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What game first got you interested in IF? (1995–2012)


by dfranke - 13 votes for 11 games, last vote on January 17, 2025; created on December 30, 2024
"What game first got you interested in interactive fiction? This may, or may not, be the first IF game you ever played. Respond to this poll only if you first played the game BETWEEN 1995 and 2012 INCLUSIVE; otherwise, respond to one of..."

Best Beginner Game of All Time (2024 edition)


by MathBrush - 71 votes for 32 games, last vote on January 17, 2025; created on December 28, 2024
"This is a poll for the games that you think would be helpful for people new to IF. You should vote for whatever game(s) you think best answer the question: "My friend is new to IF. Can you recommend a good game for beginners?" There..."

Fictions interactives en français humoristiques et/ou feel-good


by filiaa - 22 votes for 21 games, last vote on January 14, 2025; created on July 10, 2024
"Beaucoup de FI en français abordent des sujets sérieux, éveillent des sentiments difficiles et des émotions fortes. Malgré la grande qualité de ces FI sérieuses et tristes, on recherche parfois quelque chose de plus amusant ou..."

What game first got you interested in IF? (1994 or earlier)


by dfranke - 15 votes for 8 games, last vote on January 13, 2025; created on December 30, 2024
"What game first got you interested in interactive fiction? This may, or may not, be the first IF game you ever played. Respond to this poll only if you first played the game IN 1994 OR PRIOR; otherwise, respond to one of the two other..."

Games with amusement parks/fairgrounds in them


by Cerfeuil - 39 votes for 24 games, last vote on January 11, 2025; created on June 20, 2023
"Games that feature carnivals, fairgrounds, amusement parks, circuses, etc. Of any kind!"

What game first got you interested in IF? (2013–present)


by dfranke - 14 votes for 11 games, last vote on January 11, 2025; created on December 30, 2024
"What game first got you interested in interactive fiction? This may, or may not, be the first IF game you ever played. Respond to this poll only if you first played the game IN 2013 OR LATER; otherwise, respond to one of the two other..."

Games that most resemble an Infocom work


by David Cornelson - 72 votes for 26 games, last vote on January 9, 2025; created on October 10, 2008
"If you've played a game that "feels" like an Infocom game, add it to the list."

Games that focus on sibling relationships


by blue/green - 10 votes for 9 games, last vote on January 8, 2025; created on December 25, 2024
"What are some games that focus on the bond between siblings, or that feature a fair amount of interaction between siblings (more than just a passing mention)?"

Games about Time Travel


by Estrong157 - 37 votes for 25 games, last vote on January 6, 2025; created on June 15, 2016
"more specifically, games with time travel as a gameplay element."

Indie games that are commercial or were commercial at one point


by deathbytroggles - 9 votes for 9 games, last vote on January 5, 2025; created on March 30, 2023
"So I'm not looking for games from the well-known companies like Infocom, Tellarium, Legend, etc. Looking to compile a list of: 1. Games that used to be commercial but no longer (e.g. Once and Future, The Shadow and the Cathedral, 1893)..."

This Is Who We Are


by Sam Kabo Ashwell - 67 votes for 31 games, last vote on January 4, 2025; created on September 12, 2012
"A considerable number of games exist largely as the commentary of the IF community (or some subset of it) upon the medium and the community itself. These works are likely to be befuddling to outsiders, but provide windows onto blah blah..."

Games for Beginners


by WriterBob - 295 votes for 75 games, last vote on January 3, 2025; created on November 11, 2008
"I'm looking for games that are suited for adults who are new to IF. My purpose is to share these games with friends and let them get experience IF without being frustrated by mazes or guess-the-verb issues. Please avoid children's games...."

Canonicity and IF


by juliaofbath - 254 votes for 57 games, last vote on January 2, 2025; created on July 27, 2017
"I'm interested in determining whether or not a clear canon has emerged within the world of IF/hypertext. Of course, there is a clear critical opinion regarding which works belong to this tentative canon, but I'm interested in what..."

Games with misleading titles


by Cendare - 28 votes for 17 games, last vote on January 1, 2025; created on July 17, 2011
"I was thinking about "Nothing But Mazes" and how it, in fact, contains things that aren't mazes. What other games have titles that don't quite reflect what's inside?"

First IF that you have ever played


by BlitzWithGuns - 78 votes for 42 games, last vote on January 1, 2025; created on August 23, 2014
"What is the first IF that you have ever played? The game that made you love the concept of IF?"

Multiple point-of-view characters


by Joan - 44 votes for 30 games, last vote on December 31, 2024; created on April 22, 2024
"Interested in games where you swap between different characters' heads (whether at will or at specific points in the story), not games where a single main character possesses different bodies or games that play with different..."

