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Topthat last about a half-hour tagged Text based (971 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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Try to survive and perhaps eventually even tame an unknown planet in this incremental semi-idle game.
Survival
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Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+
Interactive Fiction
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A terminal-based sci-fi mystery
Puzzle
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Interactive Fiction
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You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Interactive Fiction
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Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
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A brutally challenging Puzzle Novel RPG with multiple endings
Puzzle
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1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
Cut the Heavens - A grimdark fantasy Interactive Fiction
Interactive Fiction
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The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Interactive Fiction
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tales of the pre-apocalypse
Interactive Fiction
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Can a gay disaster find love on the high seas?
Interactive Fiction
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An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Interactive Fiction
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Randomly generated dungeon filled with monsters and diablo inspired equipment looting system!
Role Playing
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It only takes one night to change everything.
Interactive Fiction
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A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
Visual Novel
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
Adventure
What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!
Puzzle
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Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Interactive Fiction
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Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
calamity occult-horror rpg
Role Playing
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The Social Deduction Multiplayer Hacking Game
Role Playing
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an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Interactive Fiction
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Spam has never been so deadly.
Visual Novel
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
Adventure
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
Simulation
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Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
Interactive Fiction
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A Twine story of bugs and bodies.
Interactive Fiction
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A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Adventure
DEMO ✦ Death opens doors. Perhaps some should stay closed.
Interactive Fiction
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i always wanted a text(simple) cultivation game but could never find it so i made my own :)
Role Playing
Will you nuke the world to save it?
Interactive Fiction
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Simulation
A short story told through boating and lost letters
Adventure
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Narrative roguelike with tokens
Interactive Fiction
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