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****** Introduction and housekeeping ******

I would like to compile a list of the more alternative / experimental games in a single tread. The reason for this is that I like the quirky, strange and experimental, and I have a horrible memory. I am also generally not very good (read to lazy) to search properly.

The aim is collect as many of the games which goes into the category "Alternative", "Experimental", "Art" and "is it really a game" as possible. I am also trying to make a distinction between Experimental games and merely (ahem) Innovative games, and the focus is on PC games only.

Feel free to contribute, the more the merrier, and since many of these games may be a bit obscure they can be hard to find.

(This is a continuation of the "Of the beaten track" thread (correct spelling this time, I hope) , big thanks to everyone who contributed to it.)
Post edited September 17, 2012 by amok
****** “Stand alone” games ******

1916 -Der unbekannte Krieg*
The 4th Wall
Activate the Three Artefacts and then Leave*
Adrift*
Akrasia*
[url=http://www.krillbite.com/ats/ ]Among the sleep[/url]
Antichamber (Steam)
At a distance*
Auditorium
Between*
Bientôt l'été
Blindside
The Bridge (Steam)
The Cat and the Coup*
The Cat Lady
Chaser*
Closure
Code Hero
Crystal Pixels*
DeadEnd: Cerebral Vortex
Dear Esther
Devil's tuning fork *
Depression Quest*
Digital: A Love story*
Dinner Date
([url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/229580/]Steam)
Dyad
End Game: Syria* (Desura)
Ether One
alternative download) (Author website)
Experiment 112 / Experience 112 (on GG)
Experiment 12
Façade*
The Fall *
Final Nightmare*
Find me a good one*
Fort McMoney*
FRACT OSC
Girl with a heart of
Gone Home
The Gostak*
Gravity Bone*
[url=http://mr.roboto.es/roboto/hope/ ]Hope: The other side of adventure[/url]*
Imscared - A Pixelated Nightmare*
Insert Title Here* (Desura)
Home*
([url=http://www.desura.com/games/init]on Desura)
Kairo
Kyoto*
Love*
The Marriage*
Middens*
mightier
Moment of Silence (Kickstarter)*
Mondo Medicals*
The Note*
Noctis*
Nous*
The Novelist
Octodad*
Papers, please
Passage*
Parallax
Pararail*
The Path
Perspective*
The Plan* (Greenlight)
The Polynomal
POP
Proun*
Proteus EP (Steam)
[url= http://quantumminigolf.sourceforge.net/ ]Quantum Minigolf[/url]*
Retention
([url=http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=129385144]Greenlight) (IndieGoGo)
Rom Check Fail*
Ruins*
The Sense of Connectedness*
Shelter
Sleep is death*
Sonar
Space Funeral*
Spectre*
The Stanley Parable*
Symphoney
Tengami
Thirty flights of loving
Thomas was alone
To the moon
Trauma
Trip
[url=http://www.jmp.fi/~smaarane/urw.html]UnReal world[/url]*
Vesper.5*
[url=http://www.tension-game.com/ ]The Void[/url]
Wake up call *
Waveform
World of Pong*
Yeti Hunter*
Yume Nikki*

(Games marked with * are free to play)
Post edited June 22, 2015 by amok
****** Online games ******

A closed world
Aether
Airport Security
Alter Ego
Antimatiere
As The Village Turns
Atum
Aubergine Sky
Beloved
Coil
Drop
Dys4ia
Every day the same dream
Feign
Freedom Bridge
Galatea
game, game, game and again game
GIRP
Hello world
ir/rational Redux (author site)
Jahoomas Question Mark
January
Langman
Leaf: A game about Life
MacVideoGame
Madrid
Memory of a Broken Dimension
No-one has to die
One and One story
One Chance
Osada
[url=http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/598748 ]Personal trip to the moon [/url]
[url=http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/pirouette/]Pirouette [/url]
pOnd
Rambo: Last Blood
First draft of The Revolution
Seasons
Silent Conversation
Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure
Small Worlds
The Snowfields
Today I die
Unmanned
QWOP
Which?
Windosill
The Wish
You only live once
Post edited April 10, 2013 by amok
****** In development ******

Against the Wall
Bohm
Boon Hill (Kickstarter)
The Complete Writings of Mme. Esther Darwin
Fader
Gorogoa
The Magic Circle
Memory of a Broken Dimension
Mirage
Paradis Perdus
([url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/teampixelpi/pulse-reveal-the-world-through-sound]Kickstarter)
The Rituals
Scale
Skipping Stones
SpyParty
Storyteller
([url=http://www.cactus-soft.co.nr/]Cactusquid)
Way
Post edited May 19, 2015 by amok
****** R.I.P. ******

Alien Garden , not PC but mentioned as it is considered the to be the first "art game"
Blast Chamber () ([url=http://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Blast_Chamber.html]Demo)
Endorfun (Puzzle)
Galapagos: Mendel's Escape (Environmental control)
, extinct game about extinction...[url= http://www.pcgamesn.com/indie/glitchhiker-game-died] Article
Post edited September 20, 2012 by amok
****** Honourable Mentions ******

Cactusquid , experimenting with form and narrative
Christine Love, working primarily in interactive fiction
Eyezmaze, several interactive art flash games, including the Grow series
Experimental Gameplay Workshop (Yearly conference, 10 years running now)
Digipen - lots of innovative games from this institute
IndieCade, international festival of Independent Games.
Ice Pick Lodge. Developers of Pathologic, The Void, Cargo and Knock Knock
Jonas Kyratzes website , experimenting with both narrative and the medium
Molleindustria "Radical games against the dictatorship of entertainment", Political
Tale of Tales games, several experimental narrative games
Yoshio Ishii website, experimenting with the medium, some very traditional other very experimental.
Post edited February 09, 2013 by amok
poasts

:-D

Edit: Amok said wait 5 seconds to post something, unfortunately i didnt know what I was to be posting, Opening post has since been updated....
Post edited September 09, 2012 by reaver894
I was sorely tempted.
I swear this was some type of endurance test
If you need ideas, amok, http://www.freeindiegam.es/.
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Aaron86: If you need ideas, amok, http://www.freeindiegam.es/.
Thanks, it is a new and good one, I found Exo installer there. For some reason the author don't have it on his own website...
http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/DD-KENSHI/kenshi-alpha

maybe falls into the category's IMO its almost unplayable at the moment but has potential

http://www.instantkingdom.com/driftmoon/

also might be a good addition
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reaver894: http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/DD-KENSHI/kenshi-alpha

maybe falls into the category's IMO its almost unplayable at the moment but has potential

http://www.instantkingdom.com/driftmoon/

also might be a good addition
They are both very good games with a lot of potential (Driftmoon is coming out any time now, everybody go buy - it is excellent), however I would not say that either of them are very experimental in nature. Not sure if they belong on this list. Maybe consider a list of upcoming indie games worth looking into?
I just noticed there are a few of these games on Steam Grennlight

Init. - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93276707
POP: Methodology experiment one - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93935251
Trip - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93263157
Octodad - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92915329
FRACT OSC http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93104891
Retention - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93051186

Probably a few more, but the greenlight list is big...
nicee list that is a lot of hard work you have done here.