Reply To: Looking for non-action non-arcade recommendations

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Here are some recommendations I crowd-sourced with the ZZT community:

• Ana (2017) – a modern ZZT puzzle game
• Little Square Things (2001) – an older ZZT puzzle game, well regarded back in the day
• Winter (1999) – a classic ZZT puzzle game
• Faux Amis (2018) – a ZZT adventure puzzle game
• Atop the Witch’s Tower (2017) – short narrative story with a few puzzle elements
• When There Is No More Snow (2021) – this is essentially a visual novel written in ZZT.

Due to ZZT’s programming limitations, there are not many “stats games” in the original engine, but I think there are a few made in WiL’s modern fork, Weave. Of course, that isn’t exactly ZZT, but for the sake of completeness (and because it has been catching on over the last few years), I am linking a list here – you might want to check them out at some point as well, even if to see what the same people can do with fewer constraints.