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If you're looking for a specific kind of IF, you can create a poll to ask other people for recommendations.
"Im looking for some games of more like 30 minute length, that are optimization based. And succeed in pulling it off. If you have some thoughts on length of these games (as in, maximum length or other), leave a comment."
by alyshkalia - 19 votes for 16 games, last vote on December 5, 2023; created on November 28, 2023"Collecting games that either: have "rat" in the title; have rats/a rat playing a significant role; or have a rat as the PC."
by Beable - 12 votes for 7 games, last vote on November 30, 2023; created on November 25, 2023"I'm looking for games that pretend to be another, older game - sort of like Repeat the Ending and LAKE Adventure - or that contain elements within them that are supposed to play like an older game - like And Then You Come to a House Not..."
by Max Fog - 3 votes for 3 games, last vote on November 29, 2023; created on November 25, 2023"Any game which got awarded high in IFComp that isn't necessarily Merciful or Polite in Zarfian Cruelty Standards. Or at least games that did well in IFComp and have quite strict timing features ..."
by RetroProgressive - 1 vote, last vote on November 24, 2023; created on November 24, 2023"On the big list of insta-kill features that will cause the less patient to completely refuse to consider playing a work, it appears that "needing to eat" is well up there. We are not talking about some game where the object is to..."
by Andrew Schultz - 14 votes for 10 games, last vote on November 10, 2023; created on October 18, 2023"IFComp 2023 had a couple, and they reminded me of another I tested in Shufflecomp. I like having the ability to leave when I want and see what I want. I'm looking specifically for ones with no winning or losing, and ones where you can..."
by Max Fog - 7 votes for 6 games, last vote on November 9, 2023; created on September 6, 2023"I'm looking for a game that uses CCTV cameras (or surveillance of some kind) as an important part of the game."
by Andrew Schultz - 7 votes for 7 games, last vote on November 11, 2023; created on September 4, 2023"I'm interested in works where you have one city or state or country (or city-state) per room. David Welbourn noted that this may apply to a significant sub-area of a work, too, and in this case I'd like to allow Greg Boettcher's Nothing..."
by Andrew Schultz - 8 votes for 7 games, last vote on October 3, 2023; created on September 2, 2023"I played two entries in the Single Choice jam that made very visible references to root beer. Then I realized not many other games did that I could think of. I had one of my own. But given I like root beer much better than Coke or Pepsi,..."
by Andrew Schultz - 3 votes for 3 games, last vote on September 4, 2023; created on September 2, 2023"I'm trying to look away from a noble or ignoble death or, say, Ragnarok, just a "*this is the end (no really)* effect."
by alyshkalia - 6 votes for 6 games, last vote on October 22, 2023; created on August 27, 2023"IF games for two players"
by Kastel - 27 votes for 20 games, last vote on October 31, 2023; created on August 24, 2023by Denk - 12 votes for 10 games, last vote on November 9, 2023; created on August 13, 2023"Any game which has been practically unavailable for a long time for most players but is now again available to play, though there might be differences from the original version."
by Andrew Schultz - 4 votes for 4 games, last vote on November 19, 2023; created on July 30, 2023"I'm looking for--well, anything that does this. Not "you are missing 4 of 5 pieces of the magic sword," but more, it could either be something funny to notice if you really think about it, or it could be something more obviously..."
by Andrew Schultz - 17 votes for 13 games, last vote on October 28, 2023; created on July 30, 2023"The meaning of "deliberately" can be a bit broad, but I'm wondering about cases where an action clearly marked risky or fatal helps you see something or progress, and you would not have otherwise. I'm not thinking so much about where,..."
by David Welbourn - 8 votes for 7 games, last vote on October 16, 2023; created on July 23, 2023"One really cool thing about interactive fiction games is that they don't need to conform to normal physics. Sometimes, a game will let you take an abstract quality from something, as if it was its own object, and use it on something else..."
by Cerfeuil - 33 votes for 20 games, last vote on November 28, 2023; created on June 20, 2023"Games that feature carnivals, fairgrounds, amusement parks, circuses, etc. Of any kind!"
by Malasana - 5 votes for 5 games, last vote on July 6, 2023; created on June 1, 2023"Sunny, light-hearted games that are ideal to play during the warm summer months."
by Marco Innocenti - 28 votes for 21 games, last vote on October 31, 2023; created on May 17, 2023"Vote for parser games (in all of history) that had incredible Wow moments, twists, or whatever made you think for ages or left you seriously amazed. As an example “that moment” in Spider and Web. Please avoid being spoilery as I would..."
by Cygnus - 16 votes for 9 games, last vote on July 22, 2023; created on March 31, 2023"so… you know how savior fair is long and awesome, but also, like, complicated? and.. cruel, as the ratings out it? I think the first thing that goot me INTO IF was anchor head. kinda that difficulty. recently played d’arkun and that was..."
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