---
title: One-sentence game ideas
credits: XPUB
contents:
    - pic: one-sentence-game-ideas.jpg
      
    - |-
        You are in an empty 
        room with 13 doors 
        that are portals 
        to 13 different worlds.
    - |-
        5 min 
        slow-motion epidemics, 
        visually transmitted.
    - |-
        Every crisis 
        is a simulation 
        of another crisis.
    - |-
        Every crisis 
        is a preparation 
        for another crisis.
    - You receive a point for each floating tile you encounter on the street.
    - |-
        You sleep and
        the more you sleep,
        the more the buildings
        around the bedroom
        collapse and nature
        starts growing and
        invading the space.
    - |-
        ThermoSTATE
        the state where no citizen feels cold. 🥵
    - The same day is looping over and over. The goal is to figure out which decision will make you move on to the next day.
    - A flat with no floors.
    - |-
        Hello, 
        where are you, 
        what can you see 
        from there?
    - You give someone a gift. They give the gift to someone else.
    - "You meet a person in a corridor, but you're in a supermarket, in Canada."
    - |-
        Collect fantasy words 
        in a fantasy world 
        by talking to other fantasy characters 
        so you can describe fantasy objects better.
    - |-
        ...and yes...
        only give 
        a positive answer 
        (or inflexion) 
        to any question.
    - |-
        A city room 
        without gravity.
    - |-
        Thank you! 
        No, I thank you! 
        Noo, I thank YOU! 
        No. I really thank you. 
        No, I THANK you!
    - |-
        You get up and you're 
        a dictator for 5 min.
    - |-
        You get up and you're 
        a dictator for 5 min 
        and if you don't change anything in the current status quo you die.
    - You have a lethal laugh.
    - |-
        You are late. 
        You have to leave 
        but you start 
        playing a game.
    - You change language and you discover how clever you are but you cannot communicate with others anymore.
    - You are in an empty room with 13 doors that are portals to 13 similar worlds, only your character changes.
    - |-
        Plastic bag on a 
        windy day at the 
        market simulator.
    - |-
        Reality show 
        for cultural workers.
    - A portal will take you to the exact opposite spot on the globe.
    - You dive into an ocean without an ocean floor but it's actually the sky.
    - |-
        A bruschetta 
        and some tomato sauce,
        but you're not in Italy.
    - "You're a flock of birds. You interact with things only collectively."
    - "You're in a layer of a multilayered world. You cannot see the effect of your actions unless you change the layer."
    - |-
        Any action 
        could potentially kill 
        the other players 
        (including staying still). 
        The longer all the players are kept alive the more you score.
    - |-
        Dutch wind 
        vs. 
        Human being
    - |-
        Interpret what birds 
        are saying.
    - |-
        A game where your 
        real-life issues are solved through playing and you don't realise 
        it's happening.
    - |-
        Sometimes things change depending 
        on who you tell.
    - |-
                          🎈




        You are a helium balloon
        and you just got 
        to the big city.
    - |-
        You are stuck in reality and you're trying to get back to your imaginary world but cannot 
        find the door.
    - |-
        Build the highest high 
        heels in the world so 
        you can traverse the 
        Mariana Trench, with a 
        depth of 11 034 m, 
        without touching 
        the water.
    - |-
        It's night with rain 
        and Devil Dutch Wind
        (DDW) and you are 
        trying to ride your
        way home.
    - |-
        The calories burned while running on the treadmill become 
        actual currency.
    - |-
        Files keep coming in
        and you have to
        sort them in your
        folder system.
    - |-
        You get to experience your whole life 
        in reverse.
    - |-
        There is no gravity, 
        no left or right, 
        no up and down, 
        but you have to guide 
        someone to a treasure.
    - |-
        Life's a game, 
        play the game.
    - "You're a door and you have the power to open or close as you wish. Sometimes someone tries to go through you, will you let them pass?"
    - You enter a room full of obscure items and have to select some of them to curate an exhibition.
    - |-
        Time is given 
        to each player.
    - |-
        During the game, several tasks are given to players, and they need to split their time and accomplish those tasks in the time allocated. If you fail to do so, it will affect the whole time sequence. In short, you play 
        the game by splitting your 
        time, rearranging your 
        priority constantly.
    - Git commit-push battle.
    - |-
        Noise-inducing
        headphones so you
        can hear the electronic
        magnetic fields 
        around you.
    - Harmonizing everything.
    - |-
        The printer that works
        is hidden somewhere
        in a maze.
    - Do you want me to tell you the story of Wendy?
    - |-
        You enter a room 
        where you meet your 
        friends with whom 
        you play a game where 
        you play a game, where 
        you play a game, where 
        you play a game.
    - |-
        The rain starts 
        when the meeting stops.
    - |-
        The rain stops 
        when the meeting starts.
    - Print 80000 post-its.
    - Guess the Guests.
    - |-
        Try to eat the hole 
        of a donut.
    - |-
        Try to find out whether
        the donut hole which
        was expired was
        any good.
    - |-
        Each chatroom is 
        a different reality.
    - |-
        A random age 
        generator that 
        gives you 
        a random age 
        on your birthday 
        and your body 
        turns that age.
    - |-
        A random ape 
        generator that
        gives you 
        a random ape 
        on your birthday 
        and your body 
        turns that ape.
    - |-
        A random grape 
        generator that 
        gives you 
        a random grape 
        on your birthday 
        and your body 
        turns that wine.
    - |-
        A random wine 
        generator that
        gives you 
        a random headache 
        on your birthday 
        and your body 
        turns that wine.
    - |-
        A random-random 
        generator that
        gives you 
        a random-random 
        on your birthday 
        and your body 
        turns that random.
    - |-
        The world is literally turned upside down 
        and you must try 
        to cure a hickup!
    - Randominance.
    - |-
        Steal Jeff Bezos's
        money and use it 
        for the loot box.
    - |-
        Sushi but
        it tastes
        like cola.
    - |-
        Cola but 
        it tastes
        like sushi.
    - |-
        Your manager reminds
        you of Michael Scott
        and you feel like you
        are part of the Office.
    - |-
        Grocery.
        Delivery. 
        Startup.
    - A one-sentence games list that never ends...
    - |-
        Inspired by Pippin 
        Barr's Game Ideas 🛴 
        www.pippinbarr.com
        /category
        /game-ideas
---
