Top rated released$15 or less tagged Text based (134 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
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Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
beautiful twine compilation
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)Adventure
A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(96 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
Text-based space exploration game
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
Perfect Tides
$14.99
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)Adventure
Type Knight
$3.99
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)Puzzle
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)Adventure
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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$10
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)Adventure
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)Adventure
Paradise
$1
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
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
text-adventure MMORPG
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)Role Playing
Your Future Self
$2.99
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)The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)Adventure
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Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(55 total ratings)Role Playing
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)Visual Novel
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)Date a soft dragon boy! There is absolutely no fiery dystopia!
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)Role Playing
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)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
A kaleidoscopic vision of one woman seen through three rotating eyes.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
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