The Tenth Minute

The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat interactions and novel-style reading. You follow a revisited memory of an ordinary school day, piecing together missed moments, misunderstandings, closeness and belated understanding between three people. The complete story takes around 2 hours.

Chats and chapters

Chat is the core of progression: you receive messages, respond to conversations and move the story forward through the chat interface. The main story unfolds in a novel-style reader, with choices along the way. Some choices affect parts of the experience, but the story focuses less on finding an answer than on understanding what those moments meant after everything is over.

Memories and side stories

As you revisit the school-day memory, it gradually begins to feel out of place. Side stories and archive content unlock over time, adding details about the characters, their relationships and emotions left unspoken. The story explores memory, regret and hindsight, with a quiet undercurrent of unease.

Illustrations and music

The game includes dozens of illustrations, multiple video segments and one original theme song, alongside the text. You can also unlock archives, illustrations and video replay content. It is not built around heavy deduction or complex puzzle-solving, and is shaped as a restrained reading experience about youth and relationships.