Short adventure games on Steam

Stories that fit a weekend.

547 adventure games on Steam where half of the reviewers had played 8 hours or less when they gave their verdict, Muck, Stray and Content Warning among them.

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And 427 more: Jump Space (7.5 hours), Still Wakes the Deep (5.5 hours), BOKURA (6 hours), PANICORE (4.5 hours), DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition (3 hours), Aragami (7.5 hours), Impostor Factory (4 hours), Moonbase Alpha (2 hours), Not For Broadcast (5.5 hours), Amnesia: The Bunker (8 hours), Deadlight (4.5 hours), Coffee Talk (6 hours), TOEM (6.5 hours), Donut County (2.5 hours), SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classics (4 hours), Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator (3.5 hours), The Beast Inside (7.5 hours), Oxenfree (6 hours), Pikuniku (5 hours), Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight (7 hours), FlyKnight (4 hours), The Exit 8 (1 hour), Detention (4 hours), 60 Seconds! (3.5 hours), ARK: Survival Of The Fittest (3 hours), Biped (3.5 hours), RWBY: Grimm Eclipse (5 hours), Destroy All Humans! (8 hours), Iron Lung (1.5 hours), BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE (5.5 hours), We Were Here Too (4 hours), Hue (5 hours), Learn to Fly 3 (7 hours), Strange Brigade (7 hours), Jalopy (7.5 hours), Fears to Fathom - Episode 1 (35 minutes), CastleMiner Z (5 hours), The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes (7 hours), SteamWorld Dig (6.5 hours), Lucius (6 hours), Neva (5 hours), Planet of Lana (6 hours), Rusty Lake Hotel (3 hours), A Bird Story (1.5 hours), Cat Quest (8 hours), Octodad: Dadliest Catch (4 hours), Kindergarten (5.5 hours), MIMESIS (3.5 hours), Samsara Room (2 hours), Her Story (4 hours), The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (7 hours), Anomaly Agent (4.5 hours), Reventure (7 hours), Hand Simulator: Survival (1.5 hours), Pumpkin Jack (5.5 hours), Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition (7 hours), INDIKA (4.5 hours), Radical Heights (2.5 hours), Deliver Us The Moon (6.5 hours), Hidden Folks (5 hours), The Final Station (5.5 hours), Book of Demons (8 hours), Carto (6.5 hours), Slender: The Arrival (3 hours), Late Shift (3.5 hours), Storyteller (3.5 hours), Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy (4.5 hours), Unravel Two (5 hours), Monument Valley (3.5 hours), Berry Bury Berry (8 hours), Operation Tango (4.5 hours), The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (4.5 hours), Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered (8 hours), Half-Life 2: Update (7.5 hours), Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) (4 hours), UNBEATABLE [white label] (1.5 hours), Thank Goodness You're Here! (3 hours), Downwell (4.5 hours), Death and Taxes (4.5 hours), Manifold Garden (5.5 hours), Due Process (6 hours), Jotun: Valhalla Edition (4 hours), Monaco (4.5 hours), Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (4 hours), Knockout City™ (7 hours), Among the Sleep (3.5 hours), Bombergrounds: Reborn (4 hours), Jazzpunk: Director's Cut (3.5 hours), Blair Witch (6 hours), Prodeus (4.5 hours), Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series (7.5 hours), The Walking Dead: Michonne (4 hours), Broken Age (8 hours), Echo Point Nova (7.5 hours), Reigns (3 hours), KLETKA (6.5 hours), The Turing Test (6.5 hours), Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 (3.5 hours), DuckTales Remastered (4.5 hours), Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery (1.5 hours), AMID EVIL (7 hours), AER Memories of Old (4 hours), Rusty Lake Paradise (5 hours), Dear Esther: Landmark Edition (1.5 hours), Nobody Wants to Die (6.5 hours), The Swapper (6 hours), There is no game: Jam Edition 2015 (35 minutes), INMOST (4 hours), The Flame in the Flood (5.5 hours), The Descendant (3.5 hours), Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative (4.5 hours), Tomb Raider: Underworld (6.5 hours), Jusant (6 hours), Journey To The Savage Planet (8 hours), Unsolved Case (1 hour), Out There Somewhere (2.5 hours), Emily is Away <3 (5.5 hours), Epistory - Typing Chronicles (6.5 hours), Eastern Exorcist (6 hours), Botanicula (4 hours), Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour (5.5 hours), The Tiny Bang Story (4.5 hours), Stories: The Path of Destinies (6.5 hours), Serena (45 minutes), Call of the Sea (7 hours), Machinika Museum (4 hours), Loddlenaut (6.5 hours), Arctic Eggs (3 hours), Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories (2.5 hours), Killer Frequency (7 hours), The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (7 hours), Creaks (7 hours), Beat Cop (6 hours), Hot Lava (6 hours), Lil Gator Game (5 hours), The Pedestrian (4.5 hours), Tomb Raider: Legend (7.5 hours), The Gunk (6 hours), Dear Esther (1.5 hours), Sker Ritual (5 hours), I Am Bread (2 hours), Evoland (4.5 hours), Observer (7 hours), Lake (6.5 hours), The First Tree (2 hours), Burglin' Gnomes (4.5 hours), Devolverland Expo (55 minutes), DreadOut (4.5 hours), Figment (6 hours), FAR: Changing Tides (6.5 hours), A Difficult Game About Climbing (6.5 hours), Contrast (4 hours), Grow Home (5 hours), Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island (45 minutes), Unravel (7 hours), Stories Untold (3.5 hours), SLUDGE LIFE (3.5 hours), Samorost 3 (6 hours), Beholder: Conductor (6.5 hours), Murky Divers (4.5 hours), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (8 hours), Nocturnal (3 hours), Bread & Fred (3 hours), Gato Roboto (4.5 hours), The Darkside Detective (5.5 hours), Moon Hunters (5 hours), Bang-On Balls: Chronicles (6.5 hours), Tales of the Neon Sea (8 hours), SCP : Secret Files (4.5 hours), CHUCHEL (3 hours), En Garde! (4 hours), Escape Simulator 2 (8 hours), Hero of the Kingdom (5 hours), Ultimate Zombie Defense (4 hours), Tacoma (3.5 hours), Mini Ninjas (5 hours), Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition (4.5 hours), Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (7.5 hours), Last Day of June (4 hours), SIMULACRA (5 hours), BEEP (1.5 hours), Thinking with Time Machine (1.5 hours), Scanner Sombre (2 hours), Resident Evil 7 Teaser: Beginning Hour (55 minutes), Heavenly Bodies (5.5 hours), Sackboy™: A Big Adventure (6.5 hours), Electrician Simulator (4.5 hours), Beacon Pines (6.5 hours), Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (3 hours), As Dusk Falls (7 hours), Kentucky Route Zero (7 hours), The Legend of Tianding (7.5 hours), Never Split the Party (3 hours), Buddy Simulator 1984 (6.5 hours), Tinykin (8 hours), The Bridge (3 hours), Monument Valley 2 (2 hours), Shelter 2 (3 hours), Old Man's Journey (2 hours), American Arcadia (7.5 hours), The Plucky Squire (8 hours), Strider (7 hours), Turok (6.5 hours), DARQ (3.5 hours), Google Earth VR (2 hours), The Sexy Brutale (7.5 hours), Penumbra: Overture (6 hours), 60 Parsecs! (5 hours), Lara Croft GO (6 hours), Costume Quest (7.5 hours), I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (5 hours), HIVESWAP: ACT 1 (4 hours), Golden Light (2.5 hours), I Am Fish (5 hours), Kathy Rain (6.5 hours), Squirrel with a Gun (5.5 hours), Outland (4 hours), Just Die Already (4.5 hours), McPixel (3 hours), Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: China (6 hours), Who's Lila? (6 hours), The Deed (2 hours), Exit the Gungeon (5 hours), Betrayer (7 hours), Kona (6.5 