This is a list of art games. It is a collection of examples of video games described as "art games" or "arthouse games" by game designers or critics.

• Alien Garden (1982, Bernie DeKoven/Jaron Lanier, Atari 8-bit/C64) - Described by its creators as video game art,^[1][2] The game ranks among the very earliest examples of the art game.^[3]
• Warpitout ^[4] (1982, Jane Veeder, arcade) - An interactive art project programmed in Zgrass for SIGGRAPH '82.^[5] The game is housed in an arcade cabinet, and was described by the artist as an "artistic video game". It has been exhibited at the Ontario Science Center.^[6]
• Lifespan^[7] (1983, Flyghts of Fancie, Atari 8-bit/C64) - A surrealistic pastiche of five episodes leading the player through events representative of the human experience from childhood to death.
• LORNA^[8] (1983, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Laserdisc) - An interactive movie where players use a remote control to determine the outcome of the eponymous Lorna's life.
• Moondust ^[9] (1983, Jaron Lanier, C64) - A video game that is generally considered the first art game, it has been used as an art installation in numerous museums including the 1983 "ARTCade" exhibit at Corcoran Gallery of Art.^[7]
• Deep Contact ^[8] (1984, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Laserdisc) - An interactive movie about the relationship between intimacy and technology in which players interact with a female character's body parts via a touch screen that changes the story based on the body part that is touched.
• Deus Ex Machina^[10] (1985, Mel Croucher, ZX Spectrum/C64/MSX) - Based on "The Seven Ages of Man" from the Shakespeare play, As You Like It, this game charts the life of a defect as it evolves within the machine from inception, through growth, and eventually death.^{[citation needed]}
• Trigger Happy^[11] (1998, Thompson and Craighead, PC/web) - A deconstruction of Michel Foucault's "What is an Author?", this retro-styled art game pays homage to Space Invaders. As the text of Foucault's essay filters in from the top, the player "deconstructs" it by shooting the words which in turn are hyperlinked to Yahoo search inquiries on the linked word.^{[citation needed]}
• Font Asteroids^[11] (1999, Esc to Begin, PC/web) - A wry commentary on information overflow on the internet where users select information itself as the enemy. Presented as an homage to Asteroids, all textual content from a URL of the player's choice is used to take the place of rocks and break apart into prefixes, suffixes, and roots.^{[citation needed]}
• SOD^[12] (1999, Jodi, PC) - An aesthetic art game hinting at private emotion by deconstructing Wolfenstein 3D, turning it into a Kafka-esque series of abstract black, white, and grey images where it is difficult to determine what to shoot.
• The Intruder^[11][13] (1999, Natalie Bookchin, PC) - Low-art elevated to "high art" in a retro setting. An experimental adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' 1966 short story, "La intrusa" where two brothers fall in love with the same woman and decide to kill her to resolve their conflict. In the game, players must compete for the female in a Pong setting and then act out aggressive behavior in a first-person shooter setting to progress. The piece invites gamers to see how popular games perpetuate masculine ideologies of spatial conquest, combat fantasies, and sexual domination.^[14]
• Vib-Ribbon^[15] (1999, Masaya Matsuura, PS1) - A music game starring a wireframe bunny.
• Lullaby for a Dead Fly^[11] (2000, Mouchette, PC) - A player clicks on flies to kill them. Each click is a life-or-death choice. The musical background is Mouchette's song, "You Clicked on me, you killed me."
• Pencil Whipped^[16] (2000, Lonnie Flickinger, PC) - A first-person shooter where all textures are made to look like pencil drawings on paper, and all sound effects were produced by the artist.
• Sissyfight ^[11] (2000, GameLab, PC/web) - An illustration of ruthless social climbing, this multiplayer game allows users to fire off words instead of bullets. Set in a California playground setting, female player characters use teases to drive other players out of the playground.