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Latestthat last a few hours tagged Text based (134 results)

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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Visual Novel
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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Your journey begins in sand and sound and silence.
Interactive Fiction
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An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Adventure
Lord of the Rings multiplayer text-based online game
Role Playing
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Cozy fantasy game set on a floating island of Everbloom.
Interactive Fiction
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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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Visual Novel
text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.
Adventure
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Interactive Fiction
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
Visual Novel
Tradução para Português do Brasil do jogo italiano Avventura nel Castelo por Alquimistas da Localização
Interactive Fiction
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It's all about money
Survival
Amidst fading hope, one sword whispers of victory. Will you heed its call?
Interactive Fiction
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It's all about money
Survival
Join a scientific study, compete in games, and avoid the manipulation of others before things take a turn for the worse.
Visual Novel
Many revelations will be realized as Roxanne's year the the crew comes to an end in the finale of this episodic trilogy.
Visual Novel
The encounter of two Lonely Souls meant to find each other. Where will your choices lead you?
Interactive Fiction
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"Sumérgete en un mundo de misterio y desentraña la verdad en esta apasionante novela visual de detectives."
Visual Novel
A cheap Bitlife rip-off
Survival
A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.
Interactive Fiction
An Our Flag Means Death text-based adventure game.
Interactive Fiction
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One morning, when P. woke from peaceful dreams, he found himself in his bed – still his old self.
Interactive Fiction
The dating sim where not everyone wants to date you.
Visual Novel
A dark fantasy fiction game
Interactive Fiction
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Your daughter wants to hear a bedtime story
Puzzle
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Narrative game about the end of the world and a world that won't end.
Interactive Fiction
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A NovelAI interactive storybook.
Interactive Fiction
An Adventure
Interactive Fiction
a text-based fishing game
Interactive Fiction
small town parasocial crime drama
Interactive Fiction
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An interstellar multiplayer game of War and Peace.
Strategy
A thief on the run finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely AI finds unexpected company.
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
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