Short casual games on Steam

Easy to pick up, and a weekend is plenty.

313 casual games on Steam where half of the reviewers had played 8 hours or less when they gave their verdict, Doki Doki Literature Club, Crab Game and Stick Fight: The Game among them.

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And 193 more: There is no game: Jam Edition 2015 (35 minutes), Drift86 (2 hours), Beat Hazard (7 hours), Poker Night 2 (8 hours), Bronzebeard's Tavern (3.5 hours), The Descendant (3.5 hours), Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative (4.5 hours), Passpartout: The Starving Artist (4.5 hours), Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™ (3 hours), Unsolved Case (1 hour), Insaniquarium! Deluxe (4.5 hours), Emily is Away <3 (5.5 hours), Leaf it Alone (3 hours), Botanicula (4 hours), Katamari Damacy REROLL (5 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 3 (7.5 hours), The Tiny Bang Story (4.5 hours), Call of the Sea (7 hours), Machinika Museum (4 hours), Loddlenaut (6.5 hours), Murder Miners (3.5 hours), Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories (2.5 hours), Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator (8 hours), Creaks (7 hours), Lil Gator Game (5 hours), Dear Esther (1.5 hours), Hexcells (3 hours), Guilty as Sock! (4 hours), Ninja Kiwi Archive (5 hours), Figment (6 hours), Please, Don’t Touch Anything (2.5 hours), Grow Home (5 hours), Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island (45 minutes), Samorost 3 (6 hours), Slappyball (2 hours), Kill It With Fire (6.5 hours), Job Simulator (4.5 hours), Bread & Fred (3 hours), The Darkside Detective (5.5 hours), Bang-On Balls: Chronicles (6.5 hours), Calico (6.5 hours), CHUCHEL (3 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 7 (6 hours), Zero Caliber VR (5 hours), Roadside Research (5 hours), Escape Simulator 2 (8 hours), Hero of the Kingdom (5 hours), Ultimate Zombie Defense (4 hours), PICO PARK 2 (5 hours), RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike (5.5 hours), Human Resource Machine (5.5 hours), THE GAME OF LIFE 2 (4 hours), Electrician Simulator (4.5 hours), One Finger Death Punch 2 (4 hours), Beacon Pines (6.5 hours), LUFTRAUSERS (4 hours), Buddy Simulator 1984 (6.5 hours), The Bridge (3 hours), Seraph's Last Stand (6 hours), Monument Valley 2 (2 hours), Shelter 2 (3 hours), Old Man's Journey (2 hours), Drawful 2 (1.5 hours), Google Earth VR (2 hours), Tooth and Tail (5.5 hours), 60 Parsecs! (5 hours), Costume Quest (7.5 hours), Happy Wheels (1 hour), Heavy Metal Machines (3.5 hours), Everything (3 hours), Who's Lila? (6 hours), BOMBANANA! (3.5 hours), MyVoiceZoo (1.5 hours), Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers (5.5 hours), Sizeable (3.5 hours), FRAMED Collection (3.5 hours), Peggle Nights (5 hours), Moss VR (4 hours), SUMMERHOUSE (1.5 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 4 (6 hours), Sledding Game (3.5 hours), Snake Pass (4 hours), Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip (5 hours), How Many Dudes? (6.5 hours), Supraball (2.5 hours), Braveland (4.5 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 6 (6.5 hours), Boomerang Fu (5 hours), Smile For Me (5.5 hours), Out of Space (5.5 hours), Say No! More (2 hours), Back to Bed (2.5 hours), Akane (3.5 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 5 (5 hours), Dreaming Sarah (2.5 hours), Galaxy Burger (6.5 hours), Papo & Yo (4 hours), Guts and Glory (3 hours), Puzzle Agent (4 hours), Omno (4.5 hours), Unboxing the Cryptic Killer (3 hours), Proteus (50 minutes), Among Us 3D: VR (1.5 hours), THE GAME OF LIFE (2.5 hours), Highway Blossoms (8 hours), Divide by Sheep (3 hours), House Builder (8 hours), Hero of the Kingdom II (6.5 hours), No Time To Explain Remastered (2.5 hours), KeyWe (4.5 hours), PAC-MAN™ CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2 (1.5 hours), Scribblenauts Unmasked (7 hours), Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker (55 minutes), If Found (3 hours), Moving Out (4.5 hours), The Red Lantern (3 hours), Paragnosia (2.5 hours), Flock Around (3.5 hours), Backyard Baseball '97 (5.5 hours), Operation: Tango - Friend Pass (4 hours), Quiplash (3.5 hours), Beat Hazard 2 (3 hours), Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard (1.5 hours), Embr (4 hours), Solar 2 (4.5 hours), Myst (6 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 2 (6 hours), Quantum Conundrum (6.5 hours), Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County (2 hours), Colt Canyon (5 hours), Evan's Remains (3.5 hours), Doors: Paradox (7 hours), 11-11 Memories Retold (6 hours), AtmaSphere (2.5 hours), Tumblestone (3.5 hours), Station to Station (4 hours), TSIOQUE (3.5 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack (5.5 hours), McPixel 3 (5.5 hours), KARAKARA (3.5 hours), Polygoneer (45 minutes), Cooking Simulator VR (2 hours), King Of The Castle (3.5 hours), Slipstream (2.5 hours), Rochard (6 hours), Skyborn (8 hours), Distant Space 2 (1 hour), Trolley Problem, Inc. (1.5 hours), Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010) (7 hours), Cavern of Dreams (6.5 hours), The Ramp (50 minutes), Beyond Blue (4 hours), BombTag (1.5 hours), Just King (4 hours), Bee Simulator (3 hours), Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy (3.5 hours), Figment 2: Creed Valley (4.5 hours), Sex Chess (1 hour), Wordle (4 hours), Golf Gang (3 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 8 (4 hours), KarmaZoo (4.5 hours), Osmos (3.5 hours), Fling to the Finish (3 hours), Nephise Begins (45 minutes), Degrees of Separation (6 hours), WHAT THE PAK?! (45 minutes), The Norwood Suite (2.5 hours), RUSH (2 hours), Crashout Crew (3.5 hours), Arcade Moonlander (1.5 hours), Polyball (1 hour), Pile Up! (2.5 hours), PropHunter (1.5 hours), Puzzle Agent 2 (4 hours), Crayon Physics Deluxe (1 hour), ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove (4.5 hours), OneShift (2 hours), Tools Up! (4 hours), Fearless Fantasy (3 hours), Defend Your Life (6 hours), Kraken Academy!! (7 hours), Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning (2.5 hours), Word Play (5.5 hours), Swords and Soldiers HD (3 hours), Fingered (1 hour), Chicken Shoot Gold (2.5 hours), The Novelist (2.5 hours), NightSky (3.5 hours), Path of Giants (3.5 hours), Dokimon (5 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. Casual 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.