"Camp" Games - an IFDB Poll

Games which have, or might be considered to have, a camp aesthetic or sense of humor.

"Camp is a certain mode of aestheticism. It is one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon. That way, the way of Camp, is not in terms of beauty, but in terms of the degree of artifice, of stylization."

"Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the "off," of things-being-what-they-are-not."

- Susan Sontag, "Notes on "Camp"".

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	Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky 7 votes "Camp Games Begin here" [+]"Camp Games Begin here: This the mother of camp, with it's garish setting, extreme physical attributes of characters and the way the game knowingly winks at it all. I think John Waters would love Leather Goddesses." --PNervous... "A Genre-Defining Classic" [+]"A Genre-Defining Classic: Most campy games will include cheesy dialogue, cliche plots and characters, and ludicrous puzzles. Leather Goddesses of Phobos has all of those plus a 3D comic book and a scratch-n-sniff card. It's Steve Meretzky at his zaniest." () --Greg Frost... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Ghalev... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Pinstripe... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --The Defiant... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Sobol... (No comment) [+](No comment) --House on a Tree Studios... Vote for this game

	Downtown Tokyo, Present Day, by John Kean 2 votes "Takes place in large part in the world of Monster Movies - camp heaven." [+]"Takes place in large part in the world of Monster Movies - camp heaven.: There's also a very interesting split between the "real" PC - the man watching the movie - and the "fake" PC, who is starring in it." --Pinstripe... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... Vote for this game

	Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard 2 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --e.peach... Vote for this game

	Heroine's Mantle, by Andy Phillips 1 vote "Cheesy superhero..." [+]"Cheesy superhero camp." --baywoof... Vote for this game

	Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus, by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sam Kabo Ashwell... Vote for this game

	Reconciling Mother, by Plone Glenn 1 vote "Committed to the bit" [+]"Committed to the bit: Takes itself very seriously, with over-the-top prose and tons of little details. Lack of conventional gameplay implementation draws attention to assumptions that we all take for granted in parser games. This game is somehow epic and trivial at the same time." () --rec53... Vote for this game

	Gilded: The Lily and the Cage, by John Evans 1 vote "An RPG-like game..." [+]"An RPG-like game in which the party does nothing much except flirt with each other before disbanding, and everything is rendered in glitter-covered Technicolour. The design is ridiculously overambitious and fails in entertainingly over-the-top ways." ( - Full review) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... Vote for this game

	Renegade Brainwave, by J. J. Guest 1 vote "Inspired by the..." [+]"Inspired by the movies of Edward D. Wood Jr..." --J. J. Guest... Vote for this game

	Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective", by C. E. Forman, Matt Barringer, Graeme Cree, and Stuart Moore 1 vote "MST3K adapted to the IF format" [+]"MST3K adapted to the IF format" --Molly... Vote for this game

	Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort, by Tiberius Thingamus 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) --DB... Vote for this game

	Encyclopedia Fuckme and the Case of the Vanishing Entree, by Anna Anthropy 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... Vote for this game

	Varicella, by Adam Cadre 1 vote "The first game to come to mind. The protagonist is Oscar Wilde meets Niccolo Machiavelli." [+]"The first game to come to mind. The protagonist is Oscar Wilde meets Niccolo Machiavelli." --Pinstripe... Vote for this game

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Poll created on April 15, 2012