Small games for odd moments.

Little phone games for the few spare minutes you didn't plan for: waiting on dinner, a long line, the couch. They work offline, need no account, and never pop up an ad in your face.

The games

Small Plates

A word game for one or two

Plate letters one at a time, serve words, and keep turning each one into the next course: TIN, TINE, TILE, TILED. Play alone, pass the phone back and forth, or take on the Daily Special.

  • Word game
  • 1 or 2 players
  • New Daily Special every day

Potting Bench

Keep real houseplants alive

Collect and care for twenty real houseplant species, each behaving the way it does in a real home. Learn light, water and roots by looking after them, a minute or two a day.

  • Plant care
  • 20 real species
  • Nothing ever dies

The house rules

  • Nothing pops upNo ads between rounds, nothing that makes you wait, nothing locked behind "watch an ad".
  • Plays offlineOn a plane, in a basement bar, anywhere the signal gives up.
  • No accountsOpen it and play. Your progress stays on your phone.
  • Short on purposeA game fits in the time it takes for the food to come out.

Dot Awkward started with two people, one phone and a lot of waiting for dinner. It's a one-person studio making the kind of games we actually play.

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Put a game on your home screen

iPhone or iPad

  1. Open the game in Safari.
  2. Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.

Android

  1. Open the game in Chrome.
  2. Tap ⋮, then Install app.

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