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Top donatedthat last about an hour tagged Text based (56 results)

Explore games that last about an 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 an hour to itch.io to have them show up here.

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A Vast Error Story
Visual Novel
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Interactive Fiction
Will you make love and risk death?
Interactive Fiction
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
Role Playing
Play in browser
Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro
Interactive Fiction
a folktale made in Twine about a sentient public restroom and trans woman surviving in a magical city.
Interactive Fiction
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
Visual Novel
A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Role Playing
Play in browser
A free fantasy visual novel about magic, monsters, and more--download now!
Visual Novel
A slow, queer, post-war space opera
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
An interactive novella about finding your muse.
Interactive Fiction
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Role Playing
The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?
Interactive Fiction
ZZT/Super ZZT world player and editor
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Interactive Fiction
Save the liberal order as the head of the world's lender of last resort!
Simulation
An Audio & Text based horror game, set in total darkness. Will you survive?
Visual Novel
Wodehouse-esque text adventure
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Become a spy and try to unravel mysteries and save the world in this story driven puzzle and detective game
Puzzle
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Interactive Fiction
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Chat with AI chatbots of Anyboty you want privately.
Simulation
A trip back home turns into an impromptu murder mystery.
Visual Novel
A summer camp bird fighting text adventure
Interactive Fiction
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Will your devotion reach them? Does it matter?
Interactive Fiction
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An old school open world text-adventure rpg where you fight to gain better equipment in a fantasy setting.
Role Playing
Follow in this text adventure the horror of a war Veteran inside a Mental Asylum.
Adventure
A narrative adventure about gold, thoughts, and escaping the cycle.
Visual Novel
A short existentialist horror game
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
What do you desire? However odd or however wonderful, it can always come true.
Visual Novel
You and your sister get trapped in a VRMMO. Can you get out of it alive or will you die in it?
Interactive Fiction
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A girl leaves her childhood home hoping to find something better, but she can't seem to escape her roots.
Visual Novel
Play in browser
จมดิ่งลงสู่จิตใจที่ไม่มีที่สิ้นสุด
Interactive Fiction
near-future Sci-Fi roguelike and tactical squad game
Strategy
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Puzzly text adventure about wandering in the big city.
Puzzle
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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