Top games $15 or less in game jams tagged Text based

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Beyond the Chiron Gate

$10

Text-based space exploration game

John Ayliff

Interactive Fiction

WAS/WERE

Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?

RodFireProductions

Interactive Fiction

10mg: Cover Me In Leaves

In bundle

A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.

Elliot Herriman

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

Type Knight

$3.99

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

chaikadev

Revenge of the Antagonist

$1.99

Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!

ChaniMK

Visual Novel

I EAT MANTRAS FOR BREAKFAST

$7.77

SCREAMFEAST

Maria Mison

S.O.R.S

£6.99

A sci-fi doctor simulation game

Simulation

A game about navigating the depressing and absurd world of customer service in the year 2312.

TeamLazerBeam

Simulation

Born

$3.33

today we are God and we create from our own image.

Maria Mison

Long Journey Home

Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms

skiddyhale

Interactive Fiction

VAULT

In bundle

Discover what lies within the Vault

KevEatsCheese

Adventure

Baking with Lizzie

a sweet story

Adri

Interactive Fiction

Peculiar Fables: The Werebed

A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!

Whitewatt

Interactive Fiction

void.Resign

Text Adventure Game inspired by Cask of Amontillado

avarisclari

Adventure

Utopia, an Essay

A nonfiction essay etched into the architecture of a virtual space.

Bruno Dias

Night in the Unpleasant House

A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.

Porch Weather Games

Interactive Fiction

ONE HUNDRED ROOMS

A single script, text-only roguelike set in the unknowable in-between of Australia

DIM CHAMBER

Role Playing

Evelyn's Farm

$2.99

Idle Paranormal Adventure

jsenter

Adventure

The Adventures Of Pocket Battle Kitty!

$7.99

Text based game "Dungeon"

Sarainia

Strategy

Sea of Survival

Turn based roguelike with resource management on a ship

Housebird Games

Strategy

Microcrawl

$2.99

Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid

ZPJ Interactive

Adventure

The Seance

£1

Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!

Quantum Sheep

Interactive Fiction

Astra Protocol 2

$6.99

A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure

Slice Bar

Simulation

Clockwatch

dysprositos

Rhythm

Play in browser

Dr. Diabolical's House of Horrors

Dr. Diabolical is at it again! Can you escape his house of horrors?

maxdcrow

Puzzle

Play in browser

NOT ENOUGH SPOONS

Ladylike [she/her]

Interactive Fiction

Raspberry Jam

2€

An small text adventure about making raspberry jam.

Bastian

Interactive Fiction

Road To Wealth

$4.99

Text RPG

Konithir

Role Playing

The House Wins

Whats life without risk?

Hopeless

Mental Health Intake Survey

Ladylike [she/her]

Interactive Fiction

Travel Toil

$2.99

Look at you. You want to travel but do you have enough money? Lets find out...

Strategy

$0.50

Role Playing

£2.50

Easy to understand mini game using coordinates!

jackshotgamer

Role Playing

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