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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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Quick Maths
Fly your Spaceship to the other side through mathematical functions!
Hexopus
Puzzle
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Unwritten Fate
iBum
Puzzle
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Tessa Blackwood's Crime Time
Help Tessa solve Bell Farm's mystery while you complete your first true crime podcast!
thistlestudios
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
TypeIdle
Improve your typing speed, unlock achievements, and upgrade buildings to boost your keystroke production!
santtuz112
Play in browser
Military Command
In this 2D text adventure, Lead two elite squads through intense, unpredictable military missions.
Mustapha Jobe
Simulation
Phenomena
Discover the truth among FBI files about alien encounters...
jhuenem2
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Origin of Adlers’ curse
Lucas Adler is dead. His Notion reveals a family mystery: every Adler man dies strangely. Can you uncover the truth?
Salomesquinerie
Puzzle
Directory Hedgehogs - Demo
Single level demo of console app game
SleepyHedgehog
Puzzle
Error - A Text-Based Puzzling Adventure
All that's left is a computer but answers won't come that easy.
DinosourKisses
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Astral Decoder
Decipher lost alien mail, find the right stamps, and deliver letters across planets, so nothing goes wrong!
Bas
Puzzle
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Words of Despair
A text-based survival puzzle where every word counts. Can you craft the perfect message before it’s too late?
nuuunu
Puzzle
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Murph's
A Severance inspired roguelike where you must learn how to escape the mysterious company you work for.
eef
Puzzle
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Catastrophic Reading
Interpret the cards and give them proper meaning to help your customers with their issues, and prevent a terrible fate.
VelenGeth
Puzzle
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Where are my keys?
Find your keys before you miss your bus.
Uncle Laptop
Puzzle
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Trapped in my phone
A 10-minute text game with no sounds or graphics. A starter game made by an old man.
Uncle Laptop
Puzzle
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12 Word Searches
Find all the words!
Playcebo
Puzzle
The House
A Psychological Horror Text Adventure
Jake C - Surreal Scripts
Interactive Fiction
TIME
ciarannn
Puzzle
Play in browser
Jogo da Forca Multiplayer
Alexsander Gutierrez Gonçalves
Educational
Play in browser
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
xyWords - Text Mode Edition
Designed for MS-DOS based computers without graphics capabilities - or DOSBOX :-)
4am Programming
Puzzle
//Project-WINTER
a web based simulation game about an ancient ai buried under the ice
mcjdh
Simulation
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Dream World Logic
Trapped in a dream world, you are left wondering how to escape and encounter simple scenarios with unexpected solutions.
GamerLetter
Interactive Fiction
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SmartHome
An Adventure Game
steviep
Puzzle
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Temporal Turmoil
Can you navigate the time loop to find the only path of survival?
Axelf
Interactive Fiction
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Type Help
The Unsolvable Mystery
William Rous
Puzzle
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Look Ahead
A game where you list your steps one by one
Cs3306n
Puzzle
Truth
Work for the media of an oppressive government, spreading lies, or truth
Will Andrew
Puzzle
INDUSTRIAL DREAMS
The DEMO for INDUSTRIAL DREAMS
Calcifi
Puzzle
Oasis: Part One
A Darius Vöd Adventure
WiL
Puzzle
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La llave
Una aventura conversacional típica.
PishuGames
Adventure
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Brainfuck Challenge DEMO
LyricSeraph
Puzzle
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Murder Drones: The First Encounter
Text adventure video game set before the series' events.
ALIansEN
Interactive Fiction
Feel yourself being quietly drawn
vespa_rotta
Puzzle
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Key From The Stars
A short text-based puzzle-adventure game
TomeOught
Puzzle
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Ultimate Car Logo Guessing Test
Yashaswi Satya
Puzzle
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