Up, Up, and Away: IF starring super heroes


by Molly - 23 votes for 14 games, last vote on December 31, 2024; created on October 11, 2012
"It's often been said that super-heroes are a poor fit for IF, given the reliance of the former on flashy, colorful costumes and fights. But let it never be said that some poor bastards didn't try. What are some notable attempts at..."

Games where you can't screw up


by Pinstripe - 77 votes for 41 games, last vote on December 31, 2024; created on March 2, 2009
"Sometimes, when I'm playing a game, I spend more time juggling my save files than I do reading the text. I don't want to have to restart because I picked up the green rod instead of the clay jug (with apologies to Zarf). So I'm looking..."

Games With Extended Underwater Sequences


by Canalboy - 18 votes for 18 games, last vote on December 30, 2024; created on October 24, 2024
"That is games that have immersive (pun intended) sub aqua areas of more than, say ten locations."

Games suitable for children


by Mike Sousa - 92 votes for 37 games, last vote on December 28, 2024; created on October 11, 2008
"My 10 year old twins recently "discovered" IF. They fell in love with Grunk and are asking for more games to play. I've searched BAF and have some ideas, but figured I would give this poll a shot since there are hundreds and hundreds of..."

Best IF Titles


by Fredrik - 203 votes for 68 games, last vote on December 21, 2024; created on February 13, 2011
"No doubt you have played some great games with great titles, or been disappointed to find games with great titles that did not hold up to expectations. What are the best titles of IF? They can be funny, elegant, evocative, or whatever..."

Games with money management


by Lance Cirone - 21 votes for 15 games, last vote on December 21, 2024; created on October 12, 2024
"Games that have money mechanics, with buying things and portioning out your money as a key part of the gameplay."

Narrator as a Separate Character


by jaclynhyde - 15 votes for 13 games, last vote on December 20, 2024; created on October 17, 2024
"Games where the narrator is a distinct character from the PC whose actions you're controlling."

Language puzzles


by baf - 20 votes for 10 games, last vote on December 10, 2024; created on August 5, 2024
"I'm interested in games where the player must learn an unfamiliar language. I'm particularly interested in ones that have done it in unique ways, and ones where the language is dissimilar to English."

"Weird and Eerie" interactive fiction


by Dawn S. - 31 votes for 20 games, last vote on December 10, 2024; created on March 19, 2023
"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,..."

Games featuring music


by Karl Ove Hufthammer - 32 votes for 25 games, last vote on December 7, 2024; created on July 29, 2012
"I have always thought that music has a huge potential for enhancing IF, more so than graphics has. So what are the best examples of IF games that use music? Note that this poll does not include games with only sound effects; they have to..."

Sex in non-adult IF


by Ferret From Hell - 43 votes for 26 games, last vote on November 27, 2024; created on March 20, 2012
"It struck me the other day that sex is one thing that actually seems to feature rarely in IF. What games are there, other than out and out AIF, that give prominence to sex or sex scenes? The only ones that immediately spring to mind are..."

Games with the best writing


by A. I. Wulf - 70 votes for 32 games, last vote on November 27, 2024; created on October 18, 2017
"Games are a new medium of art. It's still a maturing medium. But still some works May have succeeded in being truly classic in their writing. As an enthusiastic writer I need to know about the growth of IF in this field."

Must-play games


by Jeff Sonas - 321 votes for 61 games, last vote on November 24, 2024; created on March 26, 2009
"I am looking for the games that, in your opinion, you simply must have played in order to really call yourself an IF aficionado. Or if someone wanted to play N number of IF games in order to get as good an overview of the IF classics..."

Influential Games


by Rose - 509 votes for 65 games, last vote on November 21, 2024; created on February 1, 2009
"As a historical exercise, I've begun compiling a list of IF games that have either done something ground breaking with the medium or otherwise influenced it; and I've turned it into a poll so everyone can have input on the expansion...."

Some of the best and most confusing mechanics you've ever played


by Max Fog - 12 votes for 10 games, last vote on November 12, 2024; created on August 27, 2024
"I'm looking for games with super weird or confusing mechanics, but actually are really good games. For example, I found the clock mechanic in Finding Martin really confusing, but I really like it."

Games where the interaction is really cool and clever


by Isa - 43 votes for 19 games, last vote on November 10, 2024; created on September 26, 2018
"I'm really interested in games which put a new spin on the mechanics. I'm thinking of a specific one where the narrator is really mean to you and is its own character in the game, but I'm really interested in any games which are..."

Games featuring alchemy


by Hellzon - 6 votes for 6 games, last vote on November 8, 2024; created on July 16, 2024
"Games featuring alchemy, a subset of games with cool magic systems. There are at least some with puzzles based on mixing alchemical compounds, and even more where the setting is some kind of alt-historical "alchemy-punk"."

