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Explore games for Windows that last a few hours 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 for Windows that last a few hours to itch.io to have them show up here.

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One Thousand Acts of Decency

Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer

Visual Novel

forget who you are

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.

Interactive Fiction

An unflinching work of interactive fiction.

Interactive Fiction

MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate

A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.

Foolish Mortals

Visual Novel

Beau Ideals Chapter 1

Fantasy visual novel in development

Visual Novel

A Colour Like No Other

The world's less scary when you're a monster.

Play in browser

The Delusion Dilemna

You are trapped in a maze of dreams, and must determine what is real

Adventure

Tyrant - A Twist of Fate

Today marks the day fate is changed, your actions shape the world.

Adventure

The first Text-Based Game you can make real money from.

Gonzalo Muradas

Strategy

A console-based & systemic escape room

Silverfisk Games

Interactive Fiction

Chill out in a small text-based space. Craft, Destroy, Farm and Build.

Adventure

Don't Give Up On Me!

A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!

Stefannofornari Games

Visual Novel

Follow 4 protagonists and celebrate 420 - where local dealers adapt to legalization, and good times keep on rolling

Visual Novel

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