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Games that challenge the player with critical thinking to solve levels. 

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Text based

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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Uncover the secrets hidden on an abandoned computer.
Interactive Fiction
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A game about you!
Adventure
A classic pirates escape from jail
Puzzle
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Visual Novel
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You found an old EVE Tech computer, abandoned after the company couldn't control what it created. 7 minutes... or not?
Puzzle
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A fantasy text-based game about trust and betrayal.
Role Playing
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A short (timed) text-based hacker adventure.
Puzzle
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You find yourself at a support group for tiny creatures with 20 bucks in your pocket.
Puzzle
A worm text adventure!
Puzzle
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how long you can hold the door?
Survival
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3-Hour Non-Visual Novel
Visual Novel
Trapped in a room on a wrecked Space Station. What will you do? A text based Adventure.
Interactive Fiction
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Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Puzzle
A Short Text Adventure Game
Adventure
A game about upgrades. (A text adventure with mild puzzle mechanics)
Interactive Fiction
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You wake up alone. At least, you hope so.
Puzzle
solve puzzles to escape the basement
Interactive Fiction
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Again, and again, and again...
Visual Novel
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An 80s inspired text adventure game that takes place inside a “chat room”.
Visual Novel
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​Kevin writes a novel within a dictionary to seek what home is.
Adventure
Vee and Aiden live together in ‘The Den’, but tonight, a chance discovery is about to change their lives forever…
Interactive Fiction
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A Playable Essay on Design and Community
Puzzle
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Reads you like a book!
Interactive Fiction
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A text-based horror game where you escape your deadly nightmare!
Puzzle
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Measure your work experience!
Interactive Fiction
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Jogo de puzzle e texto onde você é o secretário de uma grande agência de detetives.
Puzzle
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Investigate a group chat on a victim's phone, find clues, fill a report - and try to save someone!
Puzzle
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Role Playing
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A lil game about a lil command line
Puzzle
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Test your correctness in this exercise that has nothing to do with grammar!
Interactive Fiction
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Relevez le défi imposé par votre ami Ozivior de l'académie de magie dans cette fiction interactive.
Interactive Fiction
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