hours), Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty (7.5 hours), Get To Work (7.5 hours), Denshattack! (7.5 hours), Shank 2 (4.5 hours), Manual Samuel - Last Tuesday Edition (2.5 hours), STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™ (4.5 hours), The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters (8 hours), Aces and Adventures (6.5 hours), FRAMED Collection (3.5 hours), Moss VR (4 hours), Hellslave (7.5 hours), Sledding Game (3.5 hours), Snake Pass (4 hours), The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (7.5 hours), Until You Fall (2.5 hours), ScourgeBringer (4.5 hours), Half dead (1.5 hours), Full Throttle Remastered (4.5 hours), Card Shark (6 hours), Leap Year (2.5 hours), Trover Saves the Universe (6 hours), Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi (2.5 hours), fault - milestone one (5 hours), Braveland (4.5 hours), Space Crew: Legendary Edition (6.5 hours), Seasons after Fall (6.5 hours), Skate Story (6.5 hours), Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken (3.5 hours), Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~ (3.5 hours), Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders (7 hours), Syberia 2 (7.5 hours), Happy's Humble Burger Farm (6.5 hours), The Count Lucanor (5.5 hours), Smile For Me (5.5 hours), Monkey Island 2: Special Edition (7.5 hours), Lacuna (6 hours), UNDERDOGS (3.5 hours), Gods Will Be Watching (6 hours), Cars (4 hours), Minit (3.5 hours), Fury Unleashed (5 hours), The Cave (7.5 hours), Lightmatter (4.5 hours), Metal Unit (6.5 hours), Neo Cab (4.5 hours), Dreaming Sarah (2.5 hours), Five Dates (3 hours), Raji: An Ancient Epic (5 hours), Papo & Yo (4 hours), Will You Snail? (6 hours), The Bookwalker (7 hours), Puzzle Agent (4 hours), Omno (4.5 hours), Delver (4.5 hours), Unboxing the Cryptic Killer (3 hours), I Expect You To Die (4 hours), Proteus (50 minutes), FORCED (4.5 hours), Silence (6.5 hours), THE GAME OF LIFE (2.5 hours), Divide by Sheep (3 hours), Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (4 hours), Heave Ho (4.5 hours), House Builder (8 hours), In Other Waters (6.5 hours), Hero of the Kingdom II (6.5 hours), No Time To Explain Remastered (2.5 hours), Chicken Police (8 hours), Timelie (6.5 hours), Scribblenauts Unmasked (7 hours), Maid of Sker (5.5 hours), The Last Door - Collector's Edition (5 hours), Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker (55 minutes), Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now (3.5 hours), A Juggler's Tale (2.5 hours), Hard Reset Redux (6 hours), The Red Lantern (3 hours), Paragnosia (2.5 hours), SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 4 Episode II (4 hours), Back to the Future: Ep 1 - It's About Time (3 hours), Bulb Boy (2.5 hours), Cryptmaster (8 hours), Genesis Noir (5 hours), Operation: Tango - Friend Pass (4 hours), Aviary Attorney (6 hours), Pathway (7 hours), House (4.5 hours), Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard (1.5 hours), HALF DEAD 2 (3 hours), Phantom Abyss (6.5 hours), Solar 2 (4.5 hours), Eldritch (4 hours), Myst (6 hours), bit Dungeon II (3.5 hours), Dropsy (6 hours), Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County (2 hours), Evan's Remains (3.5 hours), Doors: Paradox (7 hours), Maize (4 hours), Greyfox (3 hours), 11-11 Memories Retold (6 hours), Learn Japanese To Survive - Hiragana Battle (6 hours), AtmaSphere (2.5 hours), NiGHTS into Dreams... (3 hours), NOT A HERO (5.5 hours), 80 Days (6 hours), Rustler (5 hours), Whispers of a Machine (7.5 hours), The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux (4.5 hours), CRYPTARK (5 hours), Sir Whoopass™: Immortal Death (5 hours), TSIOQUE (3.5 