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Oldest$5 or less that last a few minutes tagged Text based (29 results)

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Text Adventure Game inspired by Cask of Amontillado
Adventure
Christmas short pick your path story
Interactive Fiction
3am
$1
Enjoy a relaxing cup of tea.
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Platformer
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The Rpg
$0.50
Role Playing
A short piece of interactive fiction with birds and other bright things.
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You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
Action
10 Little Monkeys SMS Prank App For Android
A short horror game, in twine.
Adventure
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Interactive Fiction
A dark interactive novel
Interactive Fiction
Date a soft dragon boy! There is absolutely no fiery dystopia!
Interactive Fiction
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Mini-books within mini-books.
Puzzle
A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!
Interactive Fiction
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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Interactive Fiction
Distant Dials is a mush (multi-user shared hallucination), taking place in 2875...
A text based interactive story where you write the laws of The Magick!
Interactive Fiction
Try and survive working as a corporate drone while typing your anger away, making money hand over fist.
Action
The Classic Dice Rolling Game Now For ZZT v3.2!
Play in browser
Idle Paranormal Adventure
Adventure
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
This game is for lovers of text-based adventures with role-playing elements.
Adventure
A old-style text-based RPG
Interactive Fiction
find what was taken
Adventure
3-Hour Non-Visual Novel
Visual Novel
In The Protocol Directive, a dark room and deadly choices await. Uncover secrets, solve dilemmas, and escape alive.
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