Top$15 or less that last about a half-hour tagged Text based (44 results)
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Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Interactive Fiction
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Interactive Fiction
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Role Playing
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Interactive Fiction
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Adventure
A young doctor enters the dream world to rescue the woman he loves
Interactive Fiction
a game about ghosts, Fate, and a very worried younger brother
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
Interactive Fiction
Explore your relationship with your best frined and discover a bit about yourself
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Join a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. Explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out!
Visual Novel
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
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