Polls with votes for Anchorhead

What game first got you interested in interactive fiction? This may, or may not, be the first IF game you ever played. Respond to this...

Best antagonists - 16 votes for 10 games; created March 23, 2024
A poll by OverThinking

IF has a tradition of pitting the player against the environment or their circumstances. I'm looking for something a little more...

Parser games with WOW moments. - 31 votes for 21 games; created May 17, 2023
A poll by Marco Innocenti

Vote for parser games (in all of history) that had incredible Wow moments, twists, or whatever made you think for ages or left you...

There seems to be a LOT of games where you just.. explore hidden secrets in mansions, or similar. some of them have a plot, some of 'em...

Games with flavor text - 9 votes for 7 games; created February 23, 2023
A poll by OverThinking

I'm looking for games where background events and flavor text appear frequently, independently of the player's actions. Maybe there's...

Big, impossible houses - 12 votes for 6 games; created January 18, 2023
A poll by OverThinking

Think "House of Leaves" or Aaron Reed's "Subcutanean." "Delightful Wallpaper" doesn't count as, though its map is large and complex, it...

The most enjoyable Z-code games - 74 votes for 28 games; created June 16, 2022
A poll by Fredrik Ramsberg

I'd like to compile a list of some of the most enjoyable games available in Z-code format (blorbed or not). Please add games that you...

Highly atmospheric and immersive games - 42 votes for 22 games; created November 14, 2021
A poll by Cryptic Puffin

I'm looking for games with effective use of location, language, etc. to really immerse you in the locale and the story, no matter the...

Games that would work well as a movie - 12 votes for 7 games; created August 17, 2021
A poll by Karl Ove Hufthammer

As a contrast to games with impossible-to-film moments, which games do you think would work well if they were adapted to the big screen,...

Games where the player must draw their own map - 26 votes for 14 games; created March 29, 2021
A poll by Paxton

Ideally these are games whose puzzles/challenges involve the map in some way (hidden connections, layout analysis, &c.) and aren't just...

1–10 of 47 | Next | Show All