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Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Top$15 or less from 2024 tagged Text based (46 results)

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Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Interactive Fiction
Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
Visual Novel
A winter themed otome game where you get to romance a jerky singer!
Visual Novel
Issue #49 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Hey there, welcome to the Echo of Mobius! Here, you’ll step into a world shaped by everyone’s wildest dreams.
Role Playing
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Puzzle
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Adventure
Issue #55 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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A resource management text game with a social issue, by Studio Gombo.
Simulation
A young girl has been kidnapped, you have two hours to find and free her.
Visual Novel
Help Santa Claus deliver gifts around your town.
Simulation
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary. Investigate appearance of “ghosts” and help residents.
Adventure
Aventura de texto de rol. Eres el mejor guerrero de tu tribu luchando por cumplir una misión en contra de tu voluntad.
Role Playing
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Role Playing
Life's easier when it isn't your fault.
Interactive Fiction
A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself.
Interactive Fiction
In The Protocol Directive, a dark room and deadly choices await. Uncover secrets, solve dilemmas, and escape alive.
3-Hour Non-Visual Novel
Visual Novel
Solve SCP mysteries in this ARG with cryptic online clues, riddles, and puzzles.
Adventure
Play in browser
Embark on a thrilling, tongue-in-cheek train heist in the style of classic dice-rolling RPGs.
Role Playing
An AI-Driven Interactive Fiction Engine
Interactive Fiction
A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Simulation
Text-based 4X with a focus on turf war and resource management.
Strategy
The Ultimate Digital Assistant for 1982 - from C.Tech Industries
Interactive Fiction
Become a detective and investigate mystery murders in this thriller story!
Puzzle
Do anything. You choose the journey.
Visual Novel
A new type of game in which you can clear many stages by controlling the robot with “WORDS"!
Strategy
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