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Top$15 or less that last about a half-hour tagged Text based (38 results)

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beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Interactive Fiction
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Visual Novel
S.O.R.S
£6.99
A sci-fi doctor simulation game
Simulation
A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Visual Novel
Play in browser
An indie 2.5D post-apocalyptic adventure designed in pixel art
Adventure
A small text-adventure survival game.
Adventure
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Role Playing
Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
Interactive Fiction
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Interactive Fiction
Interactive royalty novel, with romance. Text based
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Can you discover you?
Interactive Fiction
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Adventure
A young doctor enters the dream world to rescue the woman he loves
Interactive Fiction
Много выборов, 5 концовок
Interactive Fiction
a game about ghosts, Fate, and a very worried younger brother
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Turn based roguelike with resource management on a ship
Strategy
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
Interactive Fiction
Join a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. Explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out!
Visual Novel
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
Adventure
A Sci-fi interactive adventure
Interactive Fiction
oooh.ga
£1.99
Gather round... it's time to die.
Adventure
A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Simulation
Send Randomized SMS messages of love!
Text Wormhole is a dodge game of bullet hell generated by the roguelike way dynamically based on the theme of letters
Action
A text-mode adventure for your Rainbow 100 (and other inferior platforms)!
Adventure
A Choose Your Own Adventure Style text-based horror game
Interactive Fiction
A text-based fairy tale.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Interactive fiction, solo roleplaying, and literary discussion based in the dystopian nightmare of Orwell's "1984"
Interactive Fiction
AI Dating Mystery
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Explore the world around you, attack the enemys attacking you, find your memorys.
Role Playing
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