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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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$15 or less with Mouse support tagged Text based (56 results)

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10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(144 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
WAS/WERE
$4
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(53 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
xrafstar
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Adventure
Fallacy Quiz
$12
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Educational
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
if not us
$7
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(82 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Detectiveland
$5
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
VOCÊ É UM DEFUNTO MECÂNICO
$1
As suas escolhas não importam.
Virgula Leal
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Blackout: The Darkest Night
$5.99
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
MiniChimera
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Love Exalt 8372
$9.99
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Veki
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Date The Lizard!
$1
Date a soft dragon boy! There is absolutely no fiery dystopia!
RoAnna Sylver
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Away Team
$8
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Underflow Studios
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Upheaval
$4.99
-50%
Text-based open world roguelike
Alex Leone
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Somi
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
Witches and Bandits and Swords (Oh My)
$0
-100%
A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Krunchy Fried Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Long Journey Home
$1
Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
skiddyhale
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Doki Doki Ragnarok
$12.99
Funny Viking Dating Sim (SFW Ages 12+)
BrutalHack
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Passage: A Job Interview Simulator!
$3.49
In bundle
Navigate intense job interviews with the help of a god who can stop time!
Em
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
You and Not You
$1
sunny evans
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
3am
$1
Enjoy a relaxing cup of tea.
madameberry
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Proper Detective 2000
1.50€
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
kernel_dc
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
You're Going To Be Fine (Branches)
$1
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Megan
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
SUPERSTRING
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Sepia Tears: Reprise Edition
$7
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Scarlet String Studios
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
S.O.R.S
£6.99
A sci-fi doctor simulation game
RichSG
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Simulation
[SIBERIA]
£1
A small text-adventure survival game.
MSSNG
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Adventure
Pathway
$3
Mini-books within mini-books.
Studio CloudScape
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
Night in the Unpleasant House
$5
A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.
Porch Weather Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Dream Warrior
$4.99
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Robert from High Tower Games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
Electric Sleep
$4.50
Explore a miniature world as an emotionally driven robot and discover unique experiences with each new emotion.
Cryru
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Crossroads
$2
Explore your relationship with your best frined and discover a bit about yourself
May Barros
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Lifestream
$2.99
Find your missing father and uncover an ancient conspiracy in this haunting text adventure!
Unimatrix Productions
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Writer: A Change Of Identity
$2.99
You have a unique opportunity to study the data regarding an identity change experiment.
GameAboutGames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Sky Caravan
$9.99
A Text-Based RPG where you make tough decisions as captain of a commercial airship
Studio Bravarda
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
Спасти принцессу 2
$2.99
Много выборов, 5 концовок
wolfgames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Saving the Princess 2
$2.99
A young doctor enters the dream world to rescue the woman he loves
wolfgames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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