Games You Return To - an IFDB Poll

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What games do you find yourself revisiting from time to time, games that have proven to be a kind of comfort-food of text adventuring, the warm old socks of parser and puzzle, the socks-full-of-comfort-food of overextended metaphor? What games do you enjoy coming back to, now and then?

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Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry
4 votes
"It is probably one of the greatest horror and longest IF there is." [+]... "Basically, this is the game I wish I had written." [+]... "I replay this..." [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows
3 votes
"Based around a single puzzle that I love solving over and over" [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty
3 votes
"Every couple of years ..." [+]... "I wish I had a working copy of this to return to!" [+]... "I enjoy playing the same story file across multiple interpreters" [+]...

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Photopia, by Adam Cadre
3 votes
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky
2 votes
"Baby-Bird Bond I" [+]... "I still have to solve it" [+]...

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Changes, by David Given
2 votes
"Required playing..." [+]... "Bittersweet and..." [+]...

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Metamorphoses, by Emily Short
2 votes
"Large amounts of..." [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen
2 votes
"It's fun to just..." [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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Galatea, by Emily Short
2 votes
(No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin
1 vote
"Something about..." [+]...

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The Hobbit, by Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler
1 vote
"Still fascinates" [+]...

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Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs
1 vote
"Baby-Bird Bond II" [+]...

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The Axe of Kolt [2014 ADRIFT version], by Larry Horsfield
1 vote
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Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
1 vote
"So much to explore" [+]...

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Pogoman GO!, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman
1 vote
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Aisle, by Sam Barlow
1 vote
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Best of Three, by Emily Short
1 vote
"Ironically comforting" [+]...

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The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
1 vote
"After some time,..." [+]...

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Varicella, by Adam Cadre
1 vote
"The writing and..." [+]...

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The Djinni Chronicles, by J. D. Berry
1 vote
"Something in the..." [+]...

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