Top games $15 or less that last a few minutes tagged Text based

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The Salt Keep

$4.99

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

Small Gray Games

Adventure

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

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

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

Pathway

Mini-books within mini-books.

Studio CloudScape

Puzzle

VOCÊ É UM DEFUNTO MECÂNICO

As suas escolhas não importam.

Virgula Leal

Interactive Fiction

Ultra Type-R

$1.99

ansdor

Platformer

Play in browser

Date The Lizard!

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

RoAnna Sylver

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Oatboy vs. Slime Mold

-100%

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

Action

Interactive Fiction

Enjoy a relaxing cup of tea.

madameberry

Doki Doki Ragnarok

$12.99

Funny Viking Dating Sim (SFW Ages 12+)

BrutalHack

Visual Novel

Peculiar Fables: The Werebed

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

Whitewatt

Interactive Fiction

void.Resign

Text Adventure Game inspired by Cask of Amontillado

avarisclari

Adventure

Fountain 1917

$2.99

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

Somnolent Succulent Studio, LLC

Evelyn's Farm

$2.99

Idle Paranormal Adventure

jsenter

Adventure

The Adventures Of Pocket Battle Kitty!

$7.99

Text based game "Dungeon"

Sarainia

Strategy

Medieval Knight

$1.50

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

Text and Art Games

Adventure

When Silence Fell

$2.49

A dark interactive novel

Interactive Fiction

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

InvalidSpacebar

Action

Zee!

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

Dr. Dos

Play in browser

The Magick (Beta)

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

Interactive Fiction

Life is a journey.

Adventure

$1.04

A short horror game, in twine.

jestershark

Adventure

Play in browser

Distant Dials

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

Nomys_Tempar

The Tower and the Toucan

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

E. Lily Yu

Play in browser

Jason Webb's MMA Manager Game

£1.99

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

Sports

Shooter

£1.99

Pro-wrestling strategy game. Can your promotion top the wrestling ratings?

Jason Webb

Sports

Greymarsh

$2.99

A old-style text-based RPG

Interactive Fiction

find what was taken

Adventure

$10

A book of playable poems by Todd Anderson

Todd Anderson

The Rpg

$0.50

camapps

Role Playing

10 Lil Monkeys - SMS Game

$0.99

10 Little Monkeys SMS Prank App For Android

Kevin Loring

Christmas Time

Christmas short pick your path story

avarisclari

Interactive Fiction

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