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XU S.A Studio · Published by XU S.A Studio
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Last updated 28 Sept 2026
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
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Adventure, Indie, Casual · 2026 · More under £5 games
About this game
Years later, what returns first is rarely the answer.
Not the truth, not the conclusion, but the light of a certain day, a gust of wind, a sentence left unfinished, and the look in someone’s eyes when they turned back.
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat interactions and novel-style reading. Through chat threads and a story reader, you will gradually step into a memory that keeps being revisited, piecing together the missed moments, misunderstandings, closeness, and belated understanding between three people beneath the surface of an ordinary school life.
In this game, you will:
Read a complete short story of around 2 hours
Progress through chat conversations, choices, and novel-style chapters
Revisit a school-day memory that gradually begins to feel out of place
Unlock side stories, archives, illustrations, and video replay content
Follow a quiet story about memory, regret, and belated understanding
Chat is the core of progression. You will receive messages, respond to conversations, and move the story forward through the chat interface. The main story unfolds in a novel-style reader, while side stories and archive content gradually unlock along the way, filling in the characters, their relationships, and the emotions that were never fully spoken aloud.
Beyond chat interaction and reading, the game also includes a wide range of illustrations, video segments, and original music. Dozens of illustrations, multiple video segments, and one original theme song work together with the text to create a fuller emotional and narrative experience, so the story extends beyond reading alone.
This is not a game built around heavy deduction or complex puzzle-solving. It is closer to a concentrated, restrained reading experience shaped by youth, relationships, memory, and hindsight, with a steady undercurrent of quiet unease. Some choices will affect parts of the experience, but the story is less about “finding the answer” than about understanding, after everything is already over, what those moments really meant.
The full experience takes around 2 hours, making The Tenth Minute well suited for players who enjoy short narrative games, chat-based storytelling, novel-style reading, and stories with youthful emotion and light psychological mystery.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10, 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
- Memory: 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible integrated graphics
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: Windows-compatible audio device
- VR Support: Not supported
- Additional Notes: 64-bit processor and operating system required.
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 / Windows 11, 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5 or equivalent
- Memory: 4096 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible graphics
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: Windows-compatible audio device
- VR Support: Not supported
- Additional Notes: 64-bit processor and operating system required. Headphones recommended.
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Latest news
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The Tenth Minute is now available
The Tenth Minute is now available on Steam.This is a reading-focused interactive novel told through story and chat. As you read the main story and exchange messages with the characters, you will gradually uncover what once happened between Xu Ning, Lin Jianlan, and Mu Yuchuan.It is not built around fast-paced gameplay, heavy puzzle-solving, or a large number of branching routes. It is closer to a short story that you can read slowly. It is a story about youth, memory, regret, and the people who remain in your heart years later.If you enjoy quiet, restrained text-driven works with a touch of mystery and lingering emotion, we hope The Tenth Minute can stay with you for a calm evening.Thank you to everyone who chooses to open this story.Some stories stay with you. Some people, too.Read full article on Community Announcements (deadangel2010)AnnouncementsOfficial
Theme Song “言えないままで” Is Now Available
The theme song for The Tenth Minute, “言えないままで”, is now officially available.This is a song about the words that were never quite spoken.Some feelings do not disappear. Some words are simply left behind at the wrong moment, waiting until much later to become something that can finally be heard.“言えないままで” reflects one of the central emotions of The Tenth Minute: affection, hesitation, regret, and tenderness that remain quietly unspoken.The song is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, TikTok, Instagram music libraries, and other streaming platforms.Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4fp05SrjNEGwFiQR80KeWh?si=312bd8a0c753421dThank you for following The Tenth Minute. If the song resonates with you, please consider adding the game to your wishlist.Read full article on Community Announcements (deadangel2010)AnnouncementsOfficial
The Tenth Minute is Coming Soon
The Tenth Minute is now live on Steam and available to wishlist.This is a short narrative game told through chat interactions and novel-style reading. Follow a story about unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people.The full experience takes around 2 hours and includes chat-based progression, novel-style reading, illustrations, video segments, original music, side stories, archives, Steam achievements, and Steam Cloud support.The game is scheduled to release on June 18, 2026.Thank you for visiting the Steam page. If the story interests you, please consider adding The Tenth Minute to your wishlist.Read full article on Community Announcements (deadangel2010)
