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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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Hifuu OS
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Hefan
Adventure
The Den
Vee and Aiden live together in ‘The Den’, but tonight, a chance discovery is about to change their lives forever…
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Indiepocalypse #52
$15
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
The Kuolema
An abandoned ship is found adrift. Look for clues and uncover the secrets of The Kuolema...
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
One-Screen Game
pluf
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Drift Mine Satellite
A maintenance text adventure
Everest Pipkin
Play in browser
Dear Murder Diary
A murder-mystery game
marcgenesis
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Daily Murder
Daily murder mysteries. Talk to suspects, detect lies, and accuse the murderer and their motive.
phaddius
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Right Todd
Only one Todd has the key that other Todd needs to escape.
Shawn Bowers!
Puzzle
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Pirateship
$5
Pirate-themed clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Ace Baker
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
*AAmici
Puzzle
Play in browser
You Will Travel No More
Stay a while. Stay forever. Won't you come outside?
BanzaiBonsai
Puzzle
Play in browser
[demo] detailed cooking sim
a game about unwritten rules
zidigital
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
Play in browser
Context Catacombs
​A first person dungeon-delving adventure where text and context are everything.
chompdev
Adventure
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Kevin(1997-2077)
$4.99
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
I.A.G. Alpha
A game within a game, puzzles within puzzles.
techniX
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Профессия следователь
casper_nn
Interactive Fiction
free bird.
closed door. feathered fury.
Passerine
Interactive Fiction
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The Tale of Aisha Qandisha Demo
A spin-off of the Moroccan folklore tale "Aisha Qandisha"
Diyae Doua
Interactive Fiction
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[System]
Test your correctness in this exercise that has nothing to do with grammar!
Ines Alcolea
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Indiepocalypse #9
$15
Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Portcullis
Zork-like retro text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
吟游诗人的重生
一个与现代汉语有关的文字解谜游戏
matrix67
Puzzle
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Gruesome
Classic-style text adventure from a new perspective
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Nested Letters
prettysmart
Puzzle
Ginger
​Kevin writes a novel within a dictionary to seek what home is.
KevinDu
Adventure
sphinx of black quartz judge my vow
a post-mortality puzzle-hex
shrunken studios
Puzzle
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An Elmwood Trail
Solve the strange case of a missing girl in this interactive mystery story game!
Techyonic
Adventure
häx_processer
Process häxes using our state-of-the-art häx processing terminal
Tomi
Puzzle
GIF
Turing Trial
A Short, Replayable Text-Based RPG
Mary T.
Puzzle
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GIF
Cherry: A High School Misadventure
A Twine game about high school and friends
Emma Dee
Puzzle
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GIF
ARES - Automated Relay System
Awaiting command...
ChXris
Puzzle
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Locked Room on Rails
A trip back home turns into an impromptu murder mystery.
solarProtag
Visual Novel
THE STANDARD SOCIAL WEBSITE
vaporwario
Puzzle
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