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Top rated$15 or less for Linux tagged Text based (68 results)

Explore games for Linux tagged Text based on itch.io. Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great a · Sell your games for Linux on itch.io to have them show up here.

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Break the curse and uncover your fire.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(473 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
beautiful twine compilation
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(48 total ratings)
Adventure
A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(89 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(155 total ratings)
Simulation
Text-based space exploration game
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(44 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)
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Educational
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(82 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
An ode to text-adventures.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
As suas escolhas não importam.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(147 total ratings)
Adventure
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Role Playing
Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Text-Mode Social RPG
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Action
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Role Playing
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Funny Viking Dating Sim (SFW Ages 12+)
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Navigate intense job interviews with the help of a god who can stop time!
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Text-based open world roguelike
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
In the distant future, you join a strange organization to find the secret behind The Object
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
3am
$1
Enjoy a relaxing cup of tea.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by broken memories. Reclaim your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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