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Top rated$5 or less for Windows not in game jams tagged Text based (64 results)

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Break the curse and uncover your fire.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(428 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
beautiful twine compilation
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Adventure
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(152 total ratings)
Simulation
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Educational
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Adventure
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(144 total ratings)
Adventure
text-adventure MMORPG
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Role Playing
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Role Playing
As suas escolhas não importam.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Action
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
Crew stolen and forced to crash land on an alien planet, you must start fresh with nothing but a... talking cat?!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Role Playing
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Role Playing
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
3am
$1
Enjoy a relaxing cup of tea.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
A narrative game about tarot card readings for odd customers.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Laser Moles, Knife-Fighting Chimps, and an ASCII Snail
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Action
A small text-adventure survival game.
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Adventure
Mini-books within mini-books.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The video game adaptation of the infamous Dadaist anti-art sculpture
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
A winter themed otome game where you get to romance a jerky singer!
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Multiple endings, moral choices, and a quest for vengance.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A heart-warming story of friendship.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A not-so-scary story.
Rated 3.4 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Explore a miniature world as an emotionally driven robot and discover unique experiences with each new emotion.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Relive a story of a young girl who is desperately lost.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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