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Top rated$15 or less in game jams tagged Text based (25 results)

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A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(142 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
SCREAMFEAST
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Text-based space exploration game
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(82 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Born
$3.33
today we are God and we create from our own image.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
S.O.R.S
£6.99
A sci-fi doctor simulation game
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Simulation
A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
a sweet story
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Text Adventure Game inspired by Cask of Amontillado
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
A nonfiction essay etched into the architecture of a virtual space.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Easy to understand mini game using coordinates!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
A single script, text-only roguelike set in the unknowable in-between of Australia
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
A game about navigating the depressing and absurd world of customer service in the year 2312.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Simulation
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Idle Paranormal Adventure
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Text based game "Dungeon"
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Strategy
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Rhythm
Play in browser
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