Top rated paidfor Linux tagged Text based (73 results)
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Break the curse and uncover your fire.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(474 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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A story of love, death and lies.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(97 total ratings)Visual Novel
WAS/WERE
$4
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
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Pixel Fireplace
$4.99
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(155 total ratings)Simulation
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(66 total ratings)Adventure
Text-based space exploration game
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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)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
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
As suas escolhas não importam.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
Paradise
$1
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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)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)Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
Love Exalt 8372
$9.99
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)Visual Novel
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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
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)Role Playing
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)Visual Novel
Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)Visual Novel
Doki Doki Ragnarok
$12.99
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
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Text-based open world roguelike
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
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