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Top released$15 or less tagged Text based (68 results)

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Solo Journaling RPG in a setting of scientific exploration and unnatural observations
You swore an Oath. And it's magically binding.
tell the story of how you kiss kiss and fall in love <3
A Horror Solo Journaling TTRPG about Paranormal Investigation
A new revised rules set for solo journal RPGs, based on the Epistolary solo journal RPG system.
A one-page RPG about a party of adventurers being guided by an Oracle that may not exactly be what it seems.
A Storytelling Card Game About Refusing (or Accepting) Your Destiny
A one-page RPG about Witches resolving a Disturbance through flashy Magic
A GMless, one player game about a mad scientist that aims to build the greatest creation anyone's ever seen
and the Accounts of the Changeling Child whom was brought crosst the Veil
The long-awaited sequel to the now-second-most important game of all time
A solo RPG and journaling game set in a labyrinthine mall.
An epistolary game of love and letters.
a character creation game that makes you clean your room
a journaling game of solitary journeys on post-apocalyptic highways
A solo game about loving a malicious monarch.
A solo game about haunting a bed and breakfast around Halloween.
Multi-User Discord Server Lore-Universe Role Play!
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A storytelling game about the world's pettiest café and its quest for payback.
An expansion pack for Heroes of Lite featuring the new Gauntlet weapon type, new Skills, and new Combat Arts!
You're a fan of mechs and their pilots: spectate their glory.
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How can you just sit there and eat pizza!?
A solo journaling game using the Carta SRD about exploring an abandoned mansion.
Yes, who’s this? A LARP about re-getting to know a life long lover or friend.
a potent spell, a game that countless others have performed, LARPy/artsy
An extraterrestrial being has made contact and invaded... your group chat in this text-based guessing game using emojis.
reveal your true names
An expansion pack for The Masks We Wear with a playable combat-navigator hybrid arcana and new Reaper build
An expansion pack for The Masks We Wear with new enemy-recruitment mechanics for a playable Fool Arcana
Dracula in the world of The Blood
a universal, percentile based, tabletop roleplaying game
A micro-world re-architecting game/ art game
More money, more problems?
a decidedly un-heroic pen-and-paper dungeon crawl
A TTRPG about Welcoming and Friendship
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reaching out from isolation
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