Mouse & Milquetoast - Modern-World Games With a Timid Protagonist - an IFDB Poll

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In some games, you play a brave hero, or a cynical crime-fighter, or a cunning robber. In others, you play an artificial mind, an alien, or an animal. In many, you play nobody in particular, just an average person of some kind, doing a job or falling accidentally into comedy or drama. But in some games, you play something below that, characters who dwell in the ordinary world but are markedly and deliberately below ordinary: characterized as timid, anxious or miserable, sometimes painfully straitlaced or finicky, often cowed or dazzled by the opposite sex, overborne by superiors, or limited by self-doubt or even self-loathing. This is their poll.

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Rameses, by Stephen Bond
7 votes
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Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian
5 votes
"In this game you..." [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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Violet, by Jeremy Freese
3 votes
(No comment) [+]... "The PC is a..." [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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Episode in the Life of an Artist, by Peter Eastman
2 votes
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Fear, by Chuan-Tze Teo
1 vote
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The Story of Mr. P, by Hannes
1 vote
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Nightfall, by Eric Eve
1 vote
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Couch of Doom, by Megan Moser and Margaret Moser
1 vote
"The PC is too..." [+]...

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BiCon, by rach
1 vote
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The Blind House, by Amanda Allen
1 vote
"The PC is so..." [+]...

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Monday, 16:30, by Alexander "Mordred" Andonov
1 vote
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Aisle, by Sam Barlow
1 vote
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The Mulldoon Legacy, by Jon Ingold
1 vote
"Cowardly in a way that affects what you can do" [+]...

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Suicide, by Dan Doyle III
1 vote
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The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir
1 vote
"The PC..." [+]...

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Freedom, by Anonymous
1 vote
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