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Explore games that last a few hours tagged Text based on itch.io. Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great a · Upload your games that last a few hours to itch.io to have them show up here.

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Your journey begins in sand and sound and silence.
Interactive Fiction
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16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.
Visual Novel
Marked by complete magical immunity, Wayfarers wander the world, fighting magic. Where will your fate lead you?
Interactive Fiction
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10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Visual Novel
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
Visual Novel
text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.
Adventure
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A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Visual Novel
A love story that surpasses death
Interactive Fiction
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Fantasy visual novel in development
Visual Novel
Survive as an immortal cultivator in a text-based life-simulation RPG set in Chinese Cultivation Fantasy world.
Role Playing
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A procedurally generated, text-based fantasy RPG
Interactive Fiction
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Bisexual teen ghost hunting romance
Interactive Fiction
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A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
Visual Novel
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
Interactive Fiction
Do you have what it takes to be the BTC King? Challenge yourself in this semi-text based game!
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A dark fantasy fiction game
Interactive Fiction
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A Danganronpa Fangame: A game of reflection, our guests facing the truth of themselves.
Visual Novel
A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!
Visual Novel
A spooky short story/adventure game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, and modern web browsers
Adventure
forget who you are
Interactive Fiction
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A text adventure set in a steampunk Italy in 1904
Interactive Fiction
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Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.
Interactive Fiction
The world's less scary when you're a monster.
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An abandoned ship is found adrift. Look for clues and uncover the secrets of The Kuolema...
Interactive Fiction
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Cozy fantasy game set on a floating island of Everbloom.
Interactive Fiction
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Vee and Aiden live together in ‘The Den’, but tonight, a chance discovery is about to change their lives forever…
Interactive Fiction
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- A non conventional romance game. -
Visual Novel
Narrative game about the end of the world and a world that won't end.
Interactive Fiction
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Join Eliza. Decide Together.
Adventure
Fight in the Grand Galactic Tournament to get back your planet's stolen moon!
Interactive Fiction
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Lord of the Rings multiplayer text-based online game
Role Playing
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Your daughter wants to hear a bedtime story
Puzzle
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A spam filter and their fellow plugins get horribly entangled in the affairs of their human's friends
Interactive Fiction
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All is in silence... Too much silence...
Adventure
A Tiny Text Adventure Game
Interactive Fiction
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