Short Steam games, 5 hours or less

Games for two evenings, or one long one.

672 games on Steam where half of the reviewers had played 5 hours or less when they gave their verdict, Doki Doki Literature Club, Portal and Crab Game among them.

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And 552 more: Shift At Midnight (4.5 hours), DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition (3 hours), Entropy : Zero (4 hours), Impostor Factory (4 hours), NEKOPARA Vol. 2 (4 hours), Moonbase Alpha (2 hours), Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location (3.5 hours), Deadlight (4.5 hours), Post Void (1.5 hours), Tick Tock: A Tale for Two (2.5 hours), Donut County (2.5 hours), Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator (3.5 hours), DiRT 3 Complete Edition (4.5 hours), Bills Must Be Paid (4.5 hours), NEKOPARA Vol. 3 (4.5 hours), In Silence (3.5 hours), Super Battle Golf (5 hours), Pikuniku (5 hours), FlyKnight (4 hours), The Exit 8 (1 hour), Detention (4 hours), 60 Seconds! (3.5 hours), Biped (3.5 hours), Superflight (2.5 hours), Iron Lung (1.5 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), 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), Medal of Honor(TM) Single Player (4.5 hours), ALTF4 (2.5 hours), Neva (5 hours), Rusty Lake Hotel (3 hours), A Bird Story (1.5 hours), Octodad: Dadliest Catch (4 hours), The Headliners (4 hours), MIMESIS (3.5 hours), Crazy Machines 3 (2 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), YAPYAP (4 hours), Bean Battles (4 hours), Creature Kitchen (3.5 hours), Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist (50 minutes), Anomaly Agent (4.5 hours), Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad (55 minutes), Hand Simulator: Survival (1.5 hours), SUPERHOT VR (2.5 hours), Police Stories (5 hours), INDIKA (4.5 hours), MULLET MADJACK (4 hours), Radical Heights (2.5 hours), Poker Night at the Inventory (2010 Original Version) (4.5 hours), Resident Evil 2 "1-Shot Demo" (35 minutes), Hidden Folks (5 hours), Slender: The Arrival (3 hours), Late Shift (3.5 hours), Thomas Was Alone (4 hours), Storyteller (3.5 hours), Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy (4.5 hours), Comedy Night (3.5 hours), Unravel Two (5 hours), METAL SLUG 3 (2.5 hours), Team Fortress Classic (2 hours), Hylics (4.5 hours), King of Crabs (3 hours), 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel (2.5 hours), Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) (3 hours), Sayonara Wild Hearts (2 hours), Monument Valley (3.5 hours), Operation Tango (4.5 hours), The Operator (4 hours), The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (4.5 hours), DOOM II (4 hours), DOOM 64 (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), Loading Screen Simulator (55 minutes), while True: learn() (3.5 hours), Jotun: Valhalla Edition (4 hours), Defy Gravity (1 hour), Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (4 hours), Digseum (2.5 hours), Among the Sleep (3.5 hours), Bombergrounds: Reborn (4 hours), Jazzpunk: Director's Cut (3.5 hours), POSTAL Redux (3.5 hours), Jet Set Radio (5 hours), Prodeus (4.5 hours), Melatonin (3.5 hours), Knightfall: A Daring Journey (2 hours), GORN (4.5 hours), The Walking Dead: Michonne (4 hours), Reigns (3 hours), Scribble It! (3.5 hours), DEEP SPACE WAIFU (2.5 hours), Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 (3.5 hours), DuckTales Remastered (4.5 hours), Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery (1.5 hours), Nidhogg (2.5 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), There is no game: Jam Edition 2015 (35 minutes), Drift86 (2 hours), INMOST (4 hours), Amanda the Adventurer (4 hours), Bronzebeard's Tavern (3.5 hours), The Descendant (3.5 hours), Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative (4.5 hours), Fallen Aces (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), Out There Somewhere (2.5 hours), Insaniquarium! Deluxe (4.5 hours), Leaf it Alone (3 hours), Relic Hunters Zero: