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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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You're My Poison
Sometimes poison is the only way to treat a virus.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
CEEFAX: IN THE TIME OF PLAGUE
BBC CEEFAX is your only source to figure out what food isn't plague-ridden
HeyYeh
Puzzle
Play in browser
Clover
A book of puzzles and riddles
Liero
Puzzle
Interment
A short narrative puzzle game about the connection between the stories of our ancestors and the stories we make today
Interment
Puzzle
GIF
summoned at 2
That time I summoned a demon lord to avoid my 2pm meeting
Fabi
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
DE:AD
A timed text-based puzzle
Brad Bonette
Puzzle
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Dungeoneer's Backpack
Manage your adventurer's inventory!
whitehatcat
Puzzle
Play in browser
Don't Let Me Go
Narrative escape game realised as a student project. Game avalaible in french and english.
sarsky
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Mischievous Thievery Of Jessica The Cat
Jessica the cat has been stealing people's things! A GGJ2021 narrative-puzzle prototype that's now a full game!
Mandy J Watson
Puzzle
Play in browser
Ginger
​Kevin writes a novel within a dictionary to seek what home is.
KevinDu
Adventure
GIF
Start With Nothing
Start with "nothing" and grasp "victory" by moving letters around.
rubyleehs
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Party Line
Point-and-click text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
skin a gentle blue
A text-based puzzle horror game.
constant
Puzzle
Play in browser
Chiaroscuro
A game about you!
Linker
Adventure
Game Crashed
Try to absolutely break this game by finding different crashes.
_superspaceturtle
Puzzle
Rumpel Returns
Break into Rumpelstiltskin's house. Find the answers to his riddles. Save your horse.
estif
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Wolf (TALP)
A Fairytale Text Adventure
lweinreb
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Draculaland
Comic horror clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
DirectXSucks
Abbie Gonzalez
Puzzle
Hepburn: Takaishitai
A reimagining of classic 90s cult horror games.
emmahallows
The Endless Tap Tavern
A D&D-inspired tavern visit.
Jen // Paladin Ink
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
PARANOIA
Charm Cochran
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Tell Me A Bedtime Story (Beta)
Your daughter wants to hear a bedtime story
Greasy Paint
Puzzle
Play in browser
Ghost Hunt
Search for a ghost in a locked room full of clues and bric-a-brac.
solipsistgames
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Egress
Finally, you are perfect...
Aleks Samoylov
Puzzle
Play in browser
2 Tales
Short experimental text game.
ianwrites
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Five Scarabs
A one-room puzzle made with Twine.
agat
Adventure
Play in browser
C://TEXTRIS.EXE
T.E.T.R.I.S. mod installation complete.
TeamE
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
CRAMMM: Totally Accurate Studying Simulator
Crack the books HARD on Maths, Trumpology and Communism. Toss the irrelevant stuff out of your head! #LD42
Steven Tu
Puzzle
Of Their Shadows Deep
A story about love and disease and loss.
Amanda Walker
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Themengi (Gamejam prototype)
a text adventure without your language
vgel
Puzzle
Play in browser
C.A.P.I.
Receba as denúncias, carimbe sem dó os plagiadores descarados e libere os originais! Pronto para essa missão?
DreamerH
Puzzle
Hex Phase
Explosive hexagonal visual fx novel
Hexmin
Visual Novel
No_Title_
What is this? What's going on?
Dirty Interactive
Puzzle
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Repairapy
When therapy is too expensive
PuntasticSadness
Visual Novel
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Lost Light
Lost Light is a mystery, puzzle, detective game.
Pykatone
Visual Novel
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