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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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Playcebo
Puzzle
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
Divide
I will not be just a sacrifice.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
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Misplaced
An escape room as a text adventure!
Charu Tak
Puzzle
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GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Puzzle
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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
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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
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The Dust Below
The horizon is a haze of polluted ash.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
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LUNIUM
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
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stay with me
(you're not alone)
steff
Puzzle
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I wish I was
A narrative dungeon-crawler
lulatschia
Puzzle
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Adventure
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Adventure
Play in browser
Hifuu OS
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Hefan
Adventure
GIF
Terminal Town
Mysterious command line tools
AndyMakes
Puzzle
Letters To The Metro
In the middle of a lonely night, the man remembers home...
Arya B
Adventure
DimenShift (Jam version)
tenghuan
Puzzle
ChatHuman
Instead of you prompting AI, AI prompts you.
MraveniskoDev
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
It can’t be true it mustn’t be true
He couldn't have... could he?
Charm Cochran
Interactive Fiction
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[demo] detailed cooking sim
a game about unwritten rules
zidigital
Puzzle
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Memento Mori
Uncover the secrets hidden on an abandoned computer.
Triceratops43
Interactive Fiction
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GIF
Drift Mine Satellite
A maintenance text adventure
Everest Pipkin
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Airwaves
Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
cathode radiator
Visual Novel
Ginger
​Kevin writes a novel within a dictionary to seek what home is.
KevinDu
Adventure
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
Postal Secret
Postal secret no longer counts! Short atmospheric puzzle solving for a relaxing evening.
Ymar Games
Puzzle
I.A.G. Alpha
techniX
Interactive Fiction
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Word Whip
challenging word puzzler
KR
Puzzle
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sphinx of black quartz judge my vow
a post-mortality puzzle-hex
shrunken studios
Puzzle
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Bottom Chef
Cooking game but your life is a mess
Nardo23
Puzzle
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Group Presentation
It's like algebra, but more abstract
trkern
Puzzle
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Context Catacombs
​A first person dungeon-delving adventure where text and context are everything.
chompdev
Adventure
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GIF
Ace Baker
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
*AAmici
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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