Robin & Orchid is a parser-based slice-of-life puzzle game about some kids hanging out in a church basement, looking for ghosts. It took me the full two hours to play, and could have taken longer had I not resorted to hints.
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Autumn’s Daughter is a choice-based Undum work about arranged marriage in Pakistan. It’s quite short, running perhaps five minutes to play through once and a little longer to explore fully.
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Impostor Syndrome is a short, choice-based game about a woman presenting at a tech conference. Playing time is probably around ten minutes (I lost track, as I went through it a couple of times). Review after the jump, any spoilers after a longer spoiler space.
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Final Girl is a StoryNexus game about classic slasher horror. It is replayable, and may well take more than two hours to reach a good ending (certainly I didn’t get there), but a single playthrough is more in the 30-45 minute range.
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Their Angelical Understanding is a choice-based interactive fantasy story, and sometimes interactive poem, about being hurt and about how we respond to that hurt.
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Moquette is a choice-based slice-of-life story about a man fighting some sort of existential crisis. It’s executed in Quest, with a number of image and typographical effects I haven’t seen in that system before. Review after the jump.
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling 