Top selling paid games that last a few minutes tagged Text based

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Type Knight

$3.99

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

chaikadev

Acolyte

$10.99

A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.

SUPERSTRING

Interactive Fiction

Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood

$19.99

You are Robin Hood! An epic story-driven strategy-RPG blending narrative choice, resource management, and base building.

Role Playing

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

Small Gray Games

Adventure

Play in browser

3am

Enjoy a relaxing cup of tea.

madameberry

VOCÊ É UM DEFUNTO MECÂNICO

As suas escolhas não importam.

Virgula Leal

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

Pathway

Mini-books within mini-books.

Studio CloudScape

Puzzle

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Hotwriting

$10

A book of playable poems by Todd Anderson

Todd Anderson

void.Resign

Text Adventure Game inspired by Cask of Amontillado

Adventure

Interactive Fiction

$12.99

Funny Viking Dating Sim (SFW Ages 12+)

BrutalHack

Visual Novel

Ultra Type-R

$1.99

ansdor

Platformer

Play in browser

Oatboy vs. Slime Mold

-100%

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

MansterSoft

Action

Date The Lizard!

Date a soft dragon boy! There is absolutely no fiery dystopia!

RoAnna Sylver

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Evelyn's Farm

$2.99

Idle Paranormal Adventure

Adventure

Life is a journey.

Adventure

Try and survive working as a corporate drone while typing your anger away, making money hand over fist.

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Action

Zee!

The Classic Dice Rolling Game Now For ZZT v3.2!

Dr. Dos

Play in browser

Fountain 1917

$2.99

The video game adaptation of the infamous Dadaist anti-art sculpture

Somnolent Succulent Studio, LLC

Peculiar Fables: The Werebed

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

Whitewatt

Interactive Fiction

When Silence Fell

$2.49

A dark interactive novel

Inkborne Tales

Interactive Fiction

Christmas Time

Christmas short pick your path story

avarisclari

Interactive Fiction

Jason Webb's MMA Manager Game

£1.99

Take your MMA federation to the top, with the original MMA Manager game!

Jason Webb

Sports

Greymarsh

$2.99

A old-style text-based RPG

Nimavoha Interactive

Interactive Fiction

The Magick (Beta)

A text based interactive story where you write the laws of The Magick!

Yusuf I. Toonbull

Interactive Fiction

The Tower and the Toucan

A short piece of interactive fiction with birds and other bright things.

E. Lily Yu

Play in browser

Medieval Knight

$1.50

This game is for lovers of text-based adventures with role-playing elements.

Text and Art Games

Adventure

Distant Dials

Distant Dials is a mush (multi-user shared hallucination), taking place in 2875...

Nomys_Tempar

The Rpg

$0.50

camapps

Role Playing

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