narrative games

Browse 94 short narrative games you can play on ShortPlay.

Trust Me Bro cover

Trust Me Bro

By AAA Gaming Company

Cause mayhem, destroy public property, and maybe even find true love.

narrative

There, happy! cover

There, happy!

By Thibaud Ligneul

Your therapist shares a little bit too much, can YOU help them?

narrative

Scaled Dungeon cover

Scaled Dungeon

By Jessinho

A puzzle about scaling objects - you are a little wizard trying to get out of the dungeon.

puzzle

Afterburn cover

Afterburn

By ELZIBEHT

HYPERIA'S VERSE.

narrative

Littods cover

Littods

By ELZIBEHT

JOINED IN THE ENDLESS REACH.

narrative

Nevermine cover

Nevermine

By ELZIBEHT

PROOF OF A BEATING HEART.

narrative

Tides End cover

Tides End

By Bijoy K

Picture puzzle game to unlock a chilling underwater tale

puzzle

Find Bug cover

Find Bug

By flavedogame

In this game, the bugs aren’t mistakes — they’re your only way out.

puzzle

Gone But Here cover

Gone But Here

By flavedogame

A puzzle game about loss, love, and a very good dog.

puzzle

High Score Chaser cover

High Score Chaser

By flavedogame

a narrative text-deduction game set in the chaotic world of short-video algorithms

narrative

Theunseenawakening cover

Theunseenawakening

By flavedogame

Blind Accessible Game that you are a healer to support your team fighting and exploring the source that take your sight

adventure

Failed State cover

Failed State

By VoltekPlay

Politics, power, and a nation on the brink.

sim

Mushroom Hunt cover

Mushroom Hunt

By Polyducks

An entry for the Adventuron Cavejam

adventure

Potbound cover

Potbound

By Polyducks

An RPG about control

adventure

Blipp cover

Blipp

By vidarn

Help the creatures find their way

adventure

Taxi Quest 66 cover

Taxi Quest 66

By SweetHeart Squad

"Perfect weather, isn't it?"

narrative

Taxi Quest 67 cover

Taxi Quest 67

By SweetHeart Squad

"A boat is fundamentally different than a car."

narrative

Mothermary cover

Mothermary

By R Beny (cxmi)

a christmas special

narrative

Space Frog cover

Space Frog

By Npckc

a story of a frog in space.

adventure

229 cover

229

By Npckc

a journey you can only make once every four years...

adventure

Amber Light cover

Amber Light

By Finn Truong

A game about trying to be okay

adventure

Forsaken cover

Forsaken

By Finn Truong

A story of the constellation

adventure

Never End cover

Never End

By Finn Truong

A atmospheric platformer about trying to run away

platformer

Silhouette cover

Silhouette

By Finn Truong

A story about losing yourself

adventure

Valorie cover

Valorie

By Finn Truong

A short adventure of a bird who hates light

adventure

Drink cover

Drink

By Gabriel Cornish

A 1-minute puzzle game about collecting water before a 100 year drought

puzzle

Intersigne cover

Intersigne

By manonamora

A sign or superstition?

narrative

Sps Iron Hammer cover

Sps Iron Hammer

By manonamora

A space mystery interactive fiction game.

narrative

Planet Probe cover

Planet Probe

By Letipas

The story of the last survivors and their struggle to rebuild the post-apocalyptic Earth

action

Mushroom Betrayal cover

Mushroom Betrayal

By Ariorick

Condensed cinematic quest about diving into a mini-universe

adventure

Afk cover

Afk

By Fuzzyzilla

The player has gone afk, and it's up to you to complete the quest on their behalf.

puzzle

Grifters Galaxy cover

Grifters Galaxy

By MaryTheProducer

Play as an imprisoned astronaut trying to escape by haggling with aliens!

narrative

Packing And Unpacking cover

Packing And Unpacking

By NuSan

Tiny narrative-puzzle jam game about packing and unpacking in harsh situations

puzzle

Binary cover

Binary

By Brin

Save the world, one YES/NO at a time.

adventure

Self Care cover

Self Care

By Brin

be kind to yourself.

narrative

Heartbeat cover

Heartbeat

By eckartg

goodbye little thing

narrative

Museum Servivit cover

Museum Servivit

By STARDICE🎲Games

Join Angelo in his first day at the Servivit Museum

narrative

Secondhand cover

Secondhand

By José Tomás Contreras

Henry thought he found the perfect couch. Until he stumbled into a cult.

narrative

Dead Color cover

Dead Color

By Elymal

Something is under the paint.

arcade

Where Stars Used To Sing cover

Where Stars Used To Sing

By benny

Every clue sends you further into the past... until you discover what was truly forgotten.

narrative

Beyond the Veil cover

Beyond the Veil

By Galdormin

Hugo isn’t a cheerful boy, and he’s even less so when it comes to visiting his grandfather, the graveyard keeper.

narrative

Pooky Pet cover

Pooky Pet

By Macrow

Care for your pet... or else

narrative

UPLIFT cover

UPLIFT

By Quiétude

Make your way up in this cosy point-and-click adventure.

narrative

Wanderlust. cover

Wanderlust.

By GingaaBread

Play as a grieving father on a heartfelt journey to fulfill his late daughter’s final wishes.

narrative

takeover cover

takeover

By CinemaLeo

vote carefully to keep the government democratic

arcade

The Atlantis Inquiry cover

The Atlantis Inquiry

By Magpie

A submarine on a diplomatic mission to Atlantis has crashed... You must find out why...

platformer

Are You With Us? cover

Are You With Us?

By THE_T_V1RUS

Speak as the dead to the living - Roles Reversed - GMTK 2023 (#50 Overall)

narrative

Drawn Apart cover

Drawn Apart

By HugBug

A point-and-click story of chance, fate, and grief.

narrative

Obstacle to Lovers cover

Obstacle to Lovers

By MaryTheProducer

Dating sim where you play as a Pipe trying to date Flappy Bird

narrative

Another door cover

Another door

By AUteam

Solve puzzles, travel across different dimensions, find new ways to look at things!

puzzle

ANTIGONE cover

ANTIGONE

By ELZIBEHT

BEFORE THE LIGHT OF GOD.

narrative

Beyond the UnderGround cover

Beyond the UnderGround

By pke1029

A heart-fluttering exercise in butterfly watching while trying to find out what's beyond the surface of daily life.

adventure

Cordyception cover

Cordyception

By nilolo

A parasitic bullet-hell adventure

narrative

Dumber dwarves cover

Dumber dwarves

By Deepnight Games

Dumber Dwarves is a dungeon crawler where you can’t control the adventurers. And they are kind of stupid.

narrative

Professor Lucifer cover

Professor Lucifer

By ROWAN FUTURE

Take your trusty lantern and venture into the night!

narrative

Hero's Hero DX cover

Hero's Hero DX

By Cosmic Crystal Games

A short arcade-puzzle adventure made for GB Jam 11!

narrative

Lithic cover

Lithic

By Lukko Digital

Explore the dungeons of Lithic, translate ancient riddles, and meet the locals. A sokoban/narrative experience.

narrative

Lurk. cover

Lurk.

By Case Portman

They just want to play.

narrative

Manor Of Monsters cover

Manor Of Monsters

By singleshotgamer

Explore The Haunted mansion, to save your friends. Fight monsters, solve puzzles, Collect items. Zelda like

narrative

Our Dearest Player cover

Our Dearest Player

By Blazer

A short point-and-click narrative made in 24 hours for the GMTK jam.

narrative

REVENGE CITY cover

REVENGE CITY

By ROBOWARRIOR

A gta-clone in 64px made for the lowrezjam2021 !

narrative

Sally's House cover

Sally's House

By AGG - ArtistGamerGal (Laura Kerger)

Try to solve the mystery of Sally's house. Has two different endings!

narrative

Squirveillance cover

Squirveillance

By nickadance

You're not nuts if they're really after you.

narrative

Static cover

Static

By the.rozen.tal

Decipher the broken radio waves before it's too late

narrative