Best Choicescript games - an IFDB Poll
by MathBrush
RSS FeedI've only played a few choicescript games, but I loved Creatures Such as We, The Race, and Scarlet Sails. What can you recommend?
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| Tally Ho, by Kreg Segall 6 votes "Be the Jeeves you want to see in the world" [+]"Be the Jeeves you want to see in the world: Honestly Segall's works are one of the only things getting me through quarantine: hilarious hijinks, vast choice, dazzling prose. " ( - Full review) --NMCannon... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Lenox... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Denk... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Laney Berry...  Vote for this game | |
| Hollywood Visionary, by Aaron A. Reed 5 votes "Well designed management game" [+]"Well designed management game: There is a surprising amount of customization and twisty ways through the making of your movie in Red Scare Hollywood." --Hanon Ondricek... "Seduce Greta..." [+]"Seduce Greta Garbo! Get drunk with Orson Welles! Make tough decisions about motion picture production! Navigate the perils of being perceived as Communist in 1950s Hollywood!" ( ) --Emily Boegheim... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sam Kabo Ashwell... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Choice of Robots, by Kevin Gold 5 votes "Incredibly..." [+]"Incredibly ambitious, with a vast scale (the game takes place over 25ish years) and significant branching throughout." ( ) --Emily Boegheim... (No comment) [+](No comment) --somestrangecircus... "Full of big..." [+]"Full of big choices and lots of branching, nice use of themes, lots of emotion and depth" ( - Full review) --dutchmule... (No comment) [+](No comment) --jakomo... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight, by Heather Albano 4 votes "Vivid and characterful, with great varied branching" [+]"Vivid and characterful, with great varied branching" ( ) --Hannah Powell-Smith... "Expansive story and feels like choices do matter." [+]"Expansive story and feels like choices do matter." --whjohnson22... "It's one of my..." [+]"It's one of my fav Choice of Games" () --MBC... (No comment) [+](No comment) --itsdnoftheworld... Vote for this game | |
| Choice of the Deathless, by Max Gladstone 4 votes "Smart, funny and wildly inventive" [+]"Smart, funny and wildly inventive" ( ) --Hannah Powell-Smith... "Great writing and..." [+]"Great writing and world-building, strong characters, fantastic choice design." () --Emily Boegheim... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... (No comment) [+](No comment) --floraandfauna... Vote for this game | |
| SLAMMED!, by Paolo Chikiamco 4 votes "More character..." [+]"More character development than average for ChoiceScript games, plus a very persuasive insider view of the world of wrestling. (I don't really care about wrestling, but I enjoyed how authentic this felt.)" --Emily Short... "Awesome game -..." [+]"Awesome game - great writing where every moment feels important, and pretty on-the-nose, loving representation of wrestling (tone, situations, and characters are very believable + lots of in-jokes and references)" --dutchmule... (No comment) [+](No comment) --jakomo... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Highlands, Deep Waters, by Fernando B. Neves and Lucas Zaper 4 votes "Lovecraftian adventure and mystery. Embrace the abyssal madness!" [+]"Lovecraftian adventure and mystery. Embrace the abyssal madness!" ( - Full review) --whjohnson22... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --E.K.... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Edo... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --autumnc... Vote for this game | |
| A Midsummer Night's Choice, by Kreg Segall 3 votes "Quite amusing,..." [+]"Quite amusing, and decently long" ( - Full review) --Nathaniel... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Lenox... Vote for this game | |
| Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers 3 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --CMG... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Kinetic Mouse Car... Vote for this game | |
| Choice of the Dragon, by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse 3 votes "The classic that got me into CoG" [+]"The classic that got me into CoG" --Adrao... "Dynamic gameplay,..." [+]"Dynamic gameplay, well-written, and in general all the fun of being a powerful winged killing machine." --Christina Nordlander... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Denk... Vote for this game | |
| Choice of Magics, by Kevin Gold 2 votes "Good writing, and an incredible range of outcomes" [+]"Good writing, and an incredible range of outcomes: This game has one of the most varied set of endings I've seen; many of them are not mutually exclusive, and they often affect each other. The story is fairly simple and linear early on, but then starts to really open up around the halfway point. Plus, the writing is good and fits the world well. Definitely one of the best of the official Choice of Games line. I think it's a great example of how to write a responsive story within the CoG format." --Chris Conley... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Crème de la Crème, by Hannah Powell-Smith 2 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --MathBrush... (No comment) [+](No comment) --autumnc... Vote for this game | |
| The Fog Knows Your Name, by Clio Yun-su Davis 2 votes "Very replayable horror" [+]"Very replayable horror" ( ) --E.K.... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --autumnc... Vote for this game | |
| For Rent: Haunted House, by Gavin Inglis 2 votes "Funnier than expected" [+]"Funnier than expected: This game doesn't beat you over the head with character creation, and lets you play the real-estate agent who has to keep a notorious mansion rented and the tenants happy despite the peripheral horror story that's going on." ( ) --Hanon Ondricek... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --J. J. Guest... Vote for this game | |
| Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road, by Kyle Marquis 2 votes "Kiss! That! Kindred!" [+]"Kiss! That! Kindred!: A darkly complex, surprisingly hilarious romp through Arizona. Top notch writing with full-bodied lore and compelling characters. And you can smooch them." ( - Full review) --NMCannon... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --autumnc... Vote for this game | |
| Scarlet Sails, by Felicity Banks 2 votes "A great pirate romp!" [+]"A great pirate romp!" --Adrao... Vote for this game | |
| A Paradox Between Worlds, by Autumn Chen 1 vote "One of the most..." [+]"One of the most creative uses of ChoiceScript that I have seen so far." ( ) --Kinetic Mouse Car... Vote for this game | |
| Sixth Grade Detective, by Laura Hughes 1 vote "Cute and..." [+]"Cute and heart-warming." ( - Full review) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Choice of Alexandria, by Kevin Gold 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Cannonfire Concerto, by Caleb Wilson 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| The Volunteer Firefighter, by Stefanie Handshaw 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Tokyo Wizard, by Adrao 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) --Adrao... Vote for this game | |
| Stronghold: A Hero's Fate, by Amy Griswold and Jo Graham 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --autumnc... Vote for this game | |
| Welcome to Moreytown, by S. Andrew Swann 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |