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Top ratedthat last about a half-hour tagged Text based Page 8 (415 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 text-based, psychological walking simulator.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
A wordsy GameJamDOR 7 entry written in I7
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Immersive horror text adventure.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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a text-based game for people who are afraid to fall in love.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
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A project about nonverbal communication, meant to be educational/informative.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Educational
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Interactive fiction
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
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Two lesbians on a date. Normal right?
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
You're a prisoner of the jaguar empire, marked for sacrifice. Escape, explore, and survive in this text-based roguelike.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A quick IF game about the exploration of a dying ship and yourself.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A simple text adventure about surviving the wasteland
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Survival
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Fantasy based, political Interactive fiction.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A kidnapped woman discovers she's in a simulation where her choices have global implications. Text based.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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No one is capable of defeating your own demons, not even you.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
a text-adventure game in which you must discover the secrets hidden beneath your childhood home
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Prepare the perfect birthday in this short visual novel!
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Simulation
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a 498 words text adventure
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Explore a mysterious dead city.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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An Unsubtle Satire for an Unsubtle Time
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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an exceptional day in archfield is a day when nothing happens. a twine adventure.
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A short, lightly comedic text adventure with first person controls.
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
a twisted, tangled fairy tale
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
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Escape with your sister or your life?
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Rated 2.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
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You are lost. Is there a way to go back home, or will you perish in the forest?
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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an action packed science-fiction interactive story
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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It's 2122, and you're a billion miles away from home.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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The sun has died. You have been seduced to Edinburgh below the Stair. But at what price?
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
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A first date (gone wrong)
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Interactive royalty novel, with romance. Text based
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Incremental style food management game
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Simulation
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The gods are extremely angry! Can you, the king of a vaguely Sumerian/Akkadian city state, appease them?
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Strategy
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Expand your kingdom and make it prosper, or just enjoy a luxurious lifestyle while your peasants starve to death.
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Strategy
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Caught in the static, you have forgotten. Find your way back.
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
A horror text adventure.
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
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How will a group of students react to the death of their friend. Will Roxy come back to life, or is it all over for her?
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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