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Explore games that last a few minutes 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 a few minutes to itch.io to have them show up here.

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Text Adventure Game inspired by Cask of Amontillado
Adventure
Christmas short pick your path story
Interactive Fiction
295 words about faulty keyboards and absent mouse pads.
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A short poetry game about ancestral memory.
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the rise and fall of Caius Cassius
Role Playing
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text-based multiple choice adventure
Adventure
A jailbreak experiment.
Interactive Fiction
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There’s a new yoga studio in town, and it’s weird.
Interactive Fiction
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countless possibilities, one terrible reality
Interactive Fiction
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You find a metal rabbit in the snow.
Interactive Fiction
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You've fallen into a hole...
Adventure
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You find yourself in a mysterious factory where you must strive to fulfil your own goals whilst trying to survive.
Role Playing
A Text based survival game based around Gods Will Be Watching.
Strategy
You'll be questioned until you break.
Interactive Fiction
(May) Help Brick collect items to save the day.
Adventure
Another Twine game about gender issues
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Multiple beginnings but one ending. A small branching narrative about three women.
Role Playing
A dream, a story, a confession.
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An in-development first person/text adventure hybrid set in a fantasy world.
Adventure
a larval, experimental text-based "strategy" game
Simulation
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How a superheroine earns a living wage
Visual Novel
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A minimalist choose-your-own adventure story about two brothers who have grown apart.
Interactive Fiction
A film noir style audio-visual novella.
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The social simulation you'll be playing for minutes!
Simulation
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Come down to the beach for a short illustrated text adventure, what kind of castle will you rule over?
Adventure
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Textual adventure made for the Ludum Dare 33 "You Are The Monster"
Adventure
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A short, text oriented exploration experience with first person mouselook controls.
Adventure
A party game about dividing an inheritance.
Who knew there could be two kings to one castle?
Adventure
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3am
$1
Enjoy a relaxing cup of tea.
A Chatroom Thriller
Interactive Fiction
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You have to finish your art project.
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very best sushies qualities #best #quality #bestquality
Simulation
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Dadaist Haiku Generator
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A text-based "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" about a mysterious plant.
Adventure
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