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I tried it and bounced off it a bit quick but I've been considering giving it another shot!

Blood Dungeon is a must play, from Messhof. Also Toem 2 is GREAT, and I highly recommend The Incident at Galley House (from the Roottrees team) for an excellent puzzle mystery.

The Mermaid Mask. played it while traveling and it was perfect for it. store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

I think RUBATO is one of the most criminally overlooked games of the year It’s final parts have such insane swings youtu.be/fY4pZovL1Uo?...

Too late I'm downloading Horse Magnifier

The best shorter indies I played on my switch 2 this year are - DenshAttack (for pure arcade fun) - Opus: Prism Peak (for a narrative adventure to get in your feels) - Mina the Hollower (for gameplay is king vibes) - Deltarune Chapter 5 (need I say more?)

I've gotten most* of these running on the Thor, but if the Deck is also an option. - The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish - Aerial_Knight's MrFreezy - KAZ - Forbidden Solitaire - Eternal Afternoon - Creature Kitchen - Mr. Sleepy Man Two around the ~10 hour mark - Love Eternal - Well Dweller

TR-49! Short, weird, excellent Despelote! Just about counts as this year, also short and excellent

Denshattack

Not out until next year, but "from the creator of Gwent" 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/4870080/...

If you are looking for something quick and breezing, check out Fire Emblem Fortunes Weave for the Nintendo Switch 2

Oh Demon! Fix my TV

Esoteric Ebb and Sovereign Tower!

Parking Garage Rally Circuit is a ton of fun.

Duskfade maybe?

Agent 64: Spies Never Die is a phenomenal ode to Goldeneye/Perfect Dark. Levels are short but can grow in length if you play on harder difficulties.

I Eat Paintings When Guards Aren't Looking

Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator is a really fun game that I've not heard anyone at KF talk about yet. You operate a giant artillery cannon by calculating enemy locations from intel and then set the artillery correctly and fire. Can't speak to it's overall length because I'm still early though.

Normal Golf Game, nothing else

My mini-metroidvania precision platformer you guys mentioned on KFGD is only 1.5 hours long :) very weird and full of farts. PROTOTYPE JUAN on Steam. Would play great on your AYN Thor bsky.app/profile/mart...

Mesmalie, Mermaid Mask, Raider Kid and the Ruby Chest, EMUUROM, Hermit and Pig, Sovereign Tower. to name a few

Cairn is my top pick for GOTY so far. I'd say that will keep you busy if you're into great puzzling and climbing mechanics. It's similar to Jusant except with a more grounded narrative.

It's also on Switch 2 I just saw!!

Have you tried any of these? All good fun Titanium court Alabaster Dawn Huntdown Overtime

Opus is SO good, as is The Mermaid Mask! And if you're in a jrpg mood, Hermit and Pig is terrific!

Your first Godot game’s 38 MB Windows ZIP fits our current desktop cap. Would you consider an optional NextGenRunGames listing? You keep ownership and choose destinations: www.nextgenrungames.com?utm_source=b...

I didn't particularly like the character they start you with, so I almost put it down. Once I unlocked another guy, I was hooked. The way they've combined climbing with traditional platforming broke my brain in a fabulous way.

Forever Ago. 😉

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seconding this. look outside was one of the best games of 2025 and it got painfully overlooked.

Would easily run on AYN thor as well!

Looked through my list and these two Little Weirds jumped out at me: Demon Tides- fantastic indie platformer that can be picked at 5-10 minutes at a time. Black Jacket- Blackjack themed rogue game that eschews some of the depth of Balatro to replace it with a surprisingly compelling story.

Hermit and Pig, or Creature Kitchen

Minishoot’ Adventures on the Switch 2 completely overlooked by so many. Its a legend of zelda shmup. Other good ones are ball x pit, moonlighter 2, and fast fusion.

The main ones i'm thinking of from this year have a lot of replay value or staying power so they aren't "short" (Torment Hexus, Titanium Court, Thousand Hells)...

I didn't think it's short but I was addicted to Sovereign Tower!

20 More Somehow Even Smaller Mazes. That’s the game. It’s free. store.steampowered.com/app/4428890/...

Check out Tethergeist. From earlier this year. Loved it, it’s like Celeste.

Oh it’s got the weirds! But I see what you mean as far as genre.

Silver Pines just came out and has good reviews. Looking forward to that on my Switch 2 at some point.

Have you finished Titanium Court yet? Plays great on the Thor!

You were talking about loving racing games earlier store.steampowered.com/app/2737300/...

Sprawl Zero for the PS2/Xbox FPS inspiration

Sovereign Tower is a genuine GOTY contender for me and I mainly play AAA games

Not necessarily short (both less than 20 hrs), but both People of Note and Kingdoms of the Dump are great RPGs that have solid stories and twists on combat to keep the player engaged for the full playthrough. Both played perfectly on the deck.

Emuurom is a "metroidbrania" puzzle platformer game where you crash land on a planet and have to scan everything around you to learn/navigate the map. Everything is Crab is an evolution-based action roguelike where you choose animal features to become the fittest you can and survive

I know you aren’t big into Metroidvanias but Well Dweller is a short a fun time.

I know you don’t do a lot of mobile stuff but Poinpy is maybe one of the best controlled touch screen games since angry birds. Very bite sized.

Running the Steam version of Vampire Crawlers on my Thor was a great experience.

Love Eternal, 3-4 hour precision platform crossed with psychological horror. Some of the platforming is quite hard so it could be longer or shorter depending on how much you do or don’t get stuck.

and you can beat it in a couple of hours