Top Downloadable games $15 or less tagged Text based

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Home Safety Hotline

$14.99

A horror game about working in a 90's call center.

Night Signal Entertainment

Puzzle

Fallacy Quiz

Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.

Tim Krief

Educational

GIF

Pixel Fireplace

$4.99

Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy

Ted Martens

Simulation

Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story

$6.49

Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.

Seraphinite Games

Interactive Fiction

Beyond the Chiron Gate

$10

Text-based space exploration game

John Ayliff

Interactive Fiction

Warsim: The Realm of Aslona

$9.99

Huw2k8

Simulation

Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service

When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.

etherane

Interactive Fiction

The Away Team

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.

Underflow Studios

Interactive Fiction

Your Future Self

$2.99

A time-loop based experimental text adventure.

Contortionist Games

Adventure

WAS/WERE

Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?

RodFireProductions

Interactive Fiction

Paradise

Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.

Rek & Devine

Interactive Fiction

GIF

I doesn't exist

$12.99

An ode to text-adventures.

DreadXP

Interactive Fiction

Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I

$1.50

A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles

Dave Microwaves Games

Adventure

Perfect Tides

$14.99

Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.

Adventure

BBirthday - Visual Novel

Yun Seven

Visual Novel

Eczema Angel Orifice

beautiful twine compilation

Porpentine

Adventure

Sorry We're Open

$7.99

Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.

oates

Role Playing

Chatventures

In bundle

text-adventure MMORPG

Sokpop Collective

Role Playing

GIF

Type Knight

$3.99

Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.

Text-based open world roguelike

Alex Leone

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Replica

$2.99

Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.

Somi

Adventure

SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair

$14.99

In bundle

A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.

GosatsuVNs

Visual Novel

GIF

_transfer

$10

a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world

Abyssal Uncreations

Adventure

IN THE ARMS OF THE NIGHT

£2.40

A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.

polymer despair

GIF

Blackout: The Darkest Night

$5.99

Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.

MiniChimera

Interactive Fiction

Swords of Freeport

$15

Text-Mode Social RPG

Elissa Black

Role Playing

I EAT MANTRAS FOR BREAKFAST

$7.77

SCREAMFEAST

Maria Mison

GIF

Indiepocalypse #22

$15

Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

PIZZAPRANKS

GIF

Indiepocalypse #17

$15

Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

PIZZAPRANKS

Fruit Salad Theory

$5.99

A night to remember...in more ways than one..

Pixels and Pins

Visual Novel

GIF

Indiepocalypse #51

$15

Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

PIZZAPRANKS

Subtext

$6.99

A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.

William O'Connell

Interactive Fiction

Acolyte

$10.99

A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.

SUPERSTRING

Interactive Fiction

Trackless

$10

In the distant future, you join a strange organization to find the secret behind The Object

12East

Adventure

Life Eater

$14.99

A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.

Strange Scaffold

Interactive Fiction

DUNGEONBLADE - HAUNTED KINGDOM

-100%

A text adventure game where you explore a "living" dungeon defeating otherworldly beasts, and avoiding deadly traps.

Bitl Development Studio

Adventure

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