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

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The Beast in the Cave (Download Version)
An interactive fiction adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story.
Jeremy Whitson
Interactive Fiction
Cypher
Decypher an alien language.
lemon juice
Interactive Fiction
Locked
​A short story about the struggle of leaving your room.
Nighttraingames
Interactive Fiction
The Lotus Garden
A narrative game following the Flowers from Blaseball
Creepy Ellie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Take
katherine
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
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
clicky clicks dungeon of hand drawn computer graphics
Explore the dolphins artwork in the dungeon/coffee shop
chip-fork
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Locked Room on Rails
A trip back home turns into an impromptu murder mystery.
solarProtag
Visual Novel
Nod If You Can Hear Me
Visit Your Grandmother
Emma Kidwell
Simulation
Play in browser
Neotrogla
A Twine story of bugs and bodies.
Roxy S.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Your Phone Dies in 20 Seconds
You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Crimson Arcade
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Remember To Forget
What if the things that go bump in the night are just pieces of our past?
josieking
Visual Novel
GIF
Who Stole My Bone?
Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!
Kryptic Kitty
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Has sobrevivido: Trauma
Short horror visual novel with three ways to die and only one to survive. Spanish and English.
Gorgon Games
Visual Novel
Bob's Other Story
Just when you thought he said it all
Carl The Cube Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Serenity at Dusk
Here is where a heavy heart asks for rest.
klaiis
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Medieval Psycho
Use Ghost powers to save a kidnapped child.
VasantJ
Adventure
TTYL
Keep up with the group chat or get kicked out in this nostalgic typing game!
302 Slices
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Polemic
Fight with your mech and your words at once.
Davis G. See
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Employee of the Month
An MS Paint text adventure about doing tasks and not getting paid for them!
pikoifishy
Adventure
Eleutheria
Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Grim Baccaris
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
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Haunted Haiku Generator
Poetry for the sick
SexDrugsVideoGames
Play in browser
Food From a Stranger
A creepy stranger offers a girl candy.
OctiWriter
Visual Novel
GIF
Turing Trial
A Short, Replayable Text-Based RPG
Mary T.
Puzzle
Play in browser
critter CATCH!
A game about catching critters at the end of the world.
phobamour swag
Visual Novel
TOM (companion)
It's my first type of game so don't be so strict on me. I will make better games in the future.
Nexo_kit
Fibromyalgia Simulator
a game about living with a really shitty chronic illness
Xandir
Simulation
Girls' Day
A brief memory.
Nice Gear Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Has sobrevivido: Wyrm
A Lovecraftian horror short visual novel set in the Wild West. Spanish and English.
Gorgon Games
Visual Novel
Cider.
:my lgbt story for gay western jam.
Violet_Neon
Visual Novel
CODEQUEST 0
A text-based quest to defeat the CODELORD!
Ussar Datamancy
Adventure
Evolution journey (parvarodentus)
A choice-based game where you must make a rat-like specie evolve in order to survive the events !
Filemon__Filemon
Survival
Applying For Game Dev Jobs Simulator
A text-based odyssey about the world of career acquisition.
Adam Burt
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
A cyberpunk text-based game inspired by the 70s BBC short films.
Charlie Dart
Adventure
Play in browser
please tell me you love me
can you admit your feelings at the end of the world?
ellis dex
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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