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So, I love looking through your game recs, and all of them look so interesting!

The only problem is that I have zero money at the moment, or at least zero that can be spent of games.

I don’t suppose you know any good/enjoyable games that are free or have a demo?

(There is only so much time you can spend doing housework or looking for work and I’ve replayed and replayed the games I’ve already got so many times)

It’s funny you should ask. Folks often ask me how the hell I have thousands of games in my Steam library, and the answer is, well, a substantial chunk of them are free to play. Many of them are very, very bad, but there are exceptions – I’ve placed links to the 120 or so that I’d actually recommend to other people under the cut.

A lot of these games are quite short (i.e., average playing time in the five to fifteen minute range), but they're free, so really that's good value for your money! Note: owing to the length of this list, I will not be including descriptions or content warnings – be sure to check the writeups and reviews.

I’ve marked my personal top dozen with asterisks (*). These aren’t necessarily the most approachable or well-constructed titles on this list, mind – just the ones I had the most fun with.

Agent-00

Alien Squatter

Arc Apellago

Atma

Aurora: A Child's Journey

Becalm

Beneath a Steel Sky

BirdGut

Camp W

Cloud Climber

Court of Ashes

Dead Horizon*

Deepest Sword

Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Down Ward

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald

Emily is Away

ERROR: Human Not Found

Estigma

Faefever

First Snow

Flicker of Hope

Frame of Mind

Frog Fractions

From the Shadows

GET OUT!

GNRBLEX

Grace

Gravitas*

Grimm’s Hollow

Hare Apparent

Heart of Enya

Helltaker

Heroine’s Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok*

Himno

Honey Rose: Underdog Fighter Extraordinaire

Hopebringers

HorrorVale

If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travellers

Janosik - Highlander Precision Platformer

K Station

Kari

Karisvale

Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls*

Kidz

Lake of Voices

Last Slice

Loading Story

Lockheart Indigo*

LunarLux - Chapter 1

Mandagon

MetaWare HIgh School (Demo)

Miksa’s Cave

The Mirror Lied

missed messages

Mission Zigloton

Mission: It’s Complicated

Mitoza

Monolight

Mushroom Cats

NaissanceE

The Night Fisherman

Nocturne: Prelude

The Odyssey of the Mammoth

one night, hot springs

One Ping Only

Overclocked*

Perfect Vermin*

Perspective

The Pilgrim

Pink Heaven

Placement

Planetary Planter

Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt*

Project Exhibited

Prologue for a Vacant Kingdom

Quest 4 Papa: Reloaded

A Raven Monologue*

Red Planet Farming

Relic Hunter Zero: Remix

Return.

Roller Riot

Saira*

Senna and the Forest

Shine Within

Shotgun Witch

SKYE

Slay the Dragon!

A Small Robot Story

Soma Spirits: Rebalance

Soma Union

Sono

Soulspace

Space Choice: Data Analyser

Star Apprentice: Magical Murder Mystery*

STAY

Stealthscape

Stones of Solace

Super Crate Box

Super Raft Boat

The Supper

Swallow the Sea

Swarm

Tadpole Tales

TAKANARIA

Tiny Bunny: Prologue

Tori

Tree Trunk Brook

Tukoni

UNBEATABLE

We Went Back

We Were Here

What Never Was

Wienne*

The Wild Eternal

With You

You Have to Win the Game

You Will (Not) Remain

Yume Nikki

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Don't get me wrong, parrots can be incredibly loud. Ripley does one or two shrieks every afternoon to test the emergency broadcast system. But he spends the rest of the day quietly mumbling to himself. So it's a little bit funny when people say to me, "I wouldn't be able to handle the noise of a parrot" and then get a dog that barks its head off night and day.

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It’s 3.9°C at 9:43am. Please reblog and share in the tags what the temperature is right now sr your location

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DEEPLY fucking stressful experience at work today

Okay so most of our tanks in broodstock contain at least two fish, one male and one female clown (obviously, we’re a fish breeding facility) so I was Quite Alarmed when I noticed that one of the tanks only contained a single fish. The male was missing.

I start checking around on the floor, assuming he somehow jumped out. He’s not there. I look in adjacent tanks because maybe he somehow hopped into one of them. He’s not there. Finally my flashlight passed over the drain in the floor and I noticed movement.

Holy shit, he jumped out of the tank and went down the drain.

Now, this is not an ideal place for a fish to be. The drains are full of wastewater. It’s where we put the siphon hoses when we’re cleaning the tanks, and it’s only wide enough for a siphon hose. Definitely way too narrow to fit a net or a hand down there. Not to mention, it’s gross stagnant water and the fish could very easily suffocate.

I told my manager and he just looked at me and went “he’s dead.”

But, because we’re crazy fish people, we’re still not going to give up. My manager makes a net on a stick that’s small enough to fit down the drain. Spends a solid 10-15 minutes trying to catch him, but the fish eventually sinks into the murk and disappears from sight. We flushed clean water into the drain to add oxygen and hopefully revive him enough to swim back up, but there’s no sign of him. At this point we’re all thinking he’s probably dead.

But, crazy fish people that we are, we’re going to try one last thing. We get a Big Siphon. And we fucking slurp him out.

And lo and behold, the boy lives!!! And he’s still got enough zest to start flopping around on the floor!

Currently he is recovering in an isolation bucket and we’re monitoring him for any problems, but he honestly seems perfectly fine to me. He’s swimming around and even started begging for food when I checked on him.

But holy shit I’m still Stressed from this

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Keith Haring Gull!

idea from my friend @ TheBirdist on twitter! i'll be selling stickers with all $ going to a new england queer charity soon

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This makes so much sense

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It's fledgling season I've been really enjoying seeing all the scruffy teenage birds standing around cause they're bad at flying while one or two adults of the same species are nearby Looking at me

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i wish there was an easier way to tell the difference between an "if it sucks hit da bricks" situation and a "sometimes being an adult means doing things that you dont wanna" situation

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*benoit blanc voice* now that is just amazing, mister kira, but you seem to be a lot less bright then i musta thought... we're only broadcasting this program to the kanto region of japan.

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wuk lamat

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happy "closer to 2050 than 2000" day everyone

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Hey, if you never hear from me again it is because I got lost getting to/from my hotel room and am now trapped

I’m honestly not sure I captured all the twists and turns