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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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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 Puzzletagged Short and Text based (51 results)

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A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(96 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Only one Todd has the key that other Todd needs to escape.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(55 total ratings)
Puzzle
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You are Skynet
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(79 total ratings)
Puzzle
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A maintenance text adventure
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
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(you're not alone)
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Postal secret no longer counts! Short atmospheric puzzle solving for a relaxing evening.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Puzzle
A Short, Replayable Text-Based RPG
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Daily murder mysteries. Talk to suspects, detect lies, and accuse the murderer and their motive.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Puzzle
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closed door. feathered fury.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A system-based investigative adventure. Ludum Dare 50.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Puzzle
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A word switch cooking game where the results are up to you.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A text-based puzzle horror game.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
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BBC CEEFAX is your only source to figure out what food isn't plague-ridden
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Puzzle
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A one-room puzzle made with Twine.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
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Your daughter wants to hear a bedtime story
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Jessica the cat has been stealing people's things! A GGJ2021 narrative-puzzle prototype that's now a full game!
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Uninstall FoF and repair Javi's life.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A game about skool, aliens and... cheating.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
Receba as denúncias, carimbe sem dó os plagiadores descarados e libere os originais! Pronto para essa missão?
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
a text adventure without your language
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
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A short 4 room/puzzle text adventure
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Cyborg repossession. Temporal compression. All the fun of waiting for an .exe to finish running.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
That time I summoned a demon lord to avoid my 2pm meeting
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Your payment's due
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Match the right ingredients to the spells
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
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A puzzle/story about reading between the lines
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Horror Text Adventure
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
A very immersive (in a bad way) text adventure
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
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A short narrative puzzle game about the connection between the stories of our ancestors and the stories we make today
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
A text adventure where you'll need to outsmart a crazy PC virus to regain control over your life.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Une fiction interactive où le destin de l'humanité est entre vos mains
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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See the past, present, and future... decide the outcome.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
The Text Platformer
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
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