The most underrated game you've authored - an IFDB Poll

Interpret "under-rated" however that means to you. Perhaps it's one that's simply not played very much for whatever reason. Or it's a game you consider flawed but still worth playing, or an early effort that you are fond of.

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	Nemesis Macana, by Herman Schudspeer, Victor Gijsbers 1 vote "I'm proud of..." [+]"I'm proud of the language, the essay, the idea... it may be a small game, but I love it. Releasing it under a pseudonym outside of any competition didn't do much for its popularity, however." --Victor Gijsbers... Vote for this game

	Dr. Sourpuss Is Not A Choice-Based Game, by P.B. Parjeter 1 vote "I stand by the point of the game--making choices that are only about what you hear, not what happens; BUT..." [+]"I stand by the point of the game--making choices that are only about what you hear, not what happens; BUT...: critics were right that I made the mistake of using lots of repetitious links, which were annoying & overshadowed that those links could often be ignored" --P. B. Parjeter... Vote for this game

	A Roiling Original, by Andrew Schultz 1 vote "Release 4 will be even more underrated!" [+]"Release 4 will be even more underrated!: The first few releases had wobbly puzzles, but I'm proud of the work I put in to fix them and the bug, along with the silly niche jokes I sprinkled all over. I think I've made a cohesive storyline. And, well, I think it's pretty cool to appreciate as a concept even if you don't have time to play it." --Andrew Schultz... Vote for this game

	If I Wasn't Shy, by Joey Jones 1 vote "Timed events and hidden win condition" [+]"Timed events and hidden win condition: There's a lot of internal story-telling in the food items and a hidden wincon which most people missed." --Joey Jones... Vote for this game

	Monk by the Sea, by Elizabeth Decoste 1 vote "This is my first..." [+]"This is my first ever IF, and I"m proud of it" () --Elizabeth DeCoste... Vote for this game

	Starry Seeksorrow, by Caleb Wilson (as Ayla Rose) 1 vote "My most consciously "designed" game. I'm proud of the weird garden theme." [+]"My most consciously "designed" game. I'm proud of the weird garden theme." --Caleb Wilson... Vote for this game

	It, by Emily Boegheim 1 vote "I think a lot of..." [+]"I think a lot of people didn't realise how much It branches (partly because of my design mistakes, I admit) and found it shallower than it really is. I was always unnecessarily coy about how many endings there are, but there are 25 or 30, including the dead ends." --Emily Boegheim... Vote for this game

	Portcullis, by Robin Johnson 1 vote "Released in a New..." [+]"Released in a New Years minicomp. It's styled as a retro castle-crawler, but it has some plot twists, multiple solutions to most puzzles, and three different endings." --Robin Johnson... Vote for this game

	We Are the Firewall, by Anya Johanna DeNiro 1 vote "this is my second Twine game, and my longest at 20K words." [+]"this is my second Twine game, and my longest at 20K words.: The story is kind of all over the map, but I'm pleased with how it experiments with cycling narrative and discovery." --Anya Johanna DeNiro... Vote for this game

	swept up, by Harris Powell-Smith 1 vote "Tight and punchy, and I like the run-on-sentence style." [+]"Tight and punchy, and I like the run-on-sentence style." --Harris Powell-Smith... Vote for this game

	Taghairm, by Chandler Groover 1 vote "My best game." [+]"My best game." --CMG... Vote for this game

	Hard Puzzle 3 : Origins, by Ade McT 1 vote "It's really not that hard!" [+]"It's really not that hard!" --Ade Mct... Vote for this game

	In The House of Professor Evil: The HAM HOUSE, by S. John Ross 1 vote "Get some ham. Now." [+]"Get some ham. Now.: I'm still awaiting at least one kind word on the randomized background noises, which I would propose stand among the finest randomized background noises in the entire history of ham-themed parser IF." --Ghalev... Vote for this game

	Halloween Dance, by MathBrush 1 vote "For the conversation system" [+]"For the conversation system: I think the conversation system in this game is worth exploring, but it didn't get much interest. I'm working on a larger one to explore it in more depth." --MathBrush... Vote for this game

	Xanadu - The World's Only Hope, Part 2 - Revenge, by XanMag 1 vote "109 downloads,..." [+]"109 downloads, 134 plays after nine months of work... and I thought I'd be famous by now! =)" --XanMag... Vote for this game

	Look Around the Corner, by Doug Orleans (as Robert Whitlock) 1 vote "A micro-game but..." [+]"A micro-game but I think it's pleasantly psychedelic." --Doug Orleans... Vote for this game

	Yak Shaving for Kicks and Giggles!, by J. J. Guest 1 vote "I think this is..." [+]"I think this is one of my best parser-based games in terms of puzzle construction, but as someone at Sub-Q Magazine recently pointed out to me, it succeeds rather too well at reading like it was written in the bad old days of the 1970s." --J. J. Guest... Vote for this game

Is there another game that you think should be on this list? Just fill in the title of a game you'd like to vote for.

Poll created on May 8, 2016