Games with amusing deaths - an IFDB Poll
by Andrew Schultz
Lots 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) [+] ... ![]() | |
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. ![]() | |
Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross 2 votes "The Barbarian is ... not wise." [+] ... "Your idiotic..." [+] ... ![]() | |
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) [+] ... ![]() | |
Inhumane, by Andrew Plotkin 2 votes "My favorite Plotkin game. Take that as you will." [+] ... "The entire..." [+] ... ![]() | |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher 2 votes "Suveh Nux is..." [+] ... (No comment) [+] ... ![]() | |
Obituario, by Santiago Eximeno 1 vote "The main point is to kill the PC in darkly humorous ways" [+] ... ![]() | |
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. ![]() | |
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." [+] ... ![]() | |
Save the Date, by Chris Cornell 1 vote (No comment) [+] ... ![]() | |
Dirk, by Andrew Schultz 1 vote (No comment) [+] ... ![]() | |
Textfire Golf, by Adam Cadre 1 vote "Every ending is..." [+] ... ![]() | |
Vainsville, by n-n 1 vote "No spoiler." [+] ... ![]() | |
Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin 1 vote "Gameplay relies..." [+] ... ![]() | |
Slasher Swamp, by Robot 1 vote "The brilliantly..." [+] ... ![]() | |
Les espions ne meurent jamais, by Hugo Labrande 1 vote "The whole game is about dying." [+] ... ![]() | |
Curses!, by Graham Nelson 1 vote "Many fun deaths, especially via the rods" [+] ... ![]() | |
One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine 1 vote "VORACIOUS LAUNDRY..." [+] ... ![]() | |
Ansible, by Jacques Frechet 1 vote "@@@ CONNECTION LOST @@@" [+] ... ![]() | |