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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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Suspended in the air so that all of your weight is concentrated on a single point halfway down your spine
Alone in a dark, unfamiliar room
Charm Cochran
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Turing Trial
A Short, Replayable Text-Based RPG
Mary T.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Honey Twigs
A warm and fluffy adventure.
Charu Tak
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Elysium
Immortal hero, here is where you lie.
ethersic
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
A Short Eternity
1000 words. A boat at the end of the world. Will you survive?
Halfstar
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
One More Time❄️
beats to relax/meet up to
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
he's not my
a multiple choice game about discerning friendship
xed
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
INEVITABLE
A game about toxic love.
Jon Oldblood
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Sleepy Tales
Tell your sister stories until she falls asleep
classheikki
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
special girls
special girls special girls special girls
girl software
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(66 total ratings)
Play in browser
The good people
Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you
Pseudavid
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Your Hogwarts Story
A Choose your own Adventure Text Game about going to Hogwarts
DigiTale
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Role Playing
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the ride home
Your second driving lesson.
cassian
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Messages
An odd game about texting.
Jusiv
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Masks
On a campus under siege by riot police you count down to the end...
samplereality
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Content Moderator Sim
A workplace horror game, playable in 5 minutes.
samplereality
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
No Story Here
a short conversation with an undeveloped character
everflow
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Postal Secret
Postal secret no longer counts! Short atmospheric puzzle solving for a relaxing evening.
Ymar Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Puzzle
you need to buy a phone charger
online shopping in a late capitalist hellscape
zorkie
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
HARBINGER.html
How to reshape a ruined world.
Grim Baccaris
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
RCI
A short game about examining three colorful, floating cubes in your apartment.
Kyle
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Let's Play Yophoop!
The historical children's game, now in intfic form!
June Flower
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Simulation
Habeas Corpus
Abandoned spaces in the bowels of a wandering fortress.
Grim Baccaris
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
free bird.
closed door. feathered fury.
Passerine
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Question: An Interlude
A text-based game about coming out and the weight of our responses.
miserable little smug bastard
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
DO NOT KILL THE SLEEPING BEAST
there's a monster in your closet.
mogar
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Daily Murder
Daily murder mysteries. Talk to suspects, detect lies, and accuse the murderer and their motive.
phaddius
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Truffle Wizard
Truffles. Herbs. Onions. Forbidden Magic?!
Tim Knauf
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
No !@#$s Left to Give
A short abstract visual novel about what you feel about having too many or too little !@#$s left to give
Knickknack PJ
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
CRASH / IMPACT / CONTACT
Stone thoughts in a rock desert. Unsustainable peace.
laughingpineapple
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Generate-a-Date
A text-based speed dating sim.
Deadnettle Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Death's Gambit
A gamble with a unique guest for an intriguing price.
SjoerdHekking
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In the Cards
A midnight encounter with a revenant.
sophiades
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Emm1.r
A strange chatroom veils a very dark mystery...
Ayane Faeldori
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Welcome to the demon tower!
Navigate the tower! Fight the demon king! Deal property damage!
versegm
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Seethe
A Short Story
HEXRAE
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
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