Recommended Linguistic Games

Recommendations by E.K.

Good games that use language puzzles, or language itself as the puzzle.

1. Ad Verbum
by Nick Montfort
(2000)
Average member rating: (132 ratings)

2. Counterfeit Monkey
by Emily Short
(2012)
Average member rating: (233 ratings)

3. Earl Grey, by Rob Dubbin and Allison Parrish (2009)
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

4. PataNoir
by Simon Christiansen
(2011)
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

5. For a Change
by Dan Schmidt
(1999)
Average member rating: (113 ratings)

6. The Gostak
by Carl Muckenhoupt
(2001)
Average member rating: (87 ratings)

7. Shuffling Around
by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus)
(2012)
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

8. Threediopolis
by Andrew Schultz
(2013)
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

9. A Roiling Original
by Andrew Schultz
(2013)
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

10. Suveh Nux
by David Fisher
(2007)
Average member rating: (225 ratings)

11. Ferryman's Gate
by Daniel Maycock
(2020)
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

12. Letters from Home
by Roger Firth
(2000)
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

13. Dream Pieces, by Iam Curio (2013)
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

14. In a Manor of Speaking, by Hulk Handsome (2012)
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

15. The CryptoGame
by Manan Singh
(2016)
Average member rating: (1 rating)

16. Elizabeth Hawke's Forever Always, by Iain Merrick (2002)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)