"Weird and Eerie" interactive fiction - an IFDB Poll

I’m reading and really enjoying The Weird and the Eerie, by critic Mark Fisher. In this book, Fisher explores the sense of something’s being simultaneously unsettling and fascinating. “Weird” and “eerie,” according to Fisher, are the feelings you get when, in World on a Wire, Stiller realizes that what he thought was the “real world” is actually a simulation controlled by a “realer” world; or when, in Mulholland Drive, Rebekah Del Rio collapses in the middle of singing “Crying,” but we continue to hear her singing. Brian Eno’s Ambient 4: On Land, with its restless soundscape evoking the Suffolk of Eno’s childhood, is eerie; as is Picnic at Hanging Rock (both the novel and the movie), with its intimation of an “outside” that can only be accessed through delirium.

What games are weird and eerie to you?

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	Shade, by Andrew Plotkin 5 votes Vote for this game anonymously

	You are Standing at a Crossroads, by Astrid Dalmady 3 votes Vote for this game anonymously

	Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor) 3 votes Vote for this game anonymously

	my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz 2 votes Vote for this game anonymously

	One Way Ticket, by Vitalii Blinov 2 votes Vote for this game anonymously

	Defrosted, by Riyadth 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously

	Home Open, by Emily Boegheim 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously

	Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously

	Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously

	we, the remainder, by Charm Cochran 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously

	The good people, by Pseudavid 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously

	Building, by Poster 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously

	Eidolon, by A.D. Jansen 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously

	HUNTING UNICORN, by Chandler Groover 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously

	Red Door Yellow Door, by Charm Cochran 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously

	Skulljhabit, by Porpentine 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously

	Tethered, by Linus Åkesson 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously

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Poll created on March 19, 2023