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Top sellingthat last about a half-hour tagged Text based (152 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 playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Visual Novel
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A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Role Playing
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A goofy little infinite, text rogue dungeon crawl with idle game elements.
Adventure
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Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
Visual Novel
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Simulation
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Interactive Fiction
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Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
Play in browser
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Adventure
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
Simulation
Play in browser
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Adventure
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Visual Novel
S.O.R.S
£6.99
A sci-fi doctor simulation game
Simulation
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Interactive Fiction
A board & video game for Commodore
Adventure
It only takes one night to change everything.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
Adventure
an exceptional day in archfield is a day when nothing happens. a twine adventure.
Interactive Fiction
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Can you discover you?
Interactive Fiction
Spam has never been so deadly.
Visual Novel
Will you nuke the world to save it?
Interactive Fiction
Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Randomly generated dungeon filled with monsters and diablo inspired equipment looting system!
Role Playing
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A narrative dungeon-crawler
Puzzle
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Adventure
calamity occult-horror rpg
Role Playing
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Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Role Playing
Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
Interactive Fiction
A story about getting everything you ever wanted and what comes next.
Interactive Fiction
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
Role Playing
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A short story told through boating and lost letters
Adventure
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