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Top rated$15 or less that last about a half-hour tagged Text based (27 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 · Sell your games that last about a half-hour on itch.io to have them show up here.

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Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
beautiful twine compilation
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Adventure
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Educational
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(82 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Role Playing
Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
S.O.R.S
£6.99
A sci-fi doctor simulation game
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Simulation
A small text-adventure survival game.
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Adventure
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
Explore your relationship with your best frined and discover a bit about yourself
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Много выборов, 5 концовок
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
a game about ghosts, Fate, and a very worried younger brother
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A young doctor enters the dream world to rescue the woman he loves
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Interactive royalty novel, with romance. Text based
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Can you discover you?
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Life's easier when it isn't your fault.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
oooh.ga
£1.99
Gather round... it's time to die.
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
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