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Games which have short playtimes and can usually be completed in one sitting.

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Welcome to the Universe
We're all just dots on a screen.
Colton Olds
Interactive Fiction
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A Dodecapedic Box
a 498 words text adventure
zeno pillan
Interactive Fiction
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Town Crier
Choose the events that happen to your city - good and bad!
Florian van Strien
Strategy
Play in browser
[TERMINAL]
Narrative Horror game for the DreadXP Extraterrestrial Terror Jam 2024
NotAlexRobins
Interactive Fiction
Loss for Words
An experiential typing game where you aren't sure what you're typing.
undefinist
Play in browser
Acatalepsy
even in the barrenness, love can be found
deitydogs
Interactive Fiction
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Nudes
Show that booty
Rafiki
Play in browser
Le Héros dont vous êtes le livre
Vous surprenez une conversation suspecte… À vous d’écrire la suite.
Yakkafo
Interactive Fiction
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Role for Resistance
A small study of characters
Astrid Dalmady
Play in browser
Suspended in the air so that all of your weight is concentrated on a single point halfway down your spine
Alone in a dark, unfamiliar room
Charm Cochran
Interactive Fiction
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night houses
squatters folklore. build a house in a single night
foresthexes
Interactive Fiction
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GIF
Learning a foreign language is no easy task, for sure
Have a talk with this foreign language simulator
Martian's Parlor Entertainment
Interactive Fiction
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Bring Back A ██████ For Me
Retrieve your boyfriend’s lost memories of you.
ghostchibi
Interactive Fiction
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Morning Ritual
It's morning. Again. A short interactive story about getting up and depression.
emavel
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Blind Guardian
Defend an ancient structure with hearing alone. Made for the Games for Blind Gamers Jam 3.
popcar2
Fighting
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Hide The Body If You Must
Tabitha Tobar
Interactive Fiction
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My Anime Story
Write a dumb story for this dumb protagonist
Laureste
Visual Novel
The Message
A short horror game of a getting a message from an unknown person.
vengeancev
Interactive Fiction
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salvage.
The devil has come to pay his respects at your father’s death.
Athar Fikry
Interactive Fiction
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Halloween Hypertales
Stories to chill your bones!
Quantum Sheep
Visual Novel
DO NOT KILL THE SLEEPING BEAST
there's a monster in your closet.
mogar
Interactive Fiction
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Final Fantasy XIV: Seven Minutes in Heaven
The warrior of light has a new mission, and it may involve a kiss!
darthsuki
Interactive Fiction
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GIF
We listen, under the rain
You help some ghosts
Ruminio
Visual Novel
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A Typical Game of Dungeons and Dragons
A short, text-based choose your own adventure! What will your legend be?
CountArchos
Interactive Fiction
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Who Will...
A party game about dividing an inheritance.
BlauwPrint
Pretend You Love Each Other
Under orders to win the game, a pair of space mercs have to act married.
Olivia C Dunlap
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Nowhere
The Nowhere - Twine Game
Pedro Marques
Adventure
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All Fall Down
Some girls only know how to fight.
Quakes
Interactive Fiction
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Nasty/Good/Badass
A multiple choice personality test
xeneth.design
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
KINSALE HORROR
Hitchhike. See what I saw.
Rarykos
Interactive Fiction
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Welcome To Hogwarts!
Read through a quick visual novel to understand why Hogwart's is one of the most inclusive places for females!
NabihaK
Visual Novel
A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
A cyberpunk text-based game inspired by the 70s BBC short films.
Charlie Dart
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Meadows XP
The newest and most advanced OS in the globe as of today, March 22nd, 2005
Mario Lois
Interactive Fiction
New Tab
kaelynmauve
Simulation
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CRASH / IMPACT / CONTACT
Stone thoughts in a rock desert. Unsustainable peace.
laughingpineapple
Interactive Fiction
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Dinner at Suzanna's
Your friends invited you over for dinner, which wouldn't be so hard if you weren't a Vampire.
jwfreeman
Interactive Fiction
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