"Ed Wood" Games - an IFDB Poll

I'm looking exquisitely bad games. Games with warped aesthetics and worldviews far removed from consensus reality. Games that are, in the words of Michael Martin, "exactly good enough that I had to keep going to see what it did next".

This poll is for games which stand on the fine line between warped genius and total idiocy. The merely mediocre need not apply.

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	Press [Escape] to Save, by Mark Jones 4 votes "Fantastically..." [+]"Fantastically warped writing." () --Emily Short... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Juhana... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Merk... (No comment) [+](No comment) --baf... Vote for this game

	Reconciling Mother, by Plone Glenn 4 votes "Bizarre, Unstructured Mess" [+]"Bizarre, Unstructured Mess: Incomprehensible plot, horrible use of English, programming errors. I will miss the several hours of my life wasted on this game." () --DallasBrianK... "A mishmash of ideas that don't fit together." [+]"A mishmash of ideas that don't fit together.: But the detail in the writing makes it memorable." --Merk... "This was the second IF game I ever played. It's a miracle it didn't turn me off IF altogether." [+]"This was the second IF game I ever played. It's a miracle it didn't turn me off IF altogether." --Tortoiseshell Bat... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --rec53... Vote for this game

	wHen mAchines aTtack, by Mark Jones 3 votes "Sprawling,..." [+]"Sprawling, stilted, inexplicable." --murphy_slaw... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Merk... (No comment) [+](No comment) --sushabye... Vote for this game

	Cattus Atrox, by David Cornelson 3 votes "Twisted and largely disliked. Fits the criteria well I think." [+]"Twisted and largely disliked. Fits the criteria well I think." () --madducks... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Wade Clarke... "Lions!" [+]"Lions!" () --deathbytroggles... Vote for this game

	Detective, by Matt Barringer 2 votes ""Good" enough to get the MST treatment" [+]""Good" enough to get the MST treatment" () --Nusco... (No comment) [+](No comment) --rec53... Vote for this game

	Acid Whiplash, by Ryan Stevens and Cody Sandifer 2 votes "A madman gets interviewed." [+]"A madman gets interviewed.: I basically recommend the entire works of our very own Mr. Celsius, but this stands out as his most deranged." --Pinstripe... "The most humorous but flawed game out there." [+]"The most humorous but flawed game out there." () --Mark Jones... Vote for this game

	Kallisti, by James Mitchelhill 1 vote "Spectacularly, lauughably awful." [+]"Spectacularly, lauughably awful." ( - Full review) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... Vote for this game

	Chaos, by John Barker 1 vote ""A void devoid of null & full of nothing"" [+]""A void devoid of null & full of nothing"" ( - Full review) --Audiart... Vote for this game

	Gathered In Darkness, by Dr. Froth 1 vote "Huge, and actually capable puzzle design will keep you going through some truly unfortunate writing" [+]"Huge, and actually capable puzzle design will keep you going through some truly unfortunate writing" --Michael Martin... Vote for this game

	Slacker X, by The Velvet Jester, Smoke Dog, and Wormy Jurmy 1 vote "I have to love..." [+]"I have to love how almost every major game mechanic is ripped from the Inform 6 Designer's Manual." --Daniel Lackey... 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 March 8, 2009