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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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$15 or less tagged Text based (239 results)

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Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Strange Scaffold
Interactive Fiction
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Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
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Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
John Ayliff
Interactive Fiction
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Pixel Fireplace
$3.24
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Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Ted Martens
Simulation
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if not us
$7
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Interactive Fiction
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10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Interactive Fiction
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Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Adventure
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Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service
$5
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
etherane
Interactive Fiction
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Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story
$6.49
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Seraphinite Games
Interactive Fiction
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Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
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WAS/WERE
$4
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Interactive Fiction
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The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Adventure
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Perfect Tides
$14.99
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith Gran
Adventure
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Paradise
$1
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rek & Devine
Interactive Fiction
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I EAT MANTRAS FOR BREAKFAST
$7.77
SCREAMFEAST
Maria Mison
GIF
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Type Knight
$3.99
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
chaikadev
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Sorry We're Open
$7.99
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Role Playing
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Chatventures
$3
In bundle
text-adventure MMORPG
Sokpop Collective
Role Playing
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The Away Team
$8
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Underflow Studios
Interactive Fiction
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Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Adventure
GIF
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Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Somi
Adventure
GIF
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I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Interactive Fiction
GIF
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_transfer
$10
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Abyssal Uncreations
Adventure
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SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
GIF
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Blackout: The Darkest Night
$5.99
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
MiniChimera
Interactive Fiction
GIF
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Indiepocalypse #51
$15
Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
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IN THE ARMS OF THE NIGHT
£2.40
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
polymer despair
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The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena
$4
A kaleidoscopic vision of one woman seen through three rotating eyes.
Fantasia Malware
Interactive Fiction
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GIF
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Indiepocalypse #22
$15
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
GIF
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Indiepocalypse #17
$15
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
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Detectiveland
$5
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
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Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
SUPERSTRING
Interactive Fiction
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Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
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Sepia Tears: Reprise Edition
$7
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Scarlet String Studios
Visual Novel
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Trackless
$10
In the distant future, you join a strange organization to find the secret behind The Object
12East
Adventure
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Fruit Salad Theory
$5.99
A night to remember...in more ways than one..
Pixels and Pins
Visual Novel
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