Top rated free Interactive Fiction games that last about a half-hour

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Therapy with Dr. Albert Krueger

dino999z

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(2,459 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

one night, hot springs

a young transgender woman goes to the hot springs.

npckc

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(1,302 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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Trigaea

Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+

RynGM

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(623 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Zorlok

Dark comedy about a demon and the nerdy teen they're bound to serve.

albie

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(466 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Unraveled

Scour dark realms for answers and escape The Entity's grasp before it's too late...

Xiibii

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(294 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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you're just imagining it

a chronic illness simulator

npckc

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(377 total ratings)

Simulation

Gentle Fall [Demo]

As the leaves fell... i felt the need to protect you forever.

Isa, Isa

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(487 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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IF - Mafiafell

Play as a customizable "Frisk" through a mafia-run Ebott City in search of your missing brother.

Darkpetal16

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(268 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Nekojishi

A visual novel about the pressures and consequences of deciding your future in a world of gods and spirits.

Studio Klondike

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(797 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Invite Me In [DEMO]

Yandere Horror Visual Novel

squidcolas

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(709 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

Mushroom Musume

Grow a mushroom from a spore to a fine young woman!

MortallyMoonstruckGames

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(400 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

TOMATO CLINIC

donate blood for vampires! a visual novel.

npckc

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(615 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

10-103: NULL KELVIN

Infiltrate. Investigate. Exterminate.

Nerdspartan

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(208 total ratings)

Action

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GIF

A Circle of Charity

old memories rot away

Bagenzo

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(214 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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May I Take Your Order

A Light Goreromantic Comedy

AlexisRoyce

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(477 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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A Witch's Word

You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.

RainbowStarbird

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(737 total ratings)

Simulation

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The Second Sight: Dead Reckoning

You’re an urban legend in a county full of them.

spoiledsweet

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(204 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Social Democracy: An Alternate History

You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?

Autumn Chen

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(144 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GUTLESS

hadopelagic false light

DOMINO CLUB

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(102 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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10-103

A short action and narrative horror experience as a Special Ops. Infiltrate. Investigate. Exterminate.

Nerdspartan

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(223 total ratings)

Survival

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Perseids, or, All This Will Go On Forever

four trans girlfriends in a car

communistsister

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(101 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Love After Death

Echo_

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(98 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Limbo Line

Man a multidimensional support line. What could possibly go wrong?

Melancholy Marionette

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(135 total ratings)

Visual Novel

PENGUIN CAFE

alone at a cafe after your date never shows up.

npckc

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(324 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

Dating Killmulator

A serial killer, a popular guy, and a psychologist. Who will you date?

Unai Estavillo Bonet

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(137 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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a call for help

are you still there?

C2PHOS

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(147 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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THERE SWINGS A SKULL

Like joined wicks, we'll all burn together

Quinn K.

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(107 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Pirated Code

Tsundere Amnesiac AI x Pathetic Space Pirate

hollowmend

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(197 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Moment to Midnight

An unorthodox little narrative game

taxiderby

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(101 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Inner Demons (hiatus)

A supernatural horror story set in modern-day Seattle. Will you save the world or succumb to the darkness?

a.w. morgan

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(172 total ratings)

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Prehistoric Relations

Dating sim but with dinosaurs and prehistoric animals

PR Crew

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(116 total ratings)

Visual Novel

BOAT PROM

Can a gay disaster find love on the high seas?

Brendan Patrick Hennessy

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(147 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Rainy Day

Go to work, they said, have a life, they said...

Thaisa

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(234 total ratings)

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GIF

The Hostage

Blinded & bound, can you free yourself from your captor? Would you even want to?

Melancholy Marionette

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(184 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Esper: Fugitive

A dystopian urban fantasy interactive fiction game

petrichor

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(193 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Gender Dysphoria

negative experiences after coming out as transgender

exodrifter

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(134 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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