Remix (3 hours), Botanicula (4 hours), Katamari Damacy REROLL (5 hours), The Lab (1.5 hours), The Tiny Bang Story (4.5 hours), Enclave (2.5 hours), Serena (45 minutes), World of Goo (4 hours), Machinika Museum (4 hours), Race The Sun (3 hours), Murder Miners (3.5 hours), Just Act Natural (2 hours), Arctic Eggs (3 hours), Emily is Away Too (3.5 hours), Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories (2.5 hours), DLC Quest (2 hours), Lil Gator Game (5 hours), The Pedestrian (4.5 hours), Ricochet (45 minutes), Bit Blaster XL (1.5 hours), Dear Esther (1.5 hours), Mortal Shell II - Open Beta (3.5 hours), The Way of Life Free Edition (35 minutes), Lethal League (5 hours), In Sink: A Co-Op Escape Prologue (1 hour), I Am Bread (2 hours), Hexcells (3 hours), Evoland (4.5 hours), Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage (3.5 hours), Idol Showdown (2.5 hours), The First Tree (2 hours), The Ship (4 hours), Burglin' Gnomes (4.5 hours), Guilty as Sock! (4 hours), Initial Drift Online (1.5 hours), Devolverland Expo (55 minutes), Machine Party (1.5 hours), DreadOut (4.5 hours), Contrast (4 hours), I Am Your Beast (4 hours), Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (4 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), Boxes (4.5 hours), SLUDGE LIFE (3.5 hours), Half-Life Deathmatch: Source (1 hour), Slappyball (2 hours), Sonic CD (3.5 hours), Barro (50 minutes), Job Simulator (4.5 hours), Spilled! (1 hour), Murky Divers (4.5 hours), Nocturnal (3 hours), Bread & Fred (3 hours), Gato Roboto (4.5 hours), Moon Hunters (5 hours), SCP : Secret Files (4.5 hours), Haste Demo (45 minutes), Tattletail (3 hours), CHUCHEL (3 hours), Halo: Spartan Assault (3 hours), En Garde! (4 hours), Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks (3.5 hours), Roadside Research (5 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), PICO PARK 2 (5 hours), Last Day of June (4 hours), SIMULACRA (5 hours), THE GAME OF LIFE 2 (4 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), Resident Evil 7 Teaser: Beginning Hour (55 minutes), Electrician Simulator (4.5 hours), LUFTRAUSERS (4 hours), Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (3 hours), Shift Happens (4 hours), Never Split the Party (3 hours), Street Racing Syndicate (3.5 hours), Thumper (4.5 hours), DEFCON (3.5 hours), Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley (5 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), DARQ (3.5 hours), Cyber Hook (5 hours), GUNTOUCHABLES (3 hours), Receiver (2 hours), Drawful 2 (1.5 hours), Google Earth VR (2 hours), APE OUT (2.5 hours), Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers (3.5 hours), Rock of Ages (4 hours), GOAT OF DUTY (1 hour), I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (5 hours), Zombie Driver HD (3.5 hours), HIVESWAP: ACT 1 (4 hours), Shank (4 hours), Golden Light (2.5 hours), I Am Fish (5 hours), Happy Wheels (1 hour), Outland (4 hours), BIT.TRIP RUNNER (2.5 hours), Just Die Already (4.5 hours), Ratz Instagib (4 hours), McPixel (3 hours), Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball (4.5 hours), Sir, You Are Being Hunted (3.5 hours), Everything (3 hours), Venba (1.5 hours), Despotism 3k (3 hours), BOMBANANA! (3.5 hours), Funnel Runners (3.5 hours), MyVoiceZoo (1.5 hours), The Deed (2 hours), DiRT Showdown (4 hours), Dead Effect (3.5 hours), Windowkill (3.5 hours), Yet Another Zombie Defense HD (2.5 hours), Oh...Sir! The Insult Simulator (3.5 hours), Hell Yeah! (4.5 hours), Rock of Ages 2 (5 hours), The Fall (4 hours), The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (1.5 hours), Crazy Taxi (1.5 hours), Shank 2 (4.5 hours), Skillshot City (3 hours), Manual Samuel - Last Tuesday Edition (2.5 hours), STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™ (4.5 hours), Sizeable (3.5 hours), Dystopika (2 hours), Sonic and SEGA All Stars Racing (4 hours), Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter (5 hours), FRAMED Collection (3.5 hours), Moss VR (4 