Hello,
I've got a vague memory of turned-based puzzle game that I've been searching for a while, but it's hard to put into words what I'm looking for in a search engine. I was playing this game when I was a little kid (~2004) and I think it was on a (DOS?) computer that required only keyboard to use.
In this game I would be looking from above (on kind of like on a chessboard with many more squares, but those squares might have not been directly outlined and visible) and I would be going through rooms that would pose a certain logical challenge - you were threatened by some kind of entities that moved on the board, if you moved forward (which I assume was 1 square) they would also move 1 forward in a direction in attempt to catch you. In some rooms there would also be a puzzle. Colors of those rooms would change (in between stages?). These rooms were connected, you could go one back and one forward freely, they weren't levels that would end, you could walk to the start if you wanted to. Rooms would be connected to multiple other rooms, you could choose to which room you can go (it wasn't linear, one by one). The rooms were fairly big (meaning it wasn't a 5x5 board, more like 15x15 possibly more - again the squares werent directly outlined I think).
Examples:
I remember a room where there would be levers on right side of a room that had to be manipulated - these levers opened doors on left side of the room, where there would be entities behind walls and you had to manoeuvre in a way that would not let them out while opening way out of that room for yourself.
I also remember a room where you would be completely stormed by those entities - you would appear in middle of a room and they would be everywhere around.
I dont exactly remember how my character or how the entities looked like, but it's possible they were just some kind of dots. Please let me know if you have any ideas,
Thanks!
Turn-based (puzzle) game
Turn-based (puzzle) game
Something makes me think of ZZT with this turn-based description, enemies moving when you did and simple top-down graphics. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZT