Latest$15 or less that last about a half-hour tagged Text based (44 results)
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A choose your own adventure game, featuring a fluffy boy
Interactive Fiction
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Role Playing
Interactive royalty novel, with romance. Text based
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Choose Your Own Adventure Style text-based horror game
Interactive Fiction
Escape from Norwood
$5.99
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Adventure
a game about ghosts, Fate, and a very worried younger brother
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Whispers in the Moss
$4.99
A full-scale retro JRPG with ambitious textmode graphics [Now available!]
Role Playing
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Interactive Fiction
The Lurking Shadow
$1.99
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
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A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Visual Novel
A young doctor enters the dream world to rescue the woman he loves
Interactive Fiction
Explore the world around you, attack the enemys attacking you, find your memorys.
Role Playing
A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Visual Novel
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
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