These are games that are very different than most games on IFDB. Some games that are exceptional in execution (like Counterfeit Monkey) are derived from concepts that are similar to other games (like Andrew Schultz's or Ad Verbum).
This list is for games that are truly unusual, and have not really been copied that much.
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1. Toonesia, by Jacob Weinstein (1995)
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2. Suspended
by Michael Berlyn
(1983)
Average member rating: (43 ratings)
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3. The Shadow in the Cathedral
by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold
(2009)
Average member rating: (31 ratings)
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4. Border Zone
by Marc Blank
(1987)
Average member rating: (26 ratings)
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5. AlethiCorp
by Simon Christiansen
(2014)
Average member rating: (30 ratings)
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6. Lock & Key
by Adam Cadre
(2002)
Average member rating: (75 ratings)
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7. Six Stories
by Neil K. Guy
(1999)
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
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8. 69,105 Keys
by David Welbourn
(2009)
Average member rating: (80 ratings)
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9. Keepsake
by Savaric
(2011)
Average member rating: (27 ratings)
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10. The Gostak
by Carl Muckenhoupt
(2001)
Average member rating: (91 ratings)
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11. Whom The Telling Changed
by Aaron A. Reed
(2005)
Average member rating: (64 ratings)
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12. Guilded Youth
by Jim Munroe
(2012)
Average member rating: (48 ratings)
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13. My Angel, by Jon Ingold (2000)
Average member rating: (26 ratings)
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14. Slap That Fish
by Peter Nepstad
(2007)
Average member rating: (29 ratings)
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15. Dead Cities
by Jon Ingold
(2007)
Average member rating: (31 ratings)
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16. Alabaster
by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities
(2009)
Average member rating: (122 ratings)
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17. Shrapnel
by Adam Cadre
(2000)
Average member rating: (169 ratings)
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18. Bigger Than You Think
by Andrew Plotkin
(2012)
Average member rating: (51 ratings)
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19. Ecdysis
by Peter Nepstad
(2007)
Average member rating: (80 ratings)
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20. Kerkerkruip
by Victor Gijsbers
(2011)
Average member rating: (69 ratings)
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21. For a Change
by Dan Schmidt
(1999)
Average member rating: (115 ratings)
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22. Everything We Do Is Games
by Doug Orleans
(2015)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
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23. Delightful Wallpaper
by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd')
(2006)
Average member rating: (77 ratings)
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24. Constraints, by Martin Bays (2002)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)
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25. Praser 5, by Andrew Plotkin (1989)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
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26. The Space Under the Window
by Andrew Plotkin
(1997)
Average member rating: (99 ratings)
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27. Bee
by Emily Short
(2012)
Average member rating: (88 ratings)
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28. Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory
by Katherine Morayati
(2015)
Average member rating: (22 ratings)
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29. Taghairm
by Chandler Groover
(2015)
Average member rating: (26 ratings)
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30. The War of the Willows
by Adam Bredenberg
(2015)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
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31. Trapped in Time
by Simon Christiansen
(2013)
Average member rating: (24 ratings)
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32. The End Means Escape, by Steve Kodat (2000)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
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33. Bad Machine
by Dan Shiovitz
(1998)
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
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34. ASCII and the Argonauts
by J. Robinson Wheeler
(2003)
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
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35. > by @
by Aaron A. Reed
(2010)
Average member rating: (24 ratings)
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36. 18 Cadence, by Aaron A. Reed (2013)
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
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37. Strange Geometries, by Phillip Chambers (2006)
Average member rating: (19 ratings)
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38. Escape From Summerland
by Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy
(2012)
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
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39. The Magic Toyshop, by Gareth Rees (1995)
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
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40. Alien Abduction?, by Charles Gerlach (1996)
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
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41. Downtown Tokyo, Present Day, by John Kean (1998)
Average member rating: (22 ratings)
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42. I Palindrome I, by Nick Montfort (2012)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)
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43. The Sons of the Cherry, by Alex Livingston (2010)
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
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44. Not Quite a Sunset - a hypertext opera
by Kyle Rowan
(2017)
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
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45. One way out
by Story by Steffen Görzig, Cover by Oliver Lindau
(2017)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
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46. Cragne Manor
by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna et al.Show other authors
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(2018)
Average member rating: (25 ratings)
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47. Excalibur
by J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman
(2021)
Average member rating: (19 ratings)
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48. Dull Grey
by Provodnik Games
(2019)
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
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49. The Kuolema
by Ben Jackson
(2023)
Average member rating: (22 ratings)
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50. One King to Loot them All
by Onno Brouwer
(2023)
Average member rating: (17 ratings)
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