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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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answer these 10 questions and i'll tell you what kind of lover you are
a choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz
frannym
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(1,550 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(649 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Please Answer Carefully
a horror survey game
litrouke
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(2,463 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Who Stole My Bone?
Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!
Kryptic Kitty
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(195 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
a man outside
a friendly horror game in your neighborhood
litrouke
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(635 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
cain
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(175 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Rose garden sentiments
You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden
teletuu
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(105 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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reunion
find your ex at the end of the world
caeth
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(102 total ratings)
Play in browser
Something A Little Super
Raise a super powered kid.
Barbara Truelove
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(60 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service (Demo)
One day, HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one.
etherane
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(76 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Soft Underbelly
Take a break. Talk to your cat about friendship, trust & care.
rosa✦dev
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(103 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Right Todd
Only one Todd has the key that other Todd needs to escape.
Shawn Bowers!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(60 total ratings)
Puzzle
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A Dark Forest
Incremental Minimalistic Idle Game
TinyTakinTeller
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(165 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Just Cosplay
A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.
Deadnettle Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(57 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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GIF
The Painting
Those we love are never truly gone.
Tymedust Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(130 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Disharmony
An investigative IF journey into the unknown.
Pink Soda Studios
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Latebus
You can't remember your name.
kapitha
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(55 total ratings)
Adventure
woebegone.
when breathing has become a chore. when to exist is a trial.
louey
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(114 total ratings)
Simulation
Wake Up
Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.
Inverge Studios
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(97 total ratings)
Play in browser
Welcome Back
A text-based game about the space between endings and beginnings.
Nessa Cannon
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(69 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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stay with me
(you're not alone)
steff
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(53 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Skynet Simulator
You are Skynet
edisgreat
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(103 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
i've been drinking again
2023 Neo-Twiny jam entry
yuveim
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Drown With Me Demo
Mermaids vs Pirates
Barbara Truelove
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Growing Pain
A chat with a childhood friend.
cassian
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
System Processing
Ov, a digital caretaker, spends their last day of work with Laðə, a curious alien.
albie
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Please Tell Me I Love You
A short conversation about a relationship
A G Moody
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
(almost eleven)
a prose poem about the end of a friendship
spacedfoxes
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
carnificare
a stranger tells you a story about a monster.
cerberus
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Series of Interactive Stories Where No Matter What You Do You Are Immediately Killed by a Werewolf
Can you escape the werewolf? (No.)
Luke Burns
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
please tell me you love me
can you admit your feelings at the end of the world?
ellis dex
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(76 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(86 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Half
A short experience around cultural identity.
Emma Kidwell
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Girls' Day
A brief memory.
Nice Gear Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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