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New & popular freethat last about a half-hour tagged Text based (723 results)

Explore games that last about a half-hour 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 about a half-hour to itch.io to have them show up here.

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You're a prisoner of the jaguar empire, marked for sacrifice. Escape, explore, and survive in this text-based roguelike.
Interactive Fiction
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Adventure
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A interactive text based simulator
Educational
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Coleridge in hypertext
Interactive Fiction
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Once upon a time,
Visual Novel
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a text-adventure game in which you must discover the secrets hidden beneath your childhood home
Interactive Fiction
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A roguelike dungeon crawler with authentic ASCII graphics
Role Playing
Interactive Fiction
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Help Santa Claus deliver gifts around your town.
Simulation
A goofy little infinite, text rogue dungeon crawl with idle game elements.
Adventure
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A wayward knight is charged with a dangerous task.
Role Playing
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Experience the interactive sci-fi novel with an amazing soundtrack!
Interactive Fiction
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Truffles. Herbs. Onions. Forbidden Magic?!
Strategy
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Time is money. How are you gonna spend it?
Interactive Fiction
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A simple text adventure about surviving the wasteland
Survival
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Uncover the secrets hidden on an abandoned computer.
Interactive Fiction
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It's your turn to vet the corruption stockpiles. How will you do?
Simulation
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive fiction
Adventure
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DEMO ✦ Death opens doors. Perhaps some should stay closed.
Interactive Fiction
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An exciting, fast-paced typing game that infuses skill-building with refreshing, lemonade-themed challenges!
Simulation
What is this all for?
Role Playing
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Un viaje de paisajes sin horizonte
Interactive Fiction
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Goblin King is a kingdom simulator where the player takes on the role of a hero or a villain.
Role Playing
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Join Spermson, the elite soldier, on a wild journey through the female reproductive system!
Interactive Fiction
Assembles a team to revitalize a grocery store in crisis due to previous mismanagement.
Interactive Fiction
Earth has gone rogue. Can you survive?
Survival
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Before you feed your dog, you have to find him.
Interactive Fiction
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Even in sleep, the grief never fades. An interactive story.
Interactive Fiction
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A text based halloween adventure game!
Adventure
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Um jogo de aventura no Dia das Bruxas, totalmente em texto!
Adventure
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We're all just dots on a screen.
Interactive Fiction
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The overcomplicated Text Roguelike
Role Playing
University of Tulsa CSG 1003: Game Design Challenge 02
Adventure
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