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Explore games that last about an hour in development 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 an hour in development to itch.io to have them show up here.

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Text-based open world roguelike

Interactive Fiction

A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure

BrianIsCreative

Role Playing

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Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro

Interactive Fiction

$2.99

Explore a haunted theater with a gruesome past and go INSIDE several black-and-white films!

Unimatrix Productions

Visual Novel

Rap God - Rapper Simulator

2€

Rap Career Simulator

Simulation

Love Exalt 8372

$9.99

A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train

Visual Novel

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Superlunary Episode 1.0

A slow, queer, post-war space opera

communistsister

Interactive Fiction

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An interactive novella about finding your muse.

Interactive Fiction

ZZT/Super ZZT world player and editor

Chat with AI chatbots of Anyboty you want privately.

Simulation

An old school open world text-adventure rpg where you fight to gain better equipment in a fantasy setting.

Allure of the Stars

near-future Sci-Fi roguelike and tactical squad game

Strategy

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The Hundredth Floor

You and your sister get trapped in a VRMMO. Can you get out of it alive or will you die in it?

Interactive Fiction

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An original story set in a post-apocalyptic world of isolation, disease, and decay.

Adventure

Sekishu no Koe (Text-Only Prototype)

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Interactive Fiction

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Love & Friendship

A Regency Rom-Com

Interactive Fiction

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