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Puzzle

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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Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(95 total ratings)
Puzzle
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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
Play in browser
Skynet Simulator
You are Skynet
edisgreat
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(77 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
12 Word Searches
Find all the words!
Playcebo
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Puzzle
Sleepover Rules
Your friend invites you to his house for a sleepover with a certain set of rules
SjoerdHekking
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Divide
I will not be just a sacrifice.
TrulyDrew
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
GIF
Drift Mine Satellite
A maintenance text adventure
Everest Pipkin
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Play in browser
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
LUNIUM
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
radiosity
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Puzzle
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Adventure
Detectiveland
$5
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
Wumpus Wump You
Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
gate
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Puzzle
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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
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Misplaced
An escape room as a text adventure!
Charu Tak
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Puzzle
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
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
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
Play in browser
GIF
Turing Trial
A Short, Replayable Text-Based RPG
Mary T.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Indiepocalypse #17
$15
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Word Whip
challenging word puzzler
KR
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Daily Murder
Daily murder mysteries. Talk to suspects, detect lies, and accuse the murderer and their motive.
phaddius
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
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
Play in browser
I wish I was
A narrative dungeon-crawler
lulatschia
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Puzzle
GIF
Indiepocalypse #9
$15
Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
The Dust Below
The horizon is a haze of polluted ash.
TrulyDrew
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(12 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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Bottom Chef
Cooking game but your life is a mess
Nardo23
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 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
Play in browser
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