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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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One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
12 Word Searches
Find all the words!
Playcebo
Puzzle
Misplaced
An escape room as a text adventure!
Charu Tak
Puzzle
Play in browser
Divide
I will not be just a sacrifice.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Puzzle
Play in browser
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
Sleepover Rules
Your friend invites you to his house for a sleepover with a certain set of rules
SjoerdHekking
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Adventure
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 🐳
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Dust Below
The horizon is a haze of polluted ash.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
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I wish I was
A narrative dungeon-crawler
lulatschia
Puzzle
LUNIUM
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hifuu OS
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Hefan
Adventure
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Adventure
stay with me
(you're not alone)
steff
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Terminal Town
Mysterious command line tools
AndyMakes
Puzzle
One-Screen Game
pluf
Puzzle
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Letters To The Metro
In the middle of a lonely night, the man remembers home...
Arya B
Adventure
GIF
Drift Mine Satellite
A maintenance text adventure
Everest Pipkin
Play in browser
Saphira & Ori
A text-based puzzle game
Poppy1345
Puzzle
Context Catacombs
​A first person dungeon-delving adventure where text and context are everything.
chompdev
Adventure
Play in browser
The Kuolema
An abandoned ship is found adrift. Look for clues and uncover the secrets of The Kuolema...
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
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Ardilous
Uncover international spies in this investigative text puzzle game inspired by the classic Carmen San Diego.
Alexander Sheep
Puzzle
[demo] detailed cooking sim
a game about unwritten rules
zidigital
Puzzle
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Wumpus Wump You
Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
gate
Puzzle
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Word Whip
challenging word puzzler
KR
Puzzle
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The Daily Murder
Daily murder mysteries. Talk to suspects, detect lies, and accuse the murderer and their motive.
phaddius
Puzzle
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ChatHuman
Instead of you prompting AI, AI prompts you.
MraveniskoDev
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Kevin(1997-2077)
Kevin wants to show what his life would be and why. 他用没人懂的语言写了一本书。
KevinDu
Adventure
GIF
Ace Baker
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
*AAmici
Puzzle
Play in browser
Airwaves
Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
cathode radiator
Visual Novel
OSTRO - A System Investigation
A system-based investigative adventure. Ludum Dare 50.
Totteri
Puzzle
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Zeppelin Adventure
Sci-fi puzzly clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
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The Right Todd
Only one Todd has the key that other Todd needs to escape.
Shawn Bowers!
Puzzle
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From Champagne To Murder
an experimental detective game, using a new form of dialog system
Vin Botthin
Puzzle
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Escape from the Deep
Text Adventure in the deep dark ocean.
Dethmunk
Interactive Fiction
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