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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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Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Adventure
Lab Assistant
Teach slime to do science in this machine-learning based puzzle game!
Izzy Fiacco
Puzzle
GIF
Indiepocalypse #17
$15
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Detectiveland
$5
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
Home Safety Hotline: Seasonal Worker
$7.99
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
GIF
Indiepocalypse #44
$15
Issue #44 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Pathway
$3
Mini-books within mini-books.
Studio CloudScape
Puzzle
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Indiepocalypse #51
$15
Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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I wish I was
A narrative dungeon-crawler
lulatschia
Puzzle
Escape from Norwood
$5.99
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Singular Works
Adventure
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
GIF
Indiepocalypse #52
$15
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Ghost Artifact Prototype
A game about chatting with your friends.
Taylor Gregory
Visual Novel
Pirateship
$5
Pirate-themed clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
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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One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
Proper Detective 2000
1.50€
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
kernel_dc
Puzzle
Play in browser
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
Hepburn: Takaishitai
A reimagining of classic 90s cult horror games.
emmahallows
GIF
Terminal Town
Mysterious command line tools
AndyMakes
Puzzle
Stranded 2 - DRM Free Version
$3.99
Stranded again! The adventure continues
jimjamsgames
Adventure
PEASANTS IN A DUNGEON
Lodomo
Interactive Fiction
GENBA no Kizuna
$24.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
Love Mystery Club
$1
This game is based on the theme of love & light reasoning.
zedraxlo
Visual Novel
Airwaves
Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
cathode radiator
Visual Novel
Projeto: ENIGMA
Become a spy and try to unravel mysteries and save the world in this story driven puzzle and detective game
StellarFox Studio
Puzzle
Spelly Cat
Cast Spells by unscrambling words
BrknFixie
Puzzle
Ginger
​Kevin writes a novel within a dictionary to seek what home is.
KevinDu
Adventure
Hex Phase
Explosive hexagonal visual fx novel
Hexmin
Visual Novel
Transformation pursuit
A Transformation game based on trivial pursuit
icarue
Puzzle
GIF
Start With Nothing
Start with "nothing" and grasp "victory" by moving letters around.
rubyleehs
Puzzle
Play in browser
Grave Walk
Text-based Horror RPG
deepHourSamurai
Role Playing
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