Skip to main content

Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines

Top selling paidthat last about a half-hour tagged Text based (41 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 · Sell your games that last about a half-hour on itch.io to have them show up here.

New itch.io is now on YouTube!

Subscribe for game recommendations, clips, and more

Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
Turn based roguelike with resource management on a ship
Strategy
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Visual Novel
S.O.R.S
£6.99
A sci-fi doctor simulation game
Simulation
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Interactive Fiction
Can you discover you?
Interactive Fiction
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Role Playing
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Adventure
Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
Interactive Fiction
Interactive royalty novel, with romance. Text based
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Simulation
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Interactive Fiction
A small text-adventure survival game.
Adventure
Do anything. You choose the journey.
Visual Novel
Join a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. Explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out!
Visual Novel
Text Wormhole is a dodge game of bullet hell generated by the roguelike way dynamically based on the theme of letters
Action
A full-scale retro JRPG with ambitious textmode graphics [Now available!]
Role Playing
A choose your own adventure game, featuring a fluffy boy
Interactive Fiction
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
Interactive Fiction
A Choose Your Own Adventure Style text-based horror game
Interactive Fiction
A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Visual Novel
Play in browser
A young doctor enters the dream world to rescue the woman he loves
Interactive Fiction
Explore your relationship with your best frined and discover a bit about yourself
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Много выборов, 5 концовок
Interactive Fiction
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
Adventure
A text-based fairy tale.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
Life's easier when it isn't your fault.
Interactive Fiction
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Role Playing
A text-mode adventure for your Rainbow 100 (and other inferior platforms)!
Adventure
Loading more games...
itch.io now on YouTube!