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

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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 rated free Puzzle
for Linux tagged Text based (37 results)

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One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Adventure
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
GIF
Postal Secret
Postal secret no longer counts! Short atmospheric puzzle solving for a relaxing evening.
Ymar Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Puzzle
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
ChatHuman
Instead of you prompting AI, AI prompts you.
MraveniskoDev
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GENBA no Kizuna - Demo
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
Dear Murder Diary
A murder-mystery game
marcgenesis
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Tell Me A Bedtime Story (Full Version)
Your daughter wants to hear a bedtime story
Greasy Paint
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Tricks of light in the forest
Climate change interactive fiction
Pseudavid
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Gruesome
Classic-style text adventure from a new perspective
Robin Johnson
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
TWO
A Puzzle Heavy Text Adventure Game Using Two Words
Adventuron
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dawn of the Soviet Ladybirds
A Cold War-themed text adventure. With ladybirds.
ChristopherMerriner
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Terminal Escape
A text based escape room game with a twist!
sandycane
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
Game Crashed
Try to absolutely break this game by finding different crashes.
_superspaceturtle
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
HASH17
Do you want to be part of the most notorious and dangerous group of hackers that there is?
temdisponivel
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Who am I?
Escape-Room type game about an old person with dementia.
Robert Ursache
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
My Death Story
A high-velocity text adventure
Akzidenz
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Pale Luna (Remade)
Horror Text Adventure
RealPpTheBest
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
DirectXSucks
Abbie Gonzalez
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Hepburn: Takaishitai
A reimagining of classic 90s cult horror games.
emmahallows
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
The Official Saturns_Comics Point And Click Text Adventure Puzzle Simulator 5000
Point and Click your way out of the hell world
Saturn Murray
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Clay Files
A murder mystery puzzle game
Kaius
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
PIGBLUE
Visual novel/text-based adventure
ispinoza
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
We Failed
A short puzzle game, made for Wowie Game Jam 2021
SinisterX5
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Colors
A colorful experience where you have to find the seven colored crystal balls
Kimi
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
HAX
A save file hacking text adventure
eleniel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Custom Cards
A coding game with cards.
MovingGearSoftware
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Card Game
server.vasm
Become an expert in Visual Assembly
IcyLava
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Medieval Psycho
Use Ghost powers to save a kidnapped child.
VasantJ
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
No_Title_
What is this? What's going on?
Dirty Interactive
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Encryption Harvester
A wordle-inspired game about harvesting key words in encrypted enemy files through guesswork and clues in the story
LandarVargan
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
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The Collective
Can you follow the right path to join The Collective in this text adventure game?
egoGames
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Whispers of Another World
Escape Game
Mia
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Bulls & Cows
4-digits puzzle game
fliar
Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
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