The Best Short Video games for people who have short time for PC, PS4, Xbox One, OS, IOS and Android - Ultimate Guide

In a world as interactive as today where children are almost born with a phone or a computer in hand, the games have evolved to become more and more complicated, this of course benefits the player, but the players of the old guard, those who are no longer such children feel nostalgia for those simpler games, today we measure the quality of a game for the time that keeps us tied to the screen, and of course for a child this is spectacular but for the vast majority of people who have responsibilities and who must work this is not so beneficial. That is why we have prepared this little article where we list a series of games, with the idea of ​​taking advantage of those dead times of the afternoons and making the most of the ratio of minutes and quality, in this sense we bring you nothing more and nothing less than 41 video games that you can complete completely in an afternoon, jewels in which you invest less than six hours and, despite this, leave completely enchanted.

'Abzu' Available in PC, PS4, Xbox One

'Abzu' immerses us in an oceanic journey in search of the secrets that hide in their depths. The game is not going to be a challenge or have you stuck to the screen for more than two hours.


With 'Chuchel' with a format halfway between the puzzle and the graphic adventure that turned out to be equally delicious and endearing.

'Gorogoa' Available in PC, iOS, Android

The visual level work of this magnificent puzzle game is incredible. 'Gorogoa' is undoubtedly one of the most important titles of the last batch of indies.

'Grow Home' Available on PC, PS4, Xbox One

From Ubisoft, 'Grow Home' is a game that invites us to climb worlds plagued by plants while we pollinate them and make everything grow. Besides being fun, it is also very beautiful.

'Her Story' Available on PC, iOS, Android

It seems more like a visual novel than a videogame, which deals with a history of police interviews, but the process of discovering what lies behind 'Her Story' is so powerful that it is inevitable to call it the best detective game.

'Journey' Available on PS4, PS3

'Journey' is like Lost, where what really matters is the way, and here it is full of unforgettable moments.

'Minit' Available on PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One

'Minit' has achieved is a gem. Here the proposal is to overcome the adventure in just 60 seconds, but in different phases and opening shortcuts in each attempt that allow us to overcome this challenge.

'Monument Valley' Available on iOS, Android

'Monument Valley' is one of the mobile games that the public has liked the most, an adventure in which, based on puzzles, we will go through beautiful levels based on Escher's staircases. 'Monument Valley' is one of those games that you have to play to understand how much you can do a lot with very little.

'Pony Island' Available in PC

'Pony Island' A game about ponies with an entrance to the underworld, but the grace will not be in the animals, but in how we will hack the game to be able to reach the end and get out alive from its curse.

'Superhot' Available on PC, PS4, Xbox One

If you are used to those action games where you kill right and sinister rambo style of your alone against the rest of the world. With 'Superhot' sure is your game, a title where you can do that as if it were a puzzle and feel the same John Wick in the process.

'That Dragon, Cancer' Available in PC, iOS

'That Dragon, Cancer' is a hard game, but both the adventure and the documentary of its development.

'What Remains of Edith Finch' Available on PC, PS4, Xbox One

'What Remains of Edith Finch' tells the story of a family persecuted by death as we explore the house where each of the members have grown up and relive the last minutes of each of them.

'Inside' Available on PC, PS4, Xbox One

In 'Inside' we control a child who seems to escape from the dangers of a totalitarian and dystopian society, but as we move forward, it seems that instead of fleeing, what we do is move closer and closer to the core of all problems.

'Kane & Lynch: Dog Days' Available on PC, PS3, Xbox 360

'Kane & Lynch: Dog Days' is a cult game for its action scenes, the harshness of its history and a "found footage" style shoulder camera that has ended up reaping a legion of fans.

'Layers of Fear' Available in PC, PS4, Xbox One

'Layers of Fear' is one of the best horror games, those that force you to play during the day. In it we put ourselves in the shoes of a failed painter who wants to paint a painting of his late wife. A pity that she does not seem so good idea and chase us for the rooms of the house that one day they shared.

'Little Nightmares' Available on PC, PS4, Xbox One

'Little Nightmares' Plataform and puzzles of decaffeinated difficulty for a game in which the visual ends up being everything. Disturbing as few, as soon as you have eating a rat as through a sea of ​​shoes, there are many more things that I invite you to play for you to discover.

'Portal' Available on PC, PS3, Xbox 360

'Portal' starts playing and do not look for anything else about it, you just need to know that it is a puzzle game in which a portal gun is its absolute protagonist.

'Stacking' Available on PC, PS3, Xbox 360

In 'Stacking' we handle a small Russian doll that wants to save her family and, for that, we will hide inside other bigger dolls to take advantage of her role and abilities when unlocking areas and overcoming puzzles.

'Call of Juarez: Gunslinger' Available on PC, PS3, Xbox 360

'Call of Juarez: Gunslinger' A story from the West based on shots and explosions in which the ability to slow down the time to shoot is just one of the many tricks you can end up pulling out of your sleeve if you improve the main character.

'Furi' Available in PC, PS4, Xbox One

'Furi' gets beyond his trial and error based on challenges bullet hell, parry, dash and espadazo, his aesthetic and soundtrack you enter through the eyes and ears with the strength of a locomotive. All an indie blessing.

'Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime' Available on PC, PS4, Xbox One

'Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime' is one of the original and fun proposals It is a cooperative action and shooting game for up to 4 players in which we move around a ship to control it. It can be played alone or with companions.

'Undertale' Available in PC, PSN

'Undertale' is the indie RPG par excellence, as well as one of the most awarded and acclaimed games of recent years. It is one of those games that you must enjoy to understand it. Do not back off your aesthetic, 'Undertale' hides much more than that in your gut.

'Unravel' Available in PC, PS4, Xbox One

'Unravel' is smart, funny and even enjoys a story that has touched the hearts of more than one.

'Vanquish' Available on PC, PS3, Xbox 360

'Vanquish' is frenzied in capitals, an option so funny that the only bad thing we can throw at it is having been short enough.

'Wolfenstein: The Old Blood' Available on PC, PS4, Xbox One

Undoubtedly one of those lessons of video game design in which, based on continuous shootings, it is possible to deliver a rhythm in which difficulty, fun and humor always go hand in hand. Other much shorter juices

'Klocki' Available in PC, iOS

'Klocki' is the typical game to pass the time of not being because inside you hide several mechanics that make him a little gem.

'Metal Slug' Available in PC, PSN, Xbox Live, iOS, Android, Switch

'Metal Slug' is an arcade that, due to its recent appearance on Nintendo Switch, can become the ideal pastime,

'Moirai' Available in PC

You are a farmer and you must find a woman who has disappeared in a mine. It will take you 15 minutes to get through the game.

'Monster Loves You!' Available in PC

14 different endings await you in this adventure in which the text is the most important first. by Wagner Mirabal