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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
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
Divide
I will not be just a sacrifice.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sleepover Rules
Your friend invites you to his house for a sleepover with a certain set of rules
SjoerdHekking
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
Misplaced
An escape room as a text adventure!
Charu Tak
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Interactive Fiction
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
Le miroir d'Ozivior
Relevez le défi imposé par votre ami Ozivior de l'académie de magie dans cette fiction interactive.
samuel_v2
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
The Dust Below
The horizon is a haze of polluted ash.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
stay with me
(you're not alone)
steff
Puzzle
Play in browser
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Adventure
Play in browser
Detectiveland
$5
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Type Help
The Unsolvable Mystery
William Rous
Puzzle
Play in browser
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Indiepocalypse #17
$15
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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I wish I was
A narrative dungeon-crawler
lulatschia
Puzzle
GIF
Indiepocalypse #51
$15
Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Hifuu OS
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Hefan
Adventure
GIF
Drift Mine Satellite
A maintenance text adventure
Everest Pipkin
Play in browser
GENBA no Kizuna
$24.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
Профессия следователь
casper_nn
Interactive Fiction
LUNIUM
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Terminal Town
Mysterious command line tools
AndyMakes
Puzzle
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Adventure
Context Catacombs
​A first person dungeon-delving adventure where text and context are everything.
chompdev
Adventure
Play in browser
Pirateship
$5
Pirate-themed clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Indiepocalypse #44
$15
Issue #44 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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GIF
Postal Secret
Postal secret no longer counts! Short atmospheric puzzle solving for a relaxing evening.
Ymar Games
Puzzle
Bottom Chef
Cooking game but your life is a mess
Nardo23
Puzzle
Play in browser
Pathway
$3
Mini-books within mini-books.
Studio CloudScape
Puzzle
Letters To The Metro
In the middle of a lonely night, the man remembers home...
Arya B
Adventure
The Kuolema
An abandoned ship is found adrift. Look for clues and uncover the secrets of The Kuolema...
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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