hours), SUMMERHOUSE (1.5 hours), Among Us 3D (4 hours), Ghostrunner Demo (1.5 hours), HYPER DEMON (3 hours), Sledding Game (3.5 hours), Snake Pass (4 hours), Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip (5 hours), 10 Second Ninja X (2 hours), Until You Fall (2.5 hours), DOOM VFR (1.5 hours), ScourgeBringer (4.5 hours), Half dead (1.5 hours), Full Throttle Remastered (4.5 hours), Deathmatch Classic (55 minutes), Leap Year (2.5 hours), Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi (2.5 hours), fault - milestone one (5 hours), Supraball (2.5 hours), Braveland (4.5 hours), Zeno Clash (4 hours), Arise: A Simple Story (5 hours), Kill The Crows (3.5 hours), Absolute Drift (4.5 hours), Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures (3.5 hours), Organ Trail: Director's Cut (5 hours), ELDERBORN (4.5 hours), Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken (3.5 hours), Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~ (3.5 hours), STAR WARS™: Dark Forces (3.5 hours), Samorost 2 (1 hour), UNDERDOGS (3.5 hours), Universe Sandbox Legacy (2.5 hours), A Normal Lost Phone (1.5 hours), SPRAWL (5 hours), The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time (4 hours), Teleglitch: Die More Edition (3 hours), Say No! More (2 hours), Back to Bed (2.5 hours), QUICKERFLAK (5 hours), Cars (4 hours), Minit (3.5 hours), Fury Unleashed (5 hours), Lightmatter (4.5 hours), Akane (3.5 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 5 (5 hours), Neo Cab (4.5 hours), Renegade Ops (5 hours), Dreaming Sarah (2.5 hours), Five Dates (3 hours), Raji: An Ancient Epic (5 hours), Papo & Yo (4 hours), Guts and Glory (3 hours), Space Pirate Trainer (3 hours), Puzzle Agent (4 hours), Omno (4.5 hours), Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000 (3.5 hours), Delver (4.5 hours), Unboxing the Cryptic Killer (3 hours), I Expect You To Die (4 hours), Proteus (50 minutes), Among Us 3D: VR (1.5 hours), Dude, Stop (4.5 hours), THE GAME OF LIFE (2.5 hours), Lovely Planet (2.5 hours), Divide by Sheep (3 hours), Unfair Flips (2 hours), Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (5 hours), Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (4 hours), Heave Ho (4.5 hours), Last Report (2 hours), Glyphica: Typing Survival (3.5 hours), No Time To Explain Remastered (2.5 hours), Kabounce (2 hours), KeyWe (4.5 hours), PAC-MAN™ CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2 (1.5 hours), Crash Time 2 (1 hour), 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), What the Fog (1.5 hours), A Juggler's Tale (2.5 hours), If Found (3 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), SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 4 Episode II (4 hours), Back to the Future: Ep 1 - It's About Time (3 hours), Intrusion 2 (4 hours), Bulb Boy (2.5 hours), Genesis Noir (5 hours), Operation: Tango - Friend Pass (4 hours), Rollerdrome (4 hours), Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip (5 hours), Quiplash (3.5 hours), Event[0] (3.5 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), HALF DEAD 2 (3 hours), Hunger Dungeon (1 hour), Solar 2 (4.5 hours), Eldritch (4 hours), Paratopic (55 minutes), bit Dungeon II (3.5 hours), Nex Machina (3 hours), Lead and Gold - Gangs of the Wild West (2 hours), 198X (1.5 hours), UNLOVED (2.5 hours), Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County (2 hours), Mosa Lina (4.5 hours), Evan's Remains (3.5 hours), Maize (4 hours), Greyfox (3 hours), Wednesdays (2 hours), AtmaSphere (2.5 hours), The Hong Kong Massacre (3.5 hours), NiGHTS into Dreams... (3 hours), DeadCore (4 hours), Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines (4.5 hours), Steep Open Beta (2 hours), Tumblestone (3.5 hours), Streamline (3.5 hours), The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux (4.5 hours), Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition (45 minutes), Dragon's Dogma 2 Character Creator & Storage (3.5 hours), Subsurface Circular (2.5 hours), Screencheat (2.5 hours), Dreams of Aether (1 hour), Sir Whoopass™: Immortal Death (5 hours), TSIOQUE (3.5 hours), Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut (3.5 hours), Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (4 hours), Really Big Sky (1.5 hours), F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point (5 hours), Budget Cuts (4.5 hours), KARAKARA (3.5 hours), Space Channel 5: Part 2 (3.5 hours), ROBOBEAT (4.5 hours), Toybox Turbos (3.5 hours), The Desolate Hope (3.5 hours), Black The Fall (4 hours), Aegis Defenders (3.5 hours), Polygoneer (45 minutes), The Stillness of the Wind (3.5 hours), Cooking Simulator VR (2 hours), King Of The Castle (3.5 hours), Gambonanza (4 hours), Slipstream (2.5 hours), Mr Shifty (4.5 hours), Fortified (3.5 hours), The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia (3.5 hours), The Shapeshifting Detective (4 hours), Sairento VR (3.5 hours), Distant Space 2 (1 hour), Just Ignore Them (3 hours), Trip to Vinelands (3 hours), Dordogne (4 hours), Will Glow the Wisp (1 hour), Aperture Hand Lab (35 minutes), SpyParty (4 hours), Fashion Police Squad (4.5 hours), Trolley Problem, Inc. (1.5 hours), Golfing Over It with Alva Majo (2.5 hours), Botany Manor (4 hours), Source of Madness (3 hours), Blanc (2.5 hours), FACEMINER (3.5 hours), Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition (4.5 hours), Heavy Bullets (3.5 hours), PUSS! (2.5 hours), A Fisherman's Tale (1.5 hours), The Ramp (50 minutes), Kero Blaster (5 hours), Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek (5 hours), Beyond Blue (4 hours), BombTag (1.5 hours), Just King (4 hours), The Magic Circle (5 hours), Mind Scanners (4.5 hours), Bee Simulator (3 hours), Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle (4 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), Pressure (2.5 hours), Mind Over Magnet (2.5 hours), Golf Gang (3 hours), The Jackbox Party Pack 8 (4 hours), Osmos (3.5 hours), Fling to the Finish (3 hours), BUTCHER (3 hours), Waltz of the Wizard (Legacy demo) (1 hour), Nephise Begins (45 minutes), The Search (1 hour), Hexologic (4 hours), Tin Can (4 hours), Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri (2 hours), Subway Midnight (3 hours), Cakey's Twisted Bakery (55 minutes), Shatter (3 hours), DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil (4.5 hours), GoNNER (3 hours), Scam Line (2 hours), Mama's Sleeping Angels (3 hours), And Yet It Moves (2 hours), Reigns: Her Majesty (3 hours), WHAT THE PAK?! (45 minutes), The Norwood Suite (2.5 hours), Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut (3.5 hours), Clatter (55 minutes), Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium (1.5 hours), Scrap Garden (3 hours), Acceleration of SUGURI 2 (3 hours), RUSH (2 hours), Crashout Crew (3.5 hours), Arcade Moonlander (1.5 hours), Fill Up The Hole (4.5 hours), AX:EL (2 hours), DEPLOYMENT (1.5 hours), Polyball (1 hour), A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build (3.5 hours), Pile Up! (2.5 hours), Disc Room (4.5 hours), PropHunter (1.5 hours), SEGA Bass Fishing (1 hour), Puzzle Agent 2 (4 hours), Crayon Physics Deluxe (1 hour), Bionic Commando Rearmed (2 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), Tools Up! (4 hours), Fearless Fantasy (3 hours), Crumble (3 hours), Tyrant's Realm (3.5 hours), Cute Cats (1 hour), Vertiginous Golf (55 minutes), Along the Edge (3.5 hours), Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack (4.5 hours), Capsized (3 hours), AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome (1 hour), Anomaly 2 (4 hours), Q.U.B.E. (3.5 hours), Aaero (2 hours), Blood Typers (3 hours), Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning (2.5 hours), RIVE (4 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), 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 5 hours or less, three in four of those reviewers had played 10 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. 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.