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Puzzle

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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Find all the words!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(67 total ratings)
Puzzle
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(117 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Only one Todd has the key that other Todd needs to escape.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(59 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Your friend invites you to his house for a sleepover with a certain set of rules
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(51 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Visual Novel
You are Skynet
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(91 total ratings)
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I will not be just a sacrifice.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(46 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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(you're not alone)
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Puzzle
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A maintenance text adventure
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
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An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A narrative adventure game.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Adventure
Stay a while. Stay forever. Won't you come outside?
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Puzzle
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An ode to text-adventures.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Puzzle
What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Detective noir clickable text adventure
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Adventure
Cooking game but your life is a mess
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
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He couldn't have... could he?
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Adventure
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Interview your housemates, challenge their lies, and catch the resident sausage thief.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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An escape room as a text adventure!
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(39 total ratings)
Puzzle
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challenging word puzzler
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Puzzle
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​A first person dungeon-delving adventure where text and context are everything.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
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Postal secret no longer counts! Short atmospheric puzzle solving for a relaxing evening.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Puzzle
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Test your correctness in this exercise that has nothing to do with grammar!
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A Short, Replayable Text-Based RPG
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Puzzle
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A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Daily murder mysteries. Talk to suspects, detect lies, and accuse the murderer and their motive.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
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Process häxes using our state-of-the-art häx processing terminal
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Puzzle
closed door. feathered fury.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A narrative dungeon-crawler
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Puzzle
The horizon is a haze of polluted ash.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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