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

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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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What Will You Have?
A SFW dating sim where there's always something simmering.
aeta
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Shrouded
A midnight church visitation.
sophiades
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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have you seen my body?
caeth
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
KINSALE HORROR
Hitchhike. See what I saw.
Rarykos
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
[TERMINAL]
Narrative Horror game for the DreadXP Extraterrestrial Terror Jam 2024
NotAlexRobins
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Chicken Farmer
who are they?
skiddyhale
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
stuck @ hospital
a short story about passing time and losing patience.
jellicube
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Role for Resistance
A small study of characters
Astrid Dalmady
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Play in browser
Ravaged Space
Your spaceship was hit by an asteroid. Can you repair it before your systems fail?
Steven Lambert
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Survival
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Take
katherine
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
please talk to me
and tell me that you love me
eastoned
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Reflections at Sunset - A meditative Twine experience
An ambient text-based experience inspired by meditation... Your thoughts are yours and yours alone...
Charles H. Huang
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
eat the frog!
a to-do list where you plan your tasks and seize the day!
cairirie
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
i wasn't sure what to make of my new flatmate.
An interactive fiction about a new flatmate.
flatmategame
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
A cyberpunk text-based game inspired by the 70s BBC short films.
Charlie Dart
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
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Din in the Seventeenth Minute
It started with a muted cacophony in the outer banks.
3 Halves Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Kingdom: La historia de una dinastía promedio
Basado en hechos reales
Culo
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Daughter
Ein Streitgespräch über Community
eymeikey
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Kel (2024, words on screen)
An interactive portrait
alyshkalia
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Love, Sam
A quiet afternoon sitting with grief.
sophiades
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Non é o que parece
Juegito experimental
Rafael Alcalde Azpiazu
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Garden of Earthly Regrets
A mystery game of garden exploration
solipsistgames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Yaan Versus the Party
Get out on time—without pissing off your boss.
alyshkalia
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Everything Ends In 0
The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?
findaeden
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Nasty/Good/Badass
A multiple choice personality test
xeneth.design
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Hell of a Journey
Experience a great journey with famous poet Dante and his super "reliable" narrator Virgil.
arirav
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Message
A short horror game of a getting a message from an unknown person.
vengeancev
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
An Ordinary Day
A simple game about going to buy milk
Brendan_Jax
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Fairy Tales of Innocent Children
Chase your shooting star. [Visual Novel, 5 mins]
Bruised Banana
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Trapped
a game about getting an abortion
katerose
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Educational
Play in browser
One-Word Warlock
A Twine game in which every passage is just one word long!
Damon L. Wakes
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
in igni
a rose by any other name still burns
Lapin Lunaire Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Three Minutes to Midnight
A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.​
Thibaut Mereu
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Strategy
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Food From a Stranger
A creepy stranger offers a girl candy.
OctiWriter
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Visual Novel
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
Speakeasy Honey
An interactive fiction game about the whirlwind romance of Charles and Dorothy in 1920s New York.
dostoevshe
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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