve
  • open-world
  • featuring
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • combat

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Lingo 2 (2025)

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Lingo 2 blends word puzzles and impossible geometry, with brand new puzzle mechanics and a large, colorful world to discover. Welcome back!

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  • nonlinear
  • word
  • puzzle
  • abstract
  • multiple-endings
  • exploration
  • logic
  • first-person
  • stylized

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Dreamcore (2025)

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Xbox One Android Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

Step into the surreal with Dreamcore, a body-cam styled psychological horror game that plunges you into the eerie beauty of "liminal spaces." Unravel the mysteries of Dreamcore’s non-linear worlds and uncover its hidden secrets. Can you discover what lies beyond the edge of reality?


  • horror
  • nonlinear
  • surreal
  • escape
  • walking-simulator
  • psychological
  • room
  • investigation
  • underwater
  • exploration
  • minimalist
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • relaxing
  • 3d

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Keepsake County (2024)

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PC Windows

Burglarize hideous farmhouses in the middle of nowhere and get outta dodge. You have moments before the cops arrive to rob a procedurally-generated house that you've never seen before. If you're caught, residents will call the police even sooner... or take the law into their own hands.

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  • procedural
  • heist
  • capitalism
  • nonlinear
  • immersive
  • 2.5d
  • stylized
  • hand-drawn
  • crime
  • stealth
  • rogue-like
  • cartoony
  • dark
  • comedy
  • atmospheric

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Digested (2024)

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PC Windows

Digested is a bodycam horror survival game in which you must evade a giant snake intent on eating you alive. Utilize various tools and abilities to formulate an escape strategy, and use the map to navigate through unfamiliar terrain. Locate your extraction pod and don't get digested.

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  • horror
  • nonlinear
  • cinematic
  • survival-horror
  • open-world
  • dark
  • psychological
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • survival
  • realistic
  • perma-death
  • mystery
  • exploration

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Polygon of Reality (2024)

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PC Windows

"Polygon of Reality" is a horror game in which you will have to unravel the mysteries of other dimensions and a research complex. Descend into the complex buried in the ground, uncover the mysteries of what happened, meet with forgotten fears and unknown creatures.

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  • nonlinear
  • survival-horror
  • multiple-endings
  • supernatural
  • dark
  • horror
  • atmospheric
  • investigation
  • futuristic
  • sci-fi
  • mystery
  • violent
  • story
  • exploration
  • realistic

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FOUNTAINS (2024)

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Master high-skilled combat to uncover the secrets of an ancient, interconnected world.

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  • souls
  • metroidvania
  • nonlinear
  • hack-and-slash
  • rpg
  • lore
  • fantasy
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • dark
  • top-down
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • open-world

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Moth Cry (2024)

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early access PC Windows

Moth Cry is a non-linear visual novel about life and its consequences. Experience life alongside the main character. His fate is in your hands.

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  • dynamic
  • nonlinear
  • philosophical
  • visual-novel
  • multiple-endings
  • romance
  • choices
  • narration
  • humor
  • drama
  • anime
  • psychological
  • emotional
  • dark
  • fiction

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Laundry Store Simulator (2024)

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Android PC Windows

In Laundry Store Simulator, you'll start small and work your way up, upgrading your equipment, designing a stylish store, and expanding your services! Are you ready to own the best Laundry Store in the world?


  • time-management
  • management
  • economy
  • comedy
  • simulation
  • nonlinear
  • conversation
  • sandbox
  • realistic
  • 3d
  • funny
  • first-person
  • empire
  • resource-management
  • job

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Sidereal (2024)

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A tall man with a black hat wanders across desolated worlds, stumbling beneath the endless stars.


  • nonlinear
  • 3d
  • emotional
  • immersive
  • collectathon
  • abstract
  • mythology
  • narration
  • music
  • post-apocalyptic
  • fiction
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • stylized
  • inventory

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