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

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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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The Right Todd
Only one Todd has the key that other Todd needs to escape.
Shawn Bowers!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(55 total ratings)
Puzzle
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GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(94 total ratings)
Puzzle
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You Will Travel No More
Stay a while. Stay forever. Won't you come outside?
BanzaiBonsai
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Adventure
stay with me
(you're not alone)
steff
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Vast Trivia Of The Void
What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!
Whales And Games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Context Catacombs
​A first person dungeon-delving adventure where text and context are everything.
chompdev
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Ace Baker
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
*AAmici
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Puzzle
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häx_processer
Process häxes using our state-of-the-art häx processing terminal
Tomi
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Puzzle
free bird.
closed door. feathered fury.
Passerine
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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sphinx of black quartz judge my vow
a post-mortality puzzle-hex
shrunken studios
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Puzzle
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ChatHuman
Instead of you prompting AI, AI prompts you.
MraveniskoDev
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Group Presentation
It's like algebra, but more abstract
trkern
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Dactylographe
Survivre face à une machine à écrire possédée
Christophe Coyard
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Puzzle
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DE:AD
A timed text-based puzzle
Brad Bonette
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Puzzle
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No Substitutions
A word switch cooking game where the results are up to you.
aeta
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Messages From the Universe Graveyard
Experimental social game. Leave messages for other players in a dead world.
Kanderwund
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
CEEFAX: IN THE TIME OF PLAGUE
BBC CEEFAX is your only source to figure out what food isn't plague-ridden
HeyYeh
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Dear Murder Diary
A murder-mystery game
marcgenesis
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
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The Party Line
Point-and-click text adventure
Robin Johnson
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hifuu OS
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Hefan
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
The Mischievous Thievery Of Jessica The Cat
Jessica the cat has been stealing people's things! A GGJ2021 narrative-puzzle prototype that's now a full game!
Mandy J Watson
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Dungeoneer's Backpack
Manage your adventurer's inventory!
whitehatcat
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
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#02 Welcome to the Jungle!
spielguy
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Gruesome
Classic-style text adventure from a new perspective
Robin Johnson
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Windowns 4-20
Uninstall FoF and repair Javi's life.
aburrron
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Friendship Tests
A game about skool, aliens and... cheating.
Felipe Peticov
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
#07 The Wizard's Tower
expitau
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
SECRETMART: Cryptspace Constraint!
A wordsy GameJamDOR 7 entry written in I7
serendiff
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hallucinatory Machinations Of A Fragile Mind
A descent into confusion. SA Game Jam 2020 entry.
Mandy J Watson
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Repairapy
When therapy is too expensive
PuntasticSadness
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Of Their Shadows Deep
A story about love and disease and loss.
Amanda Walker
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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The Elephant in the Room
A text adventure
diletta
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Please Help Me
A short 4 room/puzzle text adventure
Phillip J Rhoades
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Themengi (Gamejam prototype)
a text adventure without your language
vgel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
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