"Weird and Eerie" interactive fiction - an IFDB Poll
by Dawn Sueoka
RSS FeedI’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?
| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin 4 votes  Vote for this game anonymously | |
| You are Standing at a Crossroads, by Astrid Dalmady 3 votes Vote for this game anonymously | |
| Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor) 2 votes Vote for this game anonymously | |
| Defrosted, by Riyadth 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously | |
| Home Open, by Emily Boegheim 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously | |
| The good people, by Pseudavid 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously | |
| Building, by Poster 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously | |
| Eidolon, by A.D. Jansen 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously | |
| HUNTING UNICORN, by Chandler Groover 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously | |
| Skulljhabit, by Porpentine 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously | |
| Tethered, by Linus Åkesson 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously | |
| One Way Ticket, by Vitalii Blinov 1 vote Vote for this game anonymously | |