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that last about a half-hour tagged Text based (696 results)

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Pick & Poke
Narrative roguelike with tokens
Christophe Coyard
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
if not us
$7
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Trigaea
Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+
RynGM
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Witch's Word
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
RainbowStarbird
Simulation
Play in browser
The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Interactive Fiction
Social Democracy: An Alternate History
You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Fallacy Quiz
$5
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Educational
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery
Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
Tom McHenry
Play in browser
A Red Boat
A short story told through boating and lost letters
PirxOS
Adventure
Play in browser
Esper: Fugitive
A dystopian urban fantasy interactive fiction game
petrichor
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
BOAT PROM
A boat-themed gay teen love story
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Vast Trivia Of The Void
What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!
Whales And Games
Puzzle
Play in browser
WAS/WERE
$4
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Interactive Fiction
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Visual Novel
Untrusted - Web of Cybercrime
The Social Deduction Multiplayer Hacking Game
evolvedlabs
Role Playing
Play in browser
Family Dinner
It only takes one night to change everything.
pansandpots
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dungeon Crawler on Demand!
Randomly generated dungeon filled with monsters and diablo inspired equipment looting system!
redpangilinan
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Adventure
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
The Archivist and the Revolution
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
Gender Dysphoria
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
exodrifter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Role Playing
Play in browser
VANGUARD
will you rebel tradition?
Jaye
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Role Playing
Play in browser
Pageant
An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Survival
Waybinder
A city bound by ritual to prosper — or so it was hoped...
Gemma Thomson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
The good people
Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Escape from Kettuloch
Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
SnepShark
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
GIF
Blackout: The Darkest Night
$5.99
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
MiniChimera
Interactive Fiction
Sepia Tears
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Scarlet String Studios
Visual Novel
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