Short indie games on Steam

Small games from small teams.

792 indie games on Steam where half of the reviewers had played 8 hours or less when they gave their verdict, Doki Doki Literature Club, Muck and Stray among them.

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And 672 more: Drunken Wrestlers 2 (4 hours), Clustertruck (5 hours), Century: Age of Ashes (4 hours), Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (5 hours), Gone Home (2.5 hours), The Expendabros (2 hours), Banana Shooter (3.5 hours), Choo-Choo Charles (4 hours), Pony Island (3.5 hours), We Were Here Together (6.5 hours), Antichamber (6.5 hours), Labyrinthine (5.5 hours), Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (4 hours), Five Nights at Freddy's 4 (1.5 hours), Surgeon Simulator (3.5 hours), ISLANDERS (4.5 hours), Florence (50 minutes), Overcooked (5.5 hours), Tricky Towers (6.5 hours), The Looker (1.5 hours), One Finger Death Punch (5 hours), Mountain (4 hours), FEZ (7 hours), Strange Horticulture (7 hours), Turmoil (8 hours), Trine (6.5 hours), Contagion (5.5 hours), missed messages. (35 minutes), Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion (2 hours), Retrowave (1.5 hours), Orwell (5 hours), Webbed (6 hours), IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator (5 hours), Dino D-Day (2.5 hours), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (4 hours), Only Up! (5 hours), Friends vs Friends (5 hours), KinitoPET (3 hours), Dead as Disco (5 hours), Deponia (7.5 hours), Bad Rats (1 hour), POSTAL (3 hours), Bad North: Jotunn Edition (7.5 hours), Haste (7 hours), Monster Prom (6.5 hours), The Red Strings Club (4.5 hours), Little Misfortune (4 hours), Serious Sam 2 (5.5 hours), Yes, Your Grace (7 hours), Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (3.5 hours), Furi (7 hours), Everhood (8 hours), Titan Souls (3.5 hours), The Invincible (7.5 hours), Little Inferno (5 hours), Road Redemption (5 hours), The Room Three (7 hours), Viewfinder (5 hours), Jump Space (7.5 hours), Still Wakes the Deep (5.5 hours), Gunpoint (4.5 hours), BOKURA (6 hours), PANICORE (4.5 hours), Shift At Midnight (4.5 hours), DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition (3 hours), Aragami (7.5 hours), Impostor Factory (4 hours), SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE (5.5 hours), Do Not Feed the Monkeys (7 hours), Not For Broadcast (5.5 hours), Amnesia: The Bunker (8 hours), Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location (3.5 hours), Deadlight (4.5 hours), Party Hard (7 hours), Coffee Talk (6 hours), TOEM (6.5 hours), RUINER (6.5 hours), Post Void (1.5 hours), Donut County (2.5 hours), Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator (3.5 hours), The Beast Inside (7.5 hours), Bills Must Be Paid (4.5 hours), Oxenfree (6 hours), Super Battle Golf (5 hours), Pikuniku (5 hours), Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight (7 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), Superflight (2.5 hours), Iron Lung (1.5 hours), BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE (5.5 hours), Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (2.5 hours), We Were Here Too (4 hours), Double Action: Boogaloo (2.5 hours), Hue (5 hours), Learn to Fly 3 (7 hours), Jalopy (7.5 hours), Trombone Champ (4 hours), Genital Jousting (1.5 hours), Assemble with Care (1.5 hours), Paunch (40 minutes), Fears to Fathom - Episode 1 (35 minutes), CastleMiner Z (5 hours), SteamWorld Dig (6.5 hours), Lucius (6 hours), Have a Nice Death (6.5 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), Hand of Fate (7 hours), Easy Delivery Co. (5.5 hours), The Headliners (4 hours), MIMESIS (3.5 hours), Samsara Room (2 hours), Her Story (4 hours), Severed Steel (3.5 hours), 12 is Better Than 6 (4.5 hours), VVVVVV (3.5 hours), Creature Kitchen (3.5 hours), Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist (50 minutes), The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (7 hours), Anomaly Agent (4.5 hours), Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad (55 minutes), Reventure (7 hours), Hand Simulator: Survival (1.5 hours), Pumpkin Jack (5.5 hours), WORLD OF HORROR (6.5 hours), SUPERHOT VR (2.5 hours), Tannenberg (6.5 hours), Braid (6 hours), The Farmer Was Replaced (6.5 hours), Police Stories (5 hours), MULLET MADJACK (4 hours), Radical Heights (2.5 hours), Deliver Us The Moon (6.5 hours), Hidden Folks (5 hours), Devil Daggers (4 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), Thomas Was Alone (4 hours), Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy (4.5 hours), Comedy Night (3.5 hours), Hylics (4.5 hours), Stick It to the Stickman (6.5 hours), 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel (2.5 hours), Overgrowth (6.5 hours), Tetris® Effect: Connected (6 hours), Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) (3 hours), Monument Valley (3.5 hours), Berry Bury Berry (8 hours), Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter (5.5 hours), The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (4.5 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), Loading Screen Simulator (55 minutes), Due Process (6 hours), Jotun: Valhalla Edition (4 hours), Monaco (4.5 hours), Gloomwood (6.5 hours), Defy Gravity (1 hour), Knockout City™ (7 hours), Among the Sleep (3.5 hours), Bombergrounds: Reborn (4 hours), Jazzpunk: Director's Cut (3.5 hours), POSTAL Redux (3.5 hours), Blair Witch (6 hours), Prodeus (4.5 hours), Melatonin (3.5 hours), LYNE (5 hours), Broken Age (8 hours), Echo Point Nova (7.5 hours), Reigns (3 hours), Scribble It! (3.5 hours), KLETKA (6.5 hours), Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery (1.5 hours), Nidhogg (2.5 hours), Cat Mail Co. (8 hours), AMID EVIL (7 hours), AER Memories of Old (4 hours), UBERMOSH (3 hours), Rusty Lake Paradise (5 hours), Dear Esther: Landmark Edition (1.5 hours), Mount Your Friends (2.5 hours), Euro Truck Simulator (2.5 hours), Unfortunate Spacemen (5 hours), Distance (5 hours), The Swapper (6 hours), There is no game: Jam Edition 2015 (35 minutes), Drift86 (2 hours), Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate (5 hours), Beat Hazard (7 hours), 112 Operator (6.5 hours), INMOST (4 hours), Amanda the Adventurer (4 hours), Crawl (5.5 hours), The Flame in the Flood (5.5 hours), Bronzebeard's Tavern (3.5 hours), The Descendant (3.5 hours), Long Live The Queen (5.5 hours), Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative (4.5 hours), Fallen Aces (4.5 hours), Passpartout: The Starving Artist (4.5 hours), Jusant (6 hours), Unsolved Case (1 hour), Out There Somewhere (2.5 hours), Emily is Away <3 (5.5 hours), Epistory - Typing Chronicles (6.5 hours), Leaf it Alone (3 hours), Relic Hunters Zero: Remix (3 hours), Botanicula (4 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 3 (7.5 hours), The Tiny Bang Story (4.5 hours), Stories: The Path of Destinies (6.5 hours), Serena (45 minutes), World of Goo (4 hours), Democracy 4 (6.5 hours), Call of the Sea (7 hours), Rift of the NecroDancer (6.5 hours), Machinika Museum (4 hours), Loddlenaut (6.5 hours), Gravity Circuit (6.5 hours), Race The Sun (3 hours), Murder Miners (3.5 hours), Just Act Natural (2 hours), Blockstorm (4.5 hours), Arctic Eggs (3 hours), Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories (2.5 hours), Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator (8 hours), Killer Frequency (7 hours), Project Warlock (6 hours), Creaks (7 hours), Beat Cop (6 hours), Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp (5 hours), Hot Lava (6 hours), DLC Quest (2 hours), Lil Gator Game (5 hours), The Pedestrian (4.5 hours), Forgive Me Father (6.5 hours), Dear Esther (1.5 hours), The Way of Life Free Edition (35 minutes), Sker Ritual (5 hours), Lethal League (5 hours), Reus (5 hours), I Am Bread (2 hours), Hexcells (3 hours), Evoland (4.5 hours), Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage (3.5 hours), Turbo Dismount (5 hours), Observer (7 hours), Lake (6.5 hours), Idol Showdown (2.5 hours), The First Tree (2 hours), The Ship (4 hours), Devolverland Expo (55 