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Top selling$15 or less from 2023 tagged Text based (26 results)

Explore games from 2023 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 from 2023 on itch.io to have them show up here.

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Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Interactive Fiction
Text-Mode Social RPG
Role Playing
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith GranVerified Account
Adventure
Issue #44 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
An online festival celebrating the 100th Sokpop game!
Sokpop CollectiveVerified Account
Adventure
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Adventure
Kevin wants to show what his life would be and why. 他用没人懂的语言写了一本书。
Adventure
Interactive royalty novel, with romance. Text based
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A retro text adventure!
Interactive Fiction
A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.
Interactive Fiction
Now witness the wrath of a true beast.
Visual Novel
A Choose Your Own Adventure Style text-based horror game
Interactive Fiction
Step into a world where history and fiction converge!
Interactive Fiction
Ask Fracine AI a question
Educational
A trip to cash out coins yields more than you bargained for.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A text-mode adventure for your Rainbow 100 (and other inferior platforms)!
Adventure
Join a scientific study, compete in games, and avoid the manipulation of others before things take a turn for the worse.
Visual Novel
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
Adventure
A old-style text-based RPG
Interactive Fiction
Many revelations will be realized as Roxanne's year the the crew comes to an end in the finale of this episodic trilogy.
Visual Novel
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