Games with amusing deaths - an IFDB Poll
by Andrew Schultz
RSS FeedLots of games have one amusing death, but what games best take the concept and run with it? These deaths could be nudges on messing something up, or even better, or even a nice reward for a reader who is playing attention and notices a detail, or something in the AMUSING section.
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| Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle, by David Dyte, Steve Bernard, Dan Shiovitz, Iain Merrick, Liza Daly, John Cater, Ola Sverre Bauge, J. Robinson Wheeler, Jon Blask, Dan Schmidt, Stephen Granade, Rob Noyes, and Emily Short 3 votes "Well, obviously." [+]"Well, obviously." --Sam Kabo Ashwell... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --MathBrush... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol...  Vote for this game | |
| A Tale of the Cave, by Snoother 2 votes "Learn By Death-Death By Bad Poetry" [+]"Learn By Death-Death By Bad Poetry: 15 minute game, a humorous takeoff of Zork dungeon trolling. Death is required and not forewarned. Punishment is inflicted by poetic license." ( ) --dosgamer... "I know it's a bit..." [+]"I know it's a bit audacious to vote for your own game, but the whole gameplay design for this is learn-by-death as presented using William McGonagall's hilariously bad prose." --Snoother... Andrew Schultz says: I am now happier for having learned of William McGonagall. I still don't know how he stacks up with Amanda Ros McKitrick, but I am glad to know of them both. Vote for this game | |
| Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross 2 votes "The Barbarian is ... not wise." [+]"The Barbarian is ... not wise." --Ghalev... "Your idiotic..." [+]"Your idiotic death is a pretty regular occurrence." ( - Full review) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... Vote for this game | |
| Under, In Erebus, by Brian Rapp 2 votes "So many ways to die, implemented lovingly. (The Cyclops leads to at least one great one.)" [+]"So many ways to die, implemented lovingly. (The Cyclops leads to at least one great one.)" --matt w (Matt Weiner)... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Save the Date, by Chris Cornell 2 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --verityvirtue... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --OverThinking... Vote for this game | |
| One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine 2 votes "VORACIOUS LAUNDRY..." [+]"VORACIOUS LAUNDRY HAMPER." --Sam Kabo Ashwell... "A building with..." [+]"A building with teeth. And a digestive tract. And a- well you get the idea." ( ) --Kinetic Mouse Car... Vote for this game | |
| Inhumane, by Andrew Plotkin 2 votes "My favorite Plotkin game. Take that as you will." [+]"My favorite Plotkin game. Take that as you will." --jcompton... "The entire..." [+]"The entire purpose of the game is to run into a set of insanely circuitous death-traps, which sometimes require more effort to set off than to avoid." --Christina Nordlander... Vote for this game | |
| Suveh Nux, by David Fisher 2 votes "Suveh Nux is..." [+]"Suveh Nux is great about making it hard to die accidentally - but with a bit of determination, it's possible to find quite a few ridiculous and entertaining ways to off the PC." ( ) --Emily Boegheim... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Obituario, by Santiago Eximeno 1 vote "The main point is to kill the PC in darkly humorous ways" [+]"The main point is to kill the PC in darkly humorous ways" ( ) --IFforL2... Vote for this game | |
| Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky 1 vote "Sidekick Demise!" [+]"Sidekick Demise!: Your faithful sidekick, Trent (or Tiffany) dies amusingly and repeatedly throughout the game (and then returns with yet another tale of how he/she actually escaped what appeared to be certain doom)." ( ) --Ghalev... Andrew Schultz says: Oh man I forgot about this. This is probably my favorite part of the game. Vote for this game | |
| You Will Select a Decision, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy 1 vote "Has a plentiful amount of funny and absurd death scenes between the two books." [+]"Has a plentiful amount of funny and absurd death scenes between the two books.: I come back to these pretty regularly and nearly always discover a new droll way to die." ( ) --zylla... Vote for this game | |
| Dirk, by Andrew Schultz 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Floating Info... Vote for this game | |
| Textfire Golf, by Adam Cadre 1 vote "Every ending is..." [+]"Every ending is entertaingly dreadful." ( ) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... Vote for this game | |
| Vainsville, by n-n 1 vote "No spoiler." [+]"No spoiler." ( ) --IFforL2... Vote for this game | |
| Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin 1 vote "Gameplay relies..." [+]"Gameplay relies on your willingness to sacrifice many iterations of your character." ( - Full review) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... Vote for this game | |
| Slasher Swamp, by Robot 1 vote "The brilliantly..." [+]"The brilliantly terrible, utterly unfair deaths are the best thing about this." ( ) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... Vote for this game | |
| Hinterlands: Marooned!, by Cody Gaisser 1 vote "Stranded on an..." [+]"Stranded on an island somewhere on an alien planet. Alone. With a strange hungry looking creature." --Kinetic Mouse Car... Vote for this game | |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry 1 vote "The death scenes near the end of the story are very ghastly and descriptive" [+]"The death scenes near the end of the story are very ghastly and descriptive: Here are just two examples. You can fail to get out of the "maze of twisty little passages" in the paper mill, or stand on the altar and play the right notes on the flute." ( - Full review) --mjhayes... Vote for this game | |
| Les espions ne meurent jamais, by Hugo Labrande 1 vote "The whole game is about dying." [+]"The whole game is about dying.: Though, you might be extremelly unlucky and find the solution at first try. ;p" ( ) --Fabien Vidal... Vote for this game | |
| Good Grub!, by Damon L. Wakes 1 vote "Perfect comic timing!" [+]"Perfect comic timing!: This came right out of the blue and made me laugh out loud" --Wynter... Vote for this game | |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson 1 vote "Many fun deaths, especially via the rods" [+]"Many fun deaths, especially via the rods: Trying rods on yourself, changing Planck's constant, and all of the mascot-related deaths." ( - Full review) --MathBrush... Vote for this game | |
| Ansible, by Jacques Frechet 1 vote "@@@ CONNECTION LOST @@@" [+]"@@@ CONNECTION LOST @@@" ( ) --Doug Orleans... Vote for this game | |