Combat puzzle games - an IFDB Poll

by Jeremy Freese
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What I'm looking for are games that have fights that are ostensibly combat, but the solution to winning the fight is really a matter of solving a puzzle.

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Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian
8 votes
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Attack of the Yeti Robot Zombies, by Øyvind Thorsby
3 votes
"Each encounter is..." [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers
3 votes
"Combat-oriented, but impossible to win without a strategy to progress and which order to kill the enemies.(see details)" [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian
3 votes
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Slap That Fish, by Peter Nepstad
2 votes
"Exactly what you're looking for." [+]... "I never got that..." [+]...

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A Crimson Spring, by Robb Sherwin
2 votes
"Many fights are..." [+]... "The health stat..." [+]...

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Heroine's Mantle, by Andy Phillips
1 vote
"Many scenes..." [+]...

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El Día Después, by José Vicente Ruiz
1 vote
"Castilian Spanish zombie combat." [+]...

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TOMBs of Reschette, by Richard Goodness
1 vote
"Most of the..." [+]...

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The Roscovian Palladium, by Ryan Veeder
1 vote
"Technically the..." [+]...

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Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty
1 vote
"Many of the..." [+]...

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The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher
1 vote
(No comment) [+]...

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The Axe of Kolt [8-bit versions], by Larry Horsfield
1 vote
"part 2 and 4 has this sort of combat" [+]...

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Pit of the Condemned, by Matthew Holland
1 vote
"you are just on..." [+]...

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The Little Match Girl 3: The Escalus Manifold, by Ryan Veeder
1 vote
"Combat is a..." [+]...

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4x4 Archipelago, by Agnieszka Trzaska
1 vote
"Fight dragons,..." [+]...

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Shogun, by James Clavell, Dave Lebling
1 vote
"Fight scenes which require brains more than brawn" [+]...

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