diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 57cfb9e46..9987460e4 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ tests =
     pytest-docker==0.10.3; python_version < '3.10' or sys_platform != 'win32'
     flaky==3.7.0
     mock==4.0.3
+    pytest-timeout==2.0.1
     rangehttpserver==1.2.0
     mock-ssh-server==0.9.1
     wget==3.2
diff --git a/tests/func/experiments/test_init.py b/tests/func/experiments/test_init.py
index e55e7d66d..f8a14e887 100644
--- a/tests/func/experiments/test_init.py
+++ b/tests/func/experiments/test_init.py
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ from dvc.main import main
 from dvc.repo.experiments.init import init
 from dvc.stage.exceptions import DuplicateStageName
 
+# the tests may hang on prompts on failure
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.timeout(1)
+
 
 def test_init_simple(tmp_dir, scm, dvc, capsys):
     tmp_dir.gen(