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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 board & video game for Commodore
Adventure
It only takes one night to change everything.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
Play in browser
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Adventure
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
Simulation
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An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Adventure
A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Role Playing
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an exceptional day in archfield is a day when nothing happens. a twine adventure.
Interactive Fiction
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Spam has never been so deadly.
Visual Novel
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
Adventure
A narrative dungeon-crawler
Puzzle
Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
Interactive Fiction
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calamity occult-horror rpg
Role Playing
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Randomly generated dungeon filled with monsters and diablo inspired equipment looting system!
Role Playing
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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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alien civilization extinction simulator
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a game about trauma, triggers, and self-compassion
Simulation
Will you nuke the world to save it?
Interactive Fiction
The signs brought you here.
Visual Novel
Old windows themed horror game.
Interactive Fiction
Have you taken a personality quiz before?
A game of Industrial Injuries, Unions, and the Three Laws of Transmutation
Interactive Fiction
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Interactive Fiction
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Explore space in this retro inspired survival game
Survival
A romance that ended yesterday, 150 years ago.
Interactive Fiction
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Your ten years on the station are up. The Company sent a pair of clones to replace you-- and they've got a secret.
Interactive Fiction
Story in the far reaches of space and time.
Interactive Fiction
six short stories. you must eat to survive.
Play in browser
Text-based idle/clicker game
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