hours), Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut (3.5 hours), McPixel 3 (5.5 hours), Budget Cuts (4.5 hours), ROBOBEAT (4.5 hours), Bionic Commando (5.5 hours), Stacking (7 hours), Black The Fall (4 hours), Aegis Defenders (3.5 hours), Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD (7 hours), The Stillness of the Wind (3.5 hours), Q.U.B.E. 2 (6.5 hours), Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (5.5 hours), Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut (8 hours), Mr Shifty (4.5 hours), The Shapeshifting Detective (4 hours), Distant Space 2 (1 hour), Paradigm (7 hours), Just Ignore Them (3 hours), Dordogne (4 hours), Aperture Hand Lab (35 minutes), Fashion Police Squad (4.5 hours), Botany Manor (4 hours), Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010) (7 hours), Children of Silentown (8 hours), Pesterquest (5.5 hours), Blanc (2.5 hours), Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition (4.5 hours), Cavern of Dreams (6.5 hours), PUSS! (2.5 hours), Greak: Memories of Azur (7.5 hours), Kero Blaster (5 hours), Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek (5 hours), STAR WARS™: Bounty Hunter™ (5 hours), Beyond Blue (4 hours), Morbid: The Seven Acolytes (7 hours), The Inner World (7 hours), The Magic Circle (5 hours), Mind Scanners (4.5 hours), Bee Simulator (3 hours), Figment 2: Creed Valley (4.5 hours), Mind Over Magnet (2.5 hours), BUTCHER (3 hours), Nephise Begins (45 minutes), The Search (1 hour), Hiveswap Friendsim (5 hours), Still There (6.5 hours), Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri (2 hours), Degrees of Separation (6 hours), Jack Move (6.5 hours), Subway Midnight (3 hours), Cakey's Twisted Bakery (55 minutes), Ittle Dew (6 hours), Mama's Sleeping Angels (3 hours), The Norwood Suite (2.5 hours), Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut (3.5 hours), Scrap Garden (3 hours), Arcade Moonlander (1.5 hours), DEPLOYMENT (1.5 hours), Indiana Jones® and the Emperor's Tomb™ (7.5 hours), Waking Mars (7.5 hours), Disc Room (4.5 hours), Through The Darkest of Times (5.5 hours), PropHunter (1.5 hours), Puzzle Agent 2 (4 hours), The Ball (5 hours), Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Heart of the Forest (3.5 hours), PLANET ALPHA (5 hours), ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove (4.5 hours), OneShift (2 hours), Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (5.5 hours), Tools Up! (4 hours), Fearless Fantasy (3 hours), Crumble (3 hours), Kraken Academy!! (7 hours), Bravery and Greed (5 hours), Vacation Simulator (5.5 hours), Blood Typers (3 hours), Gunbrella (7 hours), Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning (2.5 hours), Stealth Inc 2 (3.5 hours), The Deed: Dynasty (3.5 hours), The Novelist (2.5 hours), Iron Danger (7.5 hours), Path of Giants (3.5 hours), Dokimon (5 hours), Lost in Random: The Eternal Die (8 hours), Chronology (2.5 hours), Space Pilgrim Episode II: Epsilon Indi (3 hours), Hasbro's BATTLESHIP (4 hours), Accounting+ (1.5 hours).

How this list is made

The sticker on a case is the hours its own page leads with: half of the game's Steam reviewers had played that long or less when they gave their verdict. A game is here when that is 8 hours or less, three in four of those reviewers had played 16 hours or less, it has 1,000 Steam reviews or more, and at least 80% of the reviewers past Steam's two-hour refund window recommend it. Adventure is a genre Steam's store files it under. The most reviewed come first.

The hours are not a time to beat. Most of these games are short; a few are ones most players put down early, and a game's own page shows which, hour by hour. Nothing is placed by hand, and more games are read every night.