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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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A story of love, death and lies.
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
Your journey begins in sand and sound and silence.
Interactive Fiction
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A procedurally generated, text-based fantasy RPG
Interactive Fiction
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text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.
Adventure
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Text-based space exploration game
Interactive Fiction
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Adventure
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Visual Novel
Fantasy visual novel in development
Visual Novel
A dark fantasy fiction game
Interactive Fiction
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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 modern text adventure for vintage computers
Interactive Fiction
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In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Interactive Fiction
A spooky short story/adventure game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, and modern web browsers
Adventure
A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
Visual Novel
What kind of fate will the heroine face after she relives the last seven days before her death?
Visual Novel
Event[0]
$19.99
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Adventure
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
Interactive Fiction
A bisexual high school ghost hunting romance
Interactive Fiction
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A love story that surpasses death
Interactive Fiction
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A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!
Visual Novel
A Danganronpa Fangame: A game of reflection, our guests facing the truth of themselves.
Visual Novel
Cozy fantasy game set on a floating island of Everbloom.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Do you have what it takes to be the BTC King? Challenge yourself in this semi-text based game!
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The world's less scary when you're a monster.
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Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
Visual Novel
forget who you are
Interactive Fiction
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Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.
Interactive Fiction
The dating sim where not everyone wants to date you.
Visual Novel
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Role Playing
An abandoned ship is found adrift. Look for clues and uncover the secrets of The Kuolema...
Interactive Fiction
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- A non conventional romance game. -
Visual Novel
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Adventure
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