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Top selling$5 or less in game jams tagged Text based (25 results)

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Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Adventure
Play in browser
Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!
Interactive Fiction
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
Visual Novel
Text Adventure Game inspired by Cask of Amontillado
Adventure
A game about navigating the depressing and absurd world of customer service in the year 2312.
Simulation
Born
$3.33
today we are God and we create from our own image.
Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
Interactive Fiction
Idle Paranormal Adventure
Adventure
A nonfiction essay etched into the architecture of a virtual space.
Turn based roguelike with resource management on a ship
Strategy
A single script, text-only roguelike set in the unknowable in-between of Australia
Role Playing
A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.
Interactive Fiction
A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!
Interactive Fiction
a sweet story
Interactive Fiction
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
Adventure
The Rpg
$0.50
Role Playing
Text RPG
Role Playing
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Role Playing
Look at you. You want to travel but do you have enough money? Lets find out...
Strategy
Dr. Diabolical is at it again! Can you escape his house of horrors?
Puzzle
Play in browser
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