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Top ratedthat last about a half-hour tagged Text based Page 4 (410 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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A game about a vampire plastic surgeon
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A system-based investigative adventure. Ludum Dare 50.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Text-based idle/clicker game
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
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Old windows themed horror game.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
You've been hired to slay a dragon. But don't worry, it's only as hard as you make it....
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Don't look up...
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Adventure
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Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
They say that some of the faerie folk can grant wishes...
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Vous surprenez une conversation suspecte… À vous d’écrire la suite.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Make your choice, but choose it well...
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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an office moving-in sim
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A short, eerie Japanese folktale
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A Capitalist Dystopian Escape Room
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Infiltrate a hostile network by entering the right passwords!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Purgatory as (semi) abandoned bird park
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A text-based home-crawler
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Who can you trust?
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Which will you choose: your beloved home country or the country you've been ordered to spy and destroy?
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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When they put you at the tail end of the train, they never predicted you'd be so good at violence...
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
A little robot on the brink of battery failure
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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The newest and most advanced OS in the globe as of today, March 22nd, 2005
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A murder-mystery game
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Puzzle
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A short innocent gender bender game
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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3d first person shooter drawn using nothing but ascii characters!
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
Yet another text-based roguelike game.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
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Create your gladiator and battle all the way to Colosseum Champion!
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Role Playing
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You arrive at Úrquel’s castle to rescue a princess. Things are almost, but not quite, what they seem.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
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Dark-humor social media management
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Simulation
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Narrative browser game, micro management in my Korean mother-in-law one room, Seoul, mars 2020.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
random event driven space journey to the new home
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The world's ending. Somehow you wound up volunteering at a support center. Your choices will only get weirder from here.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Let go.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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The game will eventually end. Feel free to pass the time.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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