NPC-less Exploration - an IFDB Poll

Supposedly one of IFs strengths is for exploring places with few other people, often abandoned places, but I can't think of many works which have zero NPCs and consist of a lot of exploration. Usually there's at least one NPC, or the exploration might be quite limited (single room games for example). Can you help?

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	Babel, by Ian Finley 6 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sam Kabo Ashwell... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Victor Gijsbers... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Molly... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --tekket... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Christina Nordlander... "An empty research..." [+]"An empty research facility in the arctic. Just you...and flashbacks." () --Kinetic Mouse Car... Vote for this game

	Bronze, by Emily Short 3 votes "As the Beast spends the whole game unconscious I think this qualifies" [+]"As the Beast spends the whole game unconscious I think this qualifies" --Dannii... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --E.K.... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Kinetic Mouse Car... Vote for this game

	Glowgrass, by Nate Cull 2 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sam Kabo Ashwell... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Ghalev... Vote for this game

	Metamorphoses, by Emily Short 2 votes "Exploration and..." [+]"Exploration and experimentation in a brooding, uninhabited world." --Christina Nordlander... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... Vote for this game

	Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short 2 votes "Technical..." [+]"Technical disqualification, perhaps, but only in the endgame." () --Sam Kabo Ashwell... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Victor Gijsbers... Vote for this game

	The Moonlit Tower, by Yoon Ha Lee 1 vote "Though the..." [+]"Though the game's set in a fairly small area, exploration plays a big part in it (especially exploration in the sense of figuring out how stuff works)." ( - Full review) --Molly... Vote for this game

	Pathway to Destruction, by Richard Otter 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) --Richard Otter... Vote for this game

	Infidel, by Michael Berlyn 1 vote "Unless my memory..." [+]"Unless my memory is completely deceiving me, this has no npcs at all. Plenty of exploring the ancient pyramid, though. " --Ferret From Hell... Vote for this game

	Inevitable, by Kathleen M. Fischer as Timothy Lawrence Heinrich 1 vote "There are..." [+]"There are flashbacks and memories, but the gameplay is just you in an empty city of alien temples." --Kinetic Mouse Car... Vote for this game

	The Forest House, by Seciden Mencarde 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --DB... Vote for this game

	The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott 1 vote "One might quibble..." [+]"One might quibble over whether this counts as an exploration game, since the map is constrained to a linear path. But I think it's in the spirit of the thing." --Sam Kabo Ashwell... Vote for this game

	Colossal Cave Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods 1 vote "The grandfather..." [+]"The grandfather of them all. A massive cave system to explore, and NPCs are mostly limited to enemies or other obstacles to overcome." --Christina Nordlander... Vote for this game

	Timeout in the Wasteland, by Feneric 1 vote "MILD SPOILERS!..." [+]"MILD SPOILERS! You live in your small fenced off base in an empty apocalyptic setting. Desert stretches for miles and there is no NPC in sight (unless you wander away too far at night, but that ends the game). " () --Kinetic Mouse Car... Vote for this game

	Dunnet, by Ron Schnell 1 vote "A world newly devoid of all life except for a bear" [+]"A world newly devoid of all life except for a bear: The game has a strongly melancholy feeling as you go through the various buildings and realize you're completely alone. What's worse is that it seems not to have been depopulated for very long. There's no explanation as to why, so use your imagination." --mjhayes... Vote for this game

	Moments Out of Time, by L. Ross Raszewski 1 vote "Has some NPCs, but..." [+]"Has some NPCs, but...: The whole point of the game is to avoid them. I was looking this game up for something else when I remembered the existence of this poll." --Molly... Vote for this game

	The Storm, by Stephane F. 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) --Stephane F.... Vote for this game

Is there another game that you think should be on this list? Just fill in the title of a game you'd like to vote for.

Poll created on September 2, 2012