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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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The Secret
Should you tell your friend how you really feel?
Amy Clare Fontaine
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Circus Game: Creating a Legacy
Awesome text based game
ChilliTech
Visual Novel
Play in browser
experiments (window + 273)
a blast from the past. interesting projects that deserve to be preserved but are *not* good
joan adams
Interactive Fiction
Dogestory, a tale about Home
Dogestory is a short interactive tale written in Twine.
Alrunia
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Night on the Town
An original cyberpunk Twine game with branching interactions and dialogue. Welcome home, runner.
Jake Rowe
Play in browser
Rust/Blood
The walls are covered in
June Flower
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Marooned Chapter 1
Casey finds himself on the beach of a mysterious island. Help him find his way inside the island.
MisguidedGames
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Circus School
Text adventure built in C++
DavidHarper
Adventure
a bunch of you in a crowded room
it helps to talk to yourself
caeth
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Cosmonaut
In this short story, a Cosmonaut struggles with personal demons in the isolation of space.
Wyatt_GG
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
reunion
find your ex at the end of the world
caeth
Play in browser
I WAS BORN BURNING
aliengeometries
Play in browser
The Great Prison Break
A text adventure game filled with high excitement.
Sujatro Games
Survival
Recursed
A story about stories.
Tess
Interactive Fiction
Ghost Insight: Abandonment (5/9;1/5)
Follow a young girl and the ghosts that haunt her.
Spilled Games
Interactive Fiction
The Sarcastic Escape
A short light-humor text adventure with audio queues
etch-light studios
Adventure
Shadow's Flight
As the shadow of a sorcerer, you need to escape his tower before he can bargain you for more power
Christina Nordlander
Adventure
GIF
Love Pong
A Chat Simulation where you may not say what you want
rubyleehs
Simulation
Play in browser
Spellsforce
Match the right ingredients to the spells
cygni
Puzzle
Play in browser
My Anime Story
Write a dumb story for this dumb protagonist
Laureste
Visual Novel
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service (Demo)
One day, HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one.
etherane
Adventure
Play in browser
I'm scared of darkness
Text horror game. Are you able to survive this night~?
Hekkoto
Electric Sleep
$4.50
Explore a miniature world as an emotionally driven robot and discover unique experiences with each new emotion.
Cryru
Interactive Fiction
Her
"Her" is a short horror story about the consequences of heartbreak.
alexisalextimesthree
Garden Stroll
tyedye105
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Emergency Operator: Savannah Demo
The heroes who help in the midst of panic, shock and distress.
zmcn
Simulation
Play in browser
I/N TRAN//SIT
"An angst-ridden 22 year old rides the bus."
asuwang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Misty Mountains : An Electronic Odyssey
A short story about a thing and you
Koneko
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
precipice
a game about a decision
corvidzz
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
a conversation with a dictionary
kian.c.peters
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Rooms 2
text-based rooms game 2
Myuwo
Interactive Fiction
Let's Get Groceries
You either get groceries or you don't. The choice is yours.
Spookybot
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Unbecoming
A revisionist body horror denouement
-hexcavator-
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Keep of the Mad Wizard
a jumbled gamebook
No Time To Play
Role Playing
Play in browser
Detextive
Walk around and talk to suspects to determine who killed green!
DogHouseRockers
Puzzle
Slacks Attacks Mother Nature
An interactive story about jeans.
Slacks
Interactive Fiction
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