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From the devs of Minami Lane, their next game Milki Delivery is a cosy delivery game

Liam Dawe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:35:23 +0000

Love your shorter and more cosy games? Milki Delivery is the latest from the developers of the popular Minami Lane and it looks to be another wholesome one.

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Grab a short free horror experience with the new release of Days Without Incident

Liam Dawe — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:42:46 +0000

First built in 2017 it never saw a release until now, Days Without Incident is a free short horror game that looks worth a go.

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Check out Miniatures, a short mixture of strange tales

Liam Dawe — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:49:51 +0000

Here's one for you if you're short on time, and want to experience something a bit unique. Miniatures released recently from developer Other Tales Interactive.

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Clean up the ocean in the demo for Spilled!

Liam Dawe — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 07:58:48 +0000

Spilled! from developer Lente is a sweet casual game about driving your little boat around to clean up the ocean. It has a new demo available with a big graphics upgrade.

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Point and click adventure Pants Quest gets a Linux release

Liam Dawe — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 11:51:58 +0000

A point and click adventure game all about finding missing clothing? Well, there's been weirder things. Pants Quest gets a native Linux release.

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Wrought Flesh is a delightfully grotesque new FPS out now

Liam Dawe — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:03:00 +0000

Wrought Flesh is a game where you not only eat your enemies corpses to regain health, you also harvest their organs to place inside yourself to gain improved character stats. Totally grotesque and awesome.

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Perhaps now I've seen it all - have a dance and a fight in Sewer Rave

Liam Dawe — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:21:15 +0000

What do you get when you put together a sewer and a bunch of rats? Obviously a rave, plus a little fighting and lots of really weird stuff happening around you. Sewer Rave is out now.

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Thirty Flights of Loving gets a 9 year update including new Linux support

Liam Dawe — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 11:22:43 +0000

A classic from Blendo Games, a short video-game story Thirty Flights of Loving received a 9 year anniversary upgrade and it came along with a fresh Linux port from Ethan Lee.

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The short and somewhat disturbing Swallow the Sea is now on Steam

Liam Dawe — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:37:01 +0000

Short on time and want to play a game? Swallow the Sea is a good choice and it's free so you've got nothing to lose for trying to except perhaps a little of your sanity.

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Fate of Dynasty is a wonderful short, free and open source puzzle game out now

Liam Dawe — Mon, 10 May 2021 08:47:27 +0000

Short on time and want to try something new? It's Free Game Monday™! Come check out Fate of Dynasty which is open source.

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Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is delightfully silly short adventure and a must play

Liam Dawe — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:43:13 +0000

Love your short action-adventure games that have the feel of classic Zelda? Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion hits the spot and as a bonus it's completely hilarious.

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Island Artist is a short and sweet game about relaxing and being creative

Liam Dawe — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:24:47 +0000

Love your small experimental games? I sure do and one I came across recently called Island Artist is absolutely wonderful.

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qomp is a brilliant example of minimalist mechanics and a fantastic idea

Liam Dawe — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:39:07 +0000

In the game qomp you are the ball, the ball that has been thrown around games like Pong for a very long time and you've had enough - it's time to escape.

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Silly comedy adventure Edgar - Bokbok in Boulzac gets a permanent price drop

Liam Dawe — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:49:30 +0000

Edgar - Bokbok in Boulzac, a comedy point and click adventure by La Poule Noire that released in early 2020 has been given a big permanent price cut.

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Intergalactic Wizard Force is a highly amusing short free adventure out now

Liam Dawe — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:54:52 +0000

Intergalactic Wizard Force, developed for the AdventureX Game Jam is well worth a look as it's absolutely hilarious and won't take you long to complete.

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Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure now available for Linux

Liam Dawe — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:55:36 +0000

After a short Beta testing period, it seems Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure is now out properly for Linux from developer Ron Gilbert and Terrible Toybox.

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Become a dodgy-dealing dice trader in Cubic Currency

Liam Dawe — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 11:42:47 +0000

Originally made for the Ludum Dare 46 Game Jam, Cubic Currency has been expanded and overhauled for a full release to have you deal a crazy new currency: dice.

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Oneons: Prisoners is a short, experimental sci-fi rogue-lite out now for Linux PC

Liam Dawe — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 15:09:27 +0000

Enjoy your coffee break games? Oneons: Prisoners looks like it could keep you busy, with an experimental take on tactical rogue-lite combat.

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My Exercise is a peculiar game about doing sit-ups with various animal friends

Liam Dawe — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 08:55:47 +0000

I don't quite know what to make of this. My Exercise is completely bizarre and yet ridiculously charming at the same time, all about some chubby kid doing sit-ups with their dog.

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Have a chat and work on your relationship in We should talk. out now

Liam Dawe — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 19:58:07 +0000

Spin the conversation wheel of fortune in the short-form narrative game We should talk. that's out now with Linux support.

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Short-form narrative game 'We should talk.' arrives July 16

Liam Dawe — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:46:13 +0000

It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk. is an upcoming short-form narrative game about having a chat and it looks delightful.

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Time is the currency of life in TimeOut and it looks ridiculously good

Liam Dawe — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:42:02 +0000

TimeOut is a free and somewhat short narrative adventure from solo dev Christopher Lee and the style is simply incredible.

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Depanneur Nocturne is a short and sweet game about finding a gift

Liam Dawe — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 11:38:10 +0000

Depanneur Nocturne is a short, sweet and experimental game from KO_OP about finding a gift for a special someone in a store that's soon to close.

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Dwellers of the Gut has you rescue the townsfolk inside a giant

Liam Dawe — Fri, 15 May 2020 14:16:22 +0000

Just like with Planetfriend, we're continuing to highlight a few smaller experimental and outright weird games and another recent discovery is Dwellers of the Gut.

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One Dreamer: Prologue, a narrative adventure about a failed VR game developer needs some Linux testing

Liam Dawe — Tue, 12 May 2020 10:19:29 +0000

Developer Gareth Ffoulkes is currently working on One Dreamer, a narrative story adventure about an indie game developer suffering burnout. There's a Prologue and it now has a Linux Beta that needs some testing.

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Keep It Alive - a short game that has you keep a heart beating and a train running from the Pony Island dev

Liam Dawe — Mon, 11 May 2020 11:45:53 +0000

Developed for the Ludum Dare 46 Game Jam that happened in April this year, one of the most interesting games to come out of it was Keep It Alive.

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Try out 'Critters for Sale', an exhilarating short horror visual novel with two episodes out now

-Daniel-Palacio- — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:30:00 +0000

The absolutely exhilarating short horror visual novel Critters for Sale, which was originally released the first day of 2019, had its second chapter ("Goat") available for some time (Jun 2019, actually) and it's worth a look. Note: The article may cause issues if you have photosensitive epilepsy.

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'Discover my Body' is a 10 minute long free body-horror minigame about transhumanism and social alienation

-Daniel-Palacio- — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 11:25:35 +0000

Discover my Body takes place twenty years in the future, in a dystopian society where a strange medical procedure was developed to enhance human consciousness, which is being used by people to escape their miseries and existential despair.

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Indie short FPS 'Monument' has an overhaul update almost five years after the original release

-Daniel-Palacio- — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:16:10 +0000

Monument is an indie FPS that was released in June 2015 to meet 'mostly positive' reviews on Steam. It also got a massive revamp nearly five years later.

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Explore a mysterious structure in 'Meteorite', a colourful and densely pixelated free short metroidvania FPS

-Daniel-Palacio- — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 10:45:39 +0000

Meteorite is a colourful and densely pixelated metroidvania FPS, made in Godot Engine for a Game Jam back in 2018 that's worth a look when you have a few free minutes.

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Please Follow is another short and very tense psychological horror

Liam Dawe — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:44:59 +0000

Please Follow from developer somewhat who also made Please (which I certainly enjoyed) recently released another short psychological horror.

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Nethercard Kingdom - a free deck-builder with real-time battles

Liam Dawe — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:17:00 +0000

I'm always on the hunt for new and exciting games, a big fan currently of deck-building strategy games of all kinds. This never-ending search recently led me to the free Nethercard Kingdom and I want more.

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Thanks to Proton, you can have 'A Date in the Park' in this intriguing free short adventure; some thoughts

-Daniel-Palacio- — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 10:39:07 +0000

A Date in the Park is a lightweight point and click adventure that will take you approximately one hour to solve. It was actually released more than five years ago, but thanks to Proton 4.11, it is now possible to enjoy it on Linux -almost- without any problems.

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Short free Visual Novel "Missed Messages" has beautiful artwork and a mature subject

Liam Dawe — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:30:05 +0000

I rarely try Visual Novels, mostly because too many of them are overly lewd in some way. However, Missed Messages is of a different sort and it's quite beautiful.

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Verde Station, a short first-person sci-fi experience has gone free

Liam Dawe — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 07:55:58 +0000

Taking place on board a space station, Verde Station is a short and lonely experience and it no longer has a price attached to it.

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What Never Was, a short free story-driven adventure game now has Linux support

Liam Dawe — Wed, 29 May 2019 09:08:58 +0000

A recent discovery after randomly going through my Steam Discovery Queue is What Never Was, a short and free story-driven adventure game from Acke Hallgren.

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Your Future Self, a story-driven experimental text adventure has released a Linux version

Liam Dawe — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:16:31 +0000

How about something a little different? Your Future Self is a somewhat short at 1-2 hours story-driven experimental text adventure and it's now supported on Linux.

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The Mirror Lied, a short adventure from the creator of To the Moon adds Linux support

Liam Dawe — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 09:50:12 +0000

For those who appreciated To the Moon (Freebird Games), The Mirror Lied is a pretty short adventure and it now has Linux support.

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Grand Pigeon's Duty, a short & ridiculous adventure game about Pigeons

Liam Dawe — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:40:13 +0000

Grand Pigeon's Duty is a short casual adventure game about Pigeons and it looks like there's a lot of poop.

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'HOOK' is an extremely minimalistic but addictive puzzler that I wholeheartedly recommend

-Daniel-Palacio- — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:07:15 +0000

I must say that at the very beginning I thought the concept of the game was going to be extremely simple and boring, but by the tenth level it not only proved me wrong, but also I was completely hooked with it (no pun intended). There are free levels on Kongregate if you want to give them a try!

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'The Dweller' is a short and minimalistic but incredibly fun and solid puzzler that I highly recommend

-Daniel-Palacio- — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 11:21:11 +0000

'The Dweller' is one of those obscure games that for some reason, despite being well made and original they pass completely unnoticed under the radar, and once you finally play them you not only feel you've spent a couple of hours on a worthy title, but also the fact itself of finding them is totally rewarding.

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'The Secret of Tremendous Corporation' is a 2015 short free point-and-click comical adventure made in 48 hours

-Daniel-Palacio- — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 09:35:27 +0000

This is a small adventure that has been out there for two years, but since it never was covered in GOL, I decided to try it and share with you some impressions. Also, you can't miss the funny DLC included.

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Find the meaning of life in 'Sisyphus Reborn', an atmospheric short free adventure on Steam

-Daniel-Palacio- — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 09:54:45 +0000

If you're looking to play an adventure game but you don't have a lot of time, then you may be interested to check "Sisyphus Reborn", a lightweight (300 MB) and short existential adventure that will only take you 40 minutes to finish (and that includes getting all the achievements).

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Save your land from a supernatural infection in 'Disturbed', a short free visual adventure

-Daniel-Palacio- — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 20:42:32 +0000

Disturbed is a visual adventure with hand-made black and white graphics, where you play as a farmer who needs to save his land from a horrific plague before it's too late. It's FREE.

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Find a missing woman in 'Moirai', a FREE experimental story-driven game with a great twist, some thoughts

-Daniel-Palacio- — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:50:54 +0000

Moirai is a very lightweight and short mini-game (only 13 MB and lasts 10 minutes) with an incredible twist at the end.

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