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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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A Long Goodbye
a short narrative game about old friends saying goodbye over the phone.
fixgritt
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Forever and Ever
A father will do anything to keep his son safe.
PetricakeGames-IF
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Messenger
Open your heart.
Bonnie
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
TYPE:CAST
Cast demons back to hell with the power of speed typing.
Not Jam
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Action
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Neotrogla
A Twine story of bugs and bodies.
Roxy S.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
House of Loki
A story about the children of Loki and the perils of prophecy.
Keikube
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story
$6.49
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Seraphinite Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(45 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
1 4 the $
Charm Cochran
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
One-Screen Game
pluf
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Puzzle
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salvage.
The devil has come to pay his respects at your father’s death.
Athar Fikry
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Banksy's newborn baby
interactive poem
dino
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Jack Rampage and the Disasters
A game where you meet some demons!
Frankie☆
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Visual Novel
TTYL
Keep up with the group chat or get kicked out in this nostalgic typing game!
302 Slices
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(56 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Your Phone Dies in 20 Seconds
You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Crimson Arcade
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(145 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Blood and Company
A vampire and a grad student walk into a bar...
alyshkalia
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Stuck with you
A late night conversation between two best friends
teletuu
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Banquet
Enjoy a pompous lifestyle in the 19th century.
RaeJune
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Cypher
Decypher an alien language.
lemon juice
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
CRYPTIdate
CRYPTIdate: helping cryptids find love for generations!
Jessica Padkin
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mass of Consumption
The Church has been waiting for you.
cmrnprry
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
What is a video game?
12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
Rosden Shadow
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
EXSP-Tech
A game scarier than actual customer service
Ascendance IF
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eleutheria
Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Grim Baccaris
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Unbecoming
A revisionist body horror denouement
-hexcavator-
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
leaving the nest
Little Magpie's first home away from the nest
Fabi
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
NieR:Cogito
You are a Machine. Make choices about Machines.
Silver Stitch
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
a purrfect catastrophe
The daily chaotic adventures of a little cat
Fabi
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Millika Village
Raius
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Role Playing
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13 Laurel Road
A game about places and the memories they hold.
Crosshollow
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Silent Earth
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future
Fring Frang
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
It can’t be true it mustn’t be true
He couldn't have... could he?
Charm Cochran
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Gender Lab Escape Simulator 2030
can you escape . the Gender Lab,,,,? if you dare....
Natalie Terezi Rei Watts
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Stares Back
The signs brought you here.
StephenW313
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Family Dinner
It only takes one night to change everything.
pansandpots
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(70 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
predicated text
you are a predictive text keyboard
ub4q
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Wumpus Wump You
Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
gate
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Puzzle
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