Top rated games $15 or less for Windows tagged Text based

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Throne of Ashes

Break the curse and uncover your fire.

13Leagues

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(430 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

10mg: Cover Me In Leaves

In bundle

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

Elliot Herriman

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(137 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

WAS/WERE

Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?

RodFireProductions

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(47 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Remnants Of The Past - Act 1

$6.99

A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.

Domakir

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(81 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Eczema Angel Orifice

beautiful twine compilation

Porpentine

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(47 total ratings)

Adventure

GIF

Pixel Fireplace

$4.99

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

Ted Martens

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(152 total ratings)

Simulation

Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service

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

etherane

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(44 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Warsim: The Realm of Aslona

$9.99

Huw2k8

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(38 total ratings)

Simulation

Beyond the Chiron Gate

$10

Text-based space exploration game

John Ayliff

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(37 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Type Knight

$3.99

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

chaikadev

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(35 total ratings)

Perfect Tides

$14.99

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

Meredith Gran

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(30 total ratings)

Adventure

Home Safety Hotline

$14.99

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

Night Signal Entertainment

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(21 total ratings)

Puzzle

if not us

an IF anthology about five heroes who die

ub4q

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(80 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

I doesn't exist

$12.99

An ode to text-adventures.

DreadXP

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(33 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Fallacy Quiz

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

Tim Krief

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(16 total ratings)

Educational

GIF

_transfer

$10

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

Abyssal Uncreations

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(20 total ratings)

Adventure

Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I

$1.50

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

Dave Microwaves Games

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Adventure

Paradise

Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.

Rek & Devine

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(10 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Your Future Self

$2.99

A time-loop based experimental text adventure.

Contortionist Games

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(145 total ratings)

Adventure

Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story

$6.49

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

Seraphinite Games

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(40 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Chatventures

In bundle

text-adventure MMORPG

Sokpop Collective

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(21 total ratings)

Role Playing

IN THE ARMS OF THE NIGHT

£2.40

A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.

polymer despair

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(23 total ratings)

Sorry We're Open

$7.99

Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.

oates

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(52 total ratings)

Role Playing

GIF

Indiepocalypse #22

$15

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

PIZZAPRANKS

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

The Salt Keep

$4.99

A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror

Small Gray Games

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Adventure

Play in browser

Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus

-100%

ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get

MansterSoft

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(10 total ratings)

Role Playing

VOCÊ É UM DEFUNTO MECÂNICO

As suas escolhas não importam.

Virgula Leal

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Blackout: The Darkest Night

$5.99

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

MiniChimera

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair

$14.99

In bundle

A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.

GosatsuVNs

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

Indiepocalypse #17

$15

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

PIZZAPRANKS

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

BBirthday - Visual Novel

Yun Seven

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Can You Come In?

Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.

spacetwinks

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

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

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(36 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Oatboy vs. Slime Mold

-100%

You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!

MansterSoft

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Action

GIF

Replica

$2.99

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

Somi

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Adventure

GIF

Indiepocalypse #9

$15

Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

PIZZAPRANKS

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

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