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Short

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

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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Important agitprop
Action
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A short text adventure based off of a dialogue in Douglas Hofstadter's G.E.B: Eternal Golden Braid
Interactive Fiction
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Lucas Adler is dead. His Notion reveals a family mystery: every Adler man dies strangely. Can you uncover the truth?
Puzzle
Text-based adventure exploring the island of Splitsbergen
Educational
Escape from prison and survive as a fugitive.
Adventure
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what's done is done, all you can do is watch. but in tracing Jude's footsteps, do you push her closer to the edge?
Interactive Fiction
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A very short simple not-so-interactive interactive story game set in a magical pre-medieval Celtic Ireland
Role Playing
Visual Novel
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An interactive playthrough inspired by my vampire romance novella.
Interactive Fiction
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Fight Flight Flirt
Interactive Fiction
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A Text Based Adventure
Adventure
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A parser interactive fiction, finding out why you are in the house
Interactive Fiction
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All that's left is a computer but answers won't come that easy.
Interactive Fiction
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A short, surreal Twine game
Interactive Fiction
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A small village is surrounded by enemies and partisans. You need to try and survive as long as possible.
Strategy
Don't worry. As long as you are truthful, nothing can go wrong...
Visual Novel
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Love horror? Hate parties? Welcome...
Adventure
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Your essay is due tomorrow, but to your luck you get some unexpected help
Visual Novel
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Find your keys before you miss your bus.
Puzzle
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Fight off the speculators while on your quest to lower the rent prices in your city!
A text adventure prologue for The Left Eye
Interactive Fiction
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round and round and round and
Interactive Fiction
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Incremental Minimalistic Idle Game
Adventure
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Find your way around this Mysterious House
Interactive Fiction
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Just a game for you to play, if you want
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Drive down a road on a road trip you didn't want to go on.
Interactive Fiction
a web based simulation game about an ancient ai buried under the ice
Simulation
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Trapped in a dream world, you are left wondering how to escape and encounter simple scenarios with unexpected solutions.
Interactive Fiction
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Educational
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Simulation
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Almutara has fallen. You're the last hope of taking it back.
Can you navigate the time loop to find the only path of survival?
Interactive Fiction
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A game made in the month of January representing the past, the future and the regret
Visual Novel
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Would you like to play some Russian Roulette?
Strategy
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