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." [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]...  Vote for this game | |
| A Tale of the Cave, by Snoother 2 votes "Learn By Death-Death By Bad Poetry" [+]... "I know it's a bit..." [+]... 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." [+]... "Your idiotic..." [+]... 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.)" [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Save the Date, by Chris Cornell 2 votes (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine 2 votes "VORACIOUS LAUNDRY..." [+]... "A building with..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Inhumane, by Andrew Plotkin 2 votes "My favorite Plotkin game. Take that as you will." [+]... "The entire..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Suveh Nux, by David Fisher 2 votes "Suveh Nux is..." [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Obituario, by Santiago Eximeno 1 vote "The main point is to kill the PC in darkly humorous ways" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky 1 vote "Sidekick Demise!" [+]... 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." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Dirk, by Andrew Schultz 1 vote (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Textfire Golf, by Adam Cadre 1 vote "Every ending is..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Vainsville, by n-n 1 vote "No spoiler." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin 1 vote "Gameplay relies..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Slasher Swamp, by Robot 1 vote "The brilliantly..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Hinterlands: Marooned!, by Cody Gaisser 1 vote "Stranded on an..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry 1 vote "The death scenes near the end of the story are very ghastly and descriptive" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Les espions ne meurent jamais, by Hugo Labrande 1 vote "The whole game is about dying." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Good Grub!, by Damon L. Wakes 1 vote "Perfect comic timing!" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson 1 vote "Many fun deaths, especially via the rods" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Ansible, by Jacques Frechet 1 vote "@@@ CONNECTION LOST @@@" [+]... Vote for this game | |