minutes), Machine Party (1.5 hours), DreadOut (4.5 hours), Figment (6 hours), FAR: Changing Tides (6.5 hours), Contrast (4 hours), DEADBOLT (8 hours), Intravenous (6.5 hours), Please, Don’t Touch Anything (2.5 hours), Grow Home (5 hours), Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island (45 minutes), Stories Untold (3.5 hours), The Hex (7 hours), SLUDGE LIFE (3.5 hours), Samorost 3 (6 hours), Beholder: Conductor (6.5 hours), Kill It With Fire (6.5 hours), Job Simulator (4.5 hours), Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 (7 hours), Mother Russia Bleeds (5.5 hours), Murky Divers (4.5 hours), Bread & Fred (3 hours), Gato Roboto (4.5 hours), The Darkside Detective (5.5 hours), Moon Hunters (5 hours), Warpips (6 hours), Bang-On Balls: Chronicles (6.5 hours), GRIP: Combat Racing (4.5 hours), Tales of the Neon Sea (8 hours), SCP : Secret Files (4.5 hours), Tattletail (3 hours), Calico (6.5 hours), CHUCHEL (3 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 7 (6 hours), Zero Caliber VR (5 hours), En Garde! (4 hours), Hard Reset (6 hours), Escape Simulator 2 (8 hours), Hero of the Kingdom (5 hours), Tacoma (3.5 hours), RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike (5.5 hours), Last Day of June (4 hours), SIMULACRA (5 hours), Human Resource Machine (5.5 hours), Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior (1.5 hours), BEEP (1.5 hours), Thinking with Time Machine (1.5 hours), Anomaly Warzone Earth (3 hours), Scanner Sombre (2 hours), Heavenly Bodies (5.5 hours), Electrician Simulator (4.5 hours), One Finger Death Punch 2 (4 hours), Beacon Pines (6.5 hours), LUFTRAUSERS (4 hours), Kentucky Route Zero (7 hours), Shift Happens (4 hours), Never Split the Party (3 hours), Thumper (4.5 hours), DEFCON (3.5 hours), Buddy Simulator 1984 (6.5 hours), Tinykin (8 hours), The Bridge (3 hours), Teeworlds (2.5 hours), Monument Valley 2 (2 hours), Shelter 2 (3 hours), Old Man's Journey (2 hours), Serial Cleaner (5 hours), American Arcadia (7.5 hours), DARQ (3.5 hours), Cyber Hook (5 hours), GUNTOUCHABLES (3 hours), Going Under (8 hours), Receiver (2 hours), Drawful 2 (1.5 hours), The Sexy Brutale (7.5 hours), Penumbra: Overture (6 hours), APE OUT (2.5 hours), Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers (3.5 hours), Tooth and Tail (5.5 hours), 60 Parsecs! (5 hours), Rock of Ages (4 hours), Zombie Driver HD (3.5 hours), HIVESWAP: ACT 1 (4 hours), Shank (4 hours), Golden Light (2.5 hours), Kathy Rain (6.5 hours), Squirrel with a Gun (5.5 hours), Happy Wheels (1 hour), Heavy Metal Machines (3.5 hours), Outland (4 hours), BIT.TRIP RUNNER (2.5 hours), Just Die Already (4.5 hours), HOLE (5.5 hours), McPixel (3 hours), Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball (4.5 hours), Sir, You Are Being Hunted (3.5 hours), Everything (3 hours), Who's Lila? (6 hours), Despotism 3k (3 hours), BOMBANANA! (3.5 hours), Funnel Runners (3.5 hours), MyVoiceZoo (1.5 hours), Dead Effect (3.5 hours), Exit the Gungeon (5 hours), Yet Another Zombie Defense HD (2.5 hours), Betrayer (7 hours), Oh...Sir! The Insult Simulator (3.5 hours), Rock of Ages 2 (5 hours), Kona (6.5 hours), Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty (7.5 hours), Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers (5.5 hours), Shank 2 (4.5 hours), Skillshot City (3 hours), Manual Samuel - Last Tuesday Edition (2.5 hours), Sizeable (3.5 hours), The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters (8 hours), Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter (5 hours), FRAMED Collection (3.5 hours), Moss VR (4 hours), Hellslave (7.5 hours), SUMMERHOUSE (1.5 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 4 (6 hours), HYPER DEMON (3 hours), Sledding Game (3.5 hours), Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator (5.5 hours), Snake Pass (4 hours), Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip (5 hours), 10 Second Ninja X (2 hours), Until You Fall (2.5 hours), ScourgeBringer (4.5 hours), Card Shark (6 hours), Leap Year (2.5 hours), Trover Saves the Universe (6 hours), Fight'N Rage (5 hours), How Many Dudes? (6.5 hours), Supraball (2.5 hours), Braveland (4.5 hours), Zeno Clash (4 hours), Space Crew: Legendary Edition (6.5 hours), Seasons after Fall (6.5 hours), Skate Story (6.5 hours), Organ Trail: Director's Cut (5 hours), ELDERBORN (4.5 hours), Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken (3.5 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 6 (6.5 hours), Later Alligator (5.5 hours), Boomerang Fu (5 hours), SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell (5.5 hours), Happy's Humble Burger Farm (6.5 hours), The Count Lucanor (5.5 hours), Smile For Me (5.5 hours), Out of Space (5.5 hours), Lacuna (6 hours), UNDERDOGS (3.5 hours), SPRAWL (5 hours), Teleglitch: Die More Edition (3 hours), Say No! More (2 hours), Back to Bed (2.5 hours), Gods Will Be Watching (6 hours), Minit (3.5 hours), Fury Unleashed (5 hours), Lightmatter (4.5 hours), Akane (3.5 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 5 (5 hours), Metal Unit (6.5 hours), Neo Cab (4.5 hours), Dreaming Sarah (2.5 hours), Raji: An Ancient Epic (5 hours), Galaxy Burger (6.5 hours), Papo & Yo (4 hours), Valfaris (6 hours), Will You Snail? (6 hours), The Bookwalker (7 hours), Guts and Glory (3 hours), Midnight Fight Express (6.5 hours), Omno (4.5 hours), Delver (4.5 hours), Unboxing the Cryptic Killer (3 hours), Proteus (50 minutes), FORCED (4.5 hours), Silence (6.5 hours), Highway Blossoms (8 hours), Lovely Planet (2.5 hours), Divide by Sheep (3 hours), Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (4 hours), Heave Ho (4.5 hours), House Builder (8 hours), Glyphica: Typing Survival (3.5 hours), In Other Waters (6.5 hours), Hero of the Kingdom II (6.5 hours), No Time To Explain Remastered (2.5 hours), Kabounce (2 hours), Chicken Police (8 hours), They Bleed Pixels (5 hours), Timelie (6.5 hours), KeyWe (4.5 hours), Maid of Sker (5.5 hours), Teslagrad (6 hours), The Last Door - Collector's Edition (5 hours), Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker (55 minutes), Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now (3.5 hours), Slain: Back from Hell (3.5 hours), Dead Pixels (2.5 hours), Hotshot Racing (2 hours), Bus Driver (2 hours), A Juggler's Tale (2.5 hours), If Found (3 hours), Uplink (6.5 hours), Moving Out (4.5 hours), The Red Lantern (3 hours), Paragnosia (2.5 hours), Jamestown (3.5 hours), BARRIER X (1.5 hours), Flock Around (3.5 hours), Bulb Boy (2.5 hours), Cryptmaster (8 hours), Rollerdrome (4 hours), Aviary Attorney (6 hours), Quiplash (3.5 hours), Pathway (7 hours), EDGE (2 hours), Beat Hazard 2 (3 hours), House (4.5 hours), Creed: Rise to Glory™ (2 hours), Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard (1.5 hours), Embr (4 hours), Phantom Abyss (6.5 hours), Solar 2 (4.5 hours), Eldritch (4 hours), Myst (6 hours), bit Dungeon II (3.5 hours), Nex Machina (3 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 2 (6 hours), 198X (1.5 hours), Dropsy (6 hours), Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County (2 hours), Colt Canyon (5 hours), Evan's Remains (3.5 hours), Doors: Paradox (7 hours), Maize (4 hours), Greyfox (3 hours), Wednesdays (2 hours), Learn Japanese To Survive - Hiragana Battle (6 hours), AtmaSphere (2.5 hours), Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter (6 hours), The Hong Kong Massacre (3.5 hours), NOT A HERO (5.5 hours), Hammerfight (2.5 hours), 80 Days (6 hours), Rustler (5 hours), Tumblestone (3.5 hours), Streamline (3.5 hours), Station to Station (4 hours), The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux (4.5 hours), CRYPTARK (5 hours), Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition (45 minutes), Screencheat (2.5 hours), Lakeview Cabin Collection (5.5 hours), Sir Whoopass™: Immortal Death (5 hours), TSIOQUE (3.5 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack (5.5 hours), Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut (3.5 hours), Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (4 hours), McPixel 3 (5.5 hours), Really Big Sky (1.5 hours), Budget Cuts (4.5 hours), KARAKARA (3.5 hours), ROBOBEAT (4.5 hours), OlliOlli World (5 hours), Stacking (7 hours), Black The Fall (4 hours), Aegis Defenders (3.5 hours), Polygoneer (45 minutes), Eliza (6.5 hours), The Stillness of the Wind (3.5 hours), Q.U.B.E. 2 (6.5 hours), Cooking Simulator VR (2 hours), Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York (6 hours), Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (5.5 hours), King Of The Castle (3.5 hours), Slipstream (2.5 hours), Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut (8 hours), Mr Shifty (4.5 hours), Fortified (3.5 hours), The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia (3.5 hours), Rochard (6 hours), The Shapeshifting Detective (4 hours), Sairento VR (3.5 hours), SIMULACRA 2 (5.5 hours), Strike Suit Zero (5 hours), Distant Space 2 (1 hour), Demolish & Build 2018 (5 hours), Paradigm (7 hours), Just Ignore Them (3 hours), Unholy Heights (7.5 hours), Trip to Vinelands (3 hours), Dordogne (4 hours), Laser League: World Arena (4.5 hours), Will Glow the Wisp (1 hour), SpyParty (4 hours), Fashion Police Squad (4.5 hours), Trolley Problem, Inc. (1.5 hours), Golfing Over It with Alva Majo (2.5 hours), Children of Silentown (8 hours), Pesterquest (5.5 hours), Blanc (2.5 hours), FACEMINER (3.5 hours), Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition (4.5 hours), Heavy Bullets (3.5 hours), Cavern of Dreams (6.5 hours), PUSS! (2.5 hours), Greak: Memories of Azur (7.5 hours), The Ramp (50 minutes), Kero Blaster (5 hours), Beyond Blue (4 hours), Morbid: The Seven Acolytes (7 hours), The Inner World (7 hours), BombTag (1.5 hours), Just King (4 hours), The Magic Circle (5 hours), Figment 2: Creed Valley (4.5 hours), Wordle (4 hours), Mind Over Magnet (2.5 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 8 (4 hours), NO-SKIN (6 hours), Osmos (3.5 hours), Fling to the Finish (3 hours), Rune Dice (7 hours), BUTCHER (3 hours), Nephise Begins (45 minutes), The Search (1 hour), Hiveswap Friendsim (5 hours), Tin Can (4 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), Iris and the giant (6 hours), Scam Line (2 hours), Mama's Sleeping Angels (3 hours), And Yet It Moves (2 hours), WHAT THE PAK?! (45 minutes), The Norwood Suite (2.5 hours), Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut (3.5 hours), Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition (7 hours), Scrap Garden (3 hours), Tower of Guns (4.5 hours), Acceleration of SUGURI 2 (3 hours), RUSH (2 hours), Crashout Crew (3.5 hours), Revenge of the Titans (4.5 hours), Inkulinati (6 hours), Arcade Moonlander (1.5 hours), AX:EL (2 hours), DEPLOYMENT (1.5 hours), Polyball (1 hour), A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build (3.5 hours), Splasher (6 hours), Pile Up! (2.5 hours), Waking Mars (7.5 hours), Disc Room (4.5 hours), Through The Darkest of Times (5.5 hours), PropHunter (1.5 hours), Crayon Physics Deluxe (1 hour), 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), Tools Up! (4 hours), Fearless Fantasy (3 hours), Crumble (3 hours), Vertiginous Golf (55 minutes), Along the Edge (3.5 hours), Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack (4.5 hours), Darwinia (7 hours), Defend Your Life (6 hours), Capsized (3 hours), AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome (1 hour), Godlike Burger (6 hours), Kraken Academy!! (7 hours), Anomaly 2 (4 hours), Q.U.B.E. (3.5 hours), Bravery and Greed (5 hours), Aaero (2 hours), Blood Typers (3 hours), Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning (2.5 hours), Swords and Soldiers HD (3 hours), Fingered (1 hour), Stealth Inc 2 (3.5 hours), Chicken Shoot Gold (2.5 hours), The Deed: Dynasty (3.5 hours), The Novelist (2.5 hours), NightSky (3.5 hours), Iron Danger (7.5 hours), Path of Giants (3.5 hours), God's Trigger (4.5 hours), Chronology (2.5 hours), Space Pilgrim Episode II: Epsilon Indi (3 hours), Maiden and Spell (4.5 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. Indie 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.