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Puzzle

Games that challenge the player with critical thinking to solve levels. 

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Games which have short playtimes and can usually be completed in one sitting.

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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Top free Puzzletagged Short and Text based (150 results)

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A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Puzzle
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(you're not alone)
Puzzle
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Postal secret no longer counts! Short atmospheric puzzle solving for a relaxing evening.
Puzzle
A maintenance text adventure
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Daily murder mysteries. Talk to suspects, detect lies, and accuse the murderer and their motive.
Puzzle
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Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
Puzzle
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Only one Todd has the key that other Todd needs to escape.
Puzzle
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closed door. feathered fury.
Interactive Fiction
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A system-based investigative adventure. Ludum Dare 50.
Puzzle
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A Short, Replayable Text-Based RPG
Puzzle
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That time I summoned a demon lord to avoid my 2pm meeting
Interactive Fiction
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Horror Text Adventure
Puzzle
BBC CEEFAX is your only source to figure out what food isn't plague-ridden
Puzzle
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Receba as denúncias, carimbe sem dó os plagiadores descarados e libere os originais! Pronto para essa missão?
Puzzle
A text-based puzzle horror game.
Puzzle
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A short 4 room/puzzle text adventure
Your daughter wants to hear a bedtime story
Puzzle
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A one-room puzzle made with Twine.
Adventure
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The Text Platformer
Platformer
Jessica the cat has been stealing people's things! A GGJ2021 narrative-puzzle prototype that's now a full game!
Puzzle
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A word switch cooking game where the results are up to you.
Interactive Fiction
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a text adventure without your language
Puzzle
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A game about skool, aliens and... cheating.
Puzzle
A coding game with cards.
Card Game
Use Ghost powers to save a kidnapped child.
Adventure
Puzzle
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Can Brother Cruoix make it to Head Brother Seinte in time?
Puzzle
Match the right ingredients to the spells
Puzzle
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See the past, present, and future... decide the outcome.
Puzzle
Cyborg repossession. Temporal compression. All the fun of waiting for an .exe to finish running.
Puzzle
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A short narrative puzzle game about the connection between the stories of our ancestors and the stories we make today
Puzzle
It's Minesweeper! But a console window application!
Puzzle
Your payment's due
Interactive Fiction
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A short puzzle game, made for Wowie Game Jam 2021
Puzzle
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A puzzle/story about reading between the lines
Puzzle
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