"Weird and Eerie" interactive fiction - an IFDB Poll

by Dawn Sueoka
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I’m reading and really enjoying The Weird and the Eerie, by critic Mark Fisher. In this book, Fisher explores the sense of something’s being simultaneously unsettling and fascinating. “Weird” and “eerie,” according to Fisher, are the feelings you get when, in World on a Wire, Stiller realizes that what he thought was the “real world” is actually a simulation controlled by a “realer” world; or when, in Mulholland Drive, Rebekah Del Rio collapses in the middle of singing “Crying,” but we continue to hear her singing. Brian Eno’s Ambient 4: On Land, with its restless soundscape evoking the Suffolk of Eno’s childhood, is eerie; as is Picnic at Hanging Rock (both the novel and the movie), with its intimation of an “outside” that can only be accessed through delirium.

What games are weird and eerie to you?

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Shade, by Andrew Plotkin
5 votes


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You are Standing at a Crossroads, by Astrid Dalmady
3 votes


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Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor)
3 votes


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my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz
2 votes


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One Way Ticket, by Vitalii Blinov
2 votes


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Defrosted, by Riyadth
1 vote


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Home Open, by Emily Boegheim
1 vote


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Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover
1 vote


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Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight)
1 vote


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we, the remainder, by Charm Cochran
1 vote


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The good people, by Pseudavid
1 vote


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Building, by Poster
1 vote


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Eidolon, by A.D. Jansen
1 vote


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HUNTING UNICORN, by Chandler Groover
1 vote


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Red Door Yellow Door, by Charm Cochran
1 vote


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Skulljhabit, by Porpentine
1 vote


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Tethered, by Linus Åkesson
1 vote


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