Investigating your own death


by EJ - 11 votes for 9 games, last vote on November 8, 2024; created on October 18, 2024
"Games that substantially revolve around a dead protagonist trying to find out (or even remember) something about how they died."

Interesting uses of colour in TADS


by Dannii - 4 votes for 4 games, last vote on November 7, 2024; created on July 13, 2024
"What are some interesting uses of colour in TADS games? Foreground, background text colours, or windows with different colours?"

Games which take place in chat messenger systems or on a digital interface


by grimperfect - 61 votes for 43 games, last vote on November 7, 2024; created on September 23, 2019
"Specifically, works where the main mechanic is either exploring a in-game digital interface(ala Secret Little Haven) or communicating using a type of chat/text messenger system(think Emily is Away). "

One Room Non-Escape Games


by tggdan3 - 68 votes for 31 games, last vote on November 5, 2024; created on April 7, 2010
"I'm looking for a one room game, where the purpose is NOT to escape that one room. (Eliminating games such as Enlightenment, Suveh Nux, 69,105 keys, etc). I'm not sure if there even ARE many such games, but I would be interested in..."

fourth wall breaking


by Cygnus - 15 votes for 12 games, last vote on November 2, 2024; created on February 17, 2024
"Okay, I swear this will be my last poll for the month. BUT. I love fourth-wall breaking. I am a simple guy. I love when games mess with me. There's a plethora of games here, and there isn't an overtly filled fourth-wall tag, so if you..."

IF adaptations of existing poems


by pieartsy - 17 votes for 17 games, last vote on November 2, 2024; created on July 2, 2024
"I'm looking for IF that adapts existing static poems, either using the text directly or taking the story/plot/themes of the text and turning them into something interactive. Does not have to be a "game" with a win/lose or branching paths..."

"Camp" Games


by Pinstripe - 21 votes for 13 games, last vote on November 1, 2024; created on April 15, 2012
"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..."

The great puzzlefests


by Victor Gijsbers - 124 votes for 50 games, last vote on October 30, 2024; created on August 9, 2018
"Playing Curses!, I started wondering which games belong to the canon of great puzzlefests. With this term I mean puzzle based games that are long, difficult and punishing; but also fair, engaging and truly rewarding to work through. The..."

Games with no victorious end


by NosesAreAlive - 8 votes for 5 games, last vote on October 22, 2024; created on January 17, 2010
"I'm looking for games which can be won, but don't end when they are."

magic systems / accurate time travel


by Cygnus - 15 votes for 13 games, last vote on October 21, 2024; created on February 17, 2024
"I recently played Never Gives Up Her Dead by Mathbrush, and I loved it a lot. I especially loved the magic part in a certain part, and I've previously played The Wand and loved that to pieces. I also love researching time travel and I..."

Solved without Hints


by joncgoodwin - 216 votes for 114 games, last vote on October 21, 2024; created on July 16, 2010
"I'm very interested in hearing truthful accounts of at least somewhat difficult games (or games that don't solve themselves at least) solved completely without recourse to hints, walkthroughs, etc. "

Split-up PC functionality


by baf - 67 votes for 27 games, last vote on October 16, 2024; created on April 21, 2010
"In a normal game, there is a single fictional entity that is considered to be: - The protagonist: the character that the player is meant to identify with, and whose goals you are trying to achieve - The viewpoint character: the character..."

Games about characters who are Trapped by the Narrative


by pieartsy - 9 votes for 9 games, last vote on October 13, 2024; created on August 2, 2024
"Games about characters being trapped by the themes and plot of the game, with little to no possibility for a good and happy ending, no matter how the characters strive against it. Often dynamic fiction; often with themes about fate,..."

Games that did it earlier


by Floating Info - 14 votes for 10 games, last vote on October 11, 2024; created on August 26, 2015
"What are some lesser known games that were first to have a feature that was later perfected by a more well known game?"

School of Chaos Creepypasta's


by StrawberryPie1 - 9 votes for 8 games, last vote on October 10, 2024; created on April 1, 2016
"I'm looking for realistic gaming stories that include creepypasta"

Games with detailed descriptions of art works


by Greg Frost - 31 votes for 20 games, last vote on October 10, 2024; created on March 22, 2021
"I am looking for games which use the literary technique of ekphrasis: "a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined" (Wikipedia)."

Fast-paced action scenes


by Juhana - 48 votes for 27 games, last vote on October 8, 2024; created on May 28, 2010
"Fast-paced action is something that's notoriously hard to do in IF where waiting for player's input necessarily pauses the game every turn. Which games have succeeded in creating action scenes that convey the sense of urgency, danger and..."

2025 Review-a-thon - games seeking reviews (authors only)


by Tabitha - 8 votes for 8 games, last vote on October 7, 2024; created on August 3, 2024
"The IF Review-a-thon is an event meant to spur reviews of games released outside the community's two major comps (IF Comp and Spring Thing). If you're an IF author who would like more reviews of your work, feel free to submit those works..."

long games for beginners


by Cygnus - 17 votes for 10 games, last vote on October 6, 2024; 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..."

Games with NPCs that tag along


by Ghalev - 89 votes for 50 games, last vote on October 6, 2024; created on February 12, 2009
"List here any games that feature a (preferably memorable!) "sidekick" character - an NPC who follows the viewpoint character around for most or all of the game, as per Floyd in Planetfall or Trent/Tiffany in Leather Goddesses of Phobos."

Milking


by CMG - 26 votes for 20 games, last vote on October 3, 2024; created on November 18, 2015
"After playing Hard Puzzle by Ade McT, which centers around assembling a "milking stool" under rather sinister circumstances, it struck me how odd it can be to feature milking in a game. This poll is for any games that include or..."

Games about strange and wonderful plants


by verityvirtue - 31 votes for 18 games, last vote on October 1, 2024; created on June 26, 2016
"Botany! "

Absolute worst IF


by NOM3RCY - 11 votes for 6 games, last vote on September 28, 2024; created on April 11, 2012
"There's a surprising lack of a "worst IF" poll. I felt that I had to make it. We've all played the classics, the Colossal Caves, the Zorks, the Anchorheads, the Slouching Towards Bedlams. What are the games that you should never play?"

One Hit Wonders


by deathbytroggles - 40 votes for 21 games, last vote on September 27, 2024; created on May 11, 2019
"Good games by authors who apparently retired after their one gem."

Games much improved in later versions


by Karl Ove Hufthammer - 29 votes for 20 games, last vote on September 26, 2024; created on November 17, 2013
"Most IF works are only available in ‘version 1’, but some are released in updated versions. And a few see a large amount of bug fixing, rewriting and polish. This is a poll for highlighting these games, games that the authors have..."

Games with extraordinary "wow" moments


by J'onn Roger - 59 votes for 23 games, last vote on September 26, 2024; created on July 7, 2009
"If there is a moment in a game that stands out to you with vivid clarity, a moment of extraordinary beauty with writing that makes you really makes you see what is taking place, list the game here. Since surprise may play a part in the..."

Microparsers


by Tabitha - 79 votes for 60 games, last vote on September 18, 2024; created on December 13, 2023
"The discussion in this thread, from which I've borrowed the term "microparser" (thanks Pinkunz!), led me to want to collect small parser games. I'm thinking of ones that fit what's described in the thread--generally taking less than 30..."

The absolute hardest non-broken games you've played


by MathBrush - 39 votes for 24 games, last vote on September 16, 2024; created on September 23, 2017
"After reading Jason Dyer's post on his excellent adventure blog (at bluerenga.wordpress.com) about the hardest adventure ever (which I haven't tried yet, but want to!). Everyone has a game that they've experienced that is just absolutely..."

Your crazy friend/relative's crazy house


by Malasana - 14 votes for 11 games, last vote on September 15, 2024; created on November 26, 2021
""The archetypal IF setting will always be Your Crazy Friend/Relative's Crazy House. It's the perfect way to work through all the classic IF tropes - plenty of puzzles to solve for no other reason than to see what's beyond, sealed-off..."

Games with aspect transfer mechanics


by David Welbourn - 9 votes for 8 games, last vote on September 12, 2024; 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..."

Child authored IF


by Hulk Handsome - 15 votes for 12 games, last vote on September 11, 2024; created on October 24, 2012
"It's incredibly unlikely to find a game created by a child (12 years or under) that's actually well made, but they can still be enjoyable. It's fun to see a young ones imagination run wild, limited only by their... likely poor coding..."

Games that take place completely in museums


by Andrew Schultz - 16 votes for 11 games, last vote on September 3, 2024; 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..."

Games involving deception


by Fie - 12 votes for 8 games, last vote on September 3, 2024; created on July 21, 2024
"Deceiving a talking obstacle? Tricking a child? Fooling you? Besting me? Interactivity means that intentional decisions are made, and intentional decisions can be wrong. "

Games with Impossible-to-film moments


by aaronius - 26 votes for 15 games, last vote on September 3, 2024; created on November 5, 2009
"I'm looking for games that demonstrate the power of text-based games. Games with sentences that would make developers of 3D games weep, like "The army of ten million robots marched over the liquid landscape," or "She concealed her anger..."

The dark, the bleak, and the tragic


by OverThinking - 18 votes for 12 games, last vote on September 1, 2024; created on March 6, 2024
"Send me your downers, your bummers, your wretched games that leave the player feeling like they've been kicked in the teeth."

Good Games in French/Bons jeux en français


by thecanvasrose - 24 votes for 16 games, last vote on August 27, 2024; created on August 26, 2019
"I've recently reached an intermediate level of French speaking at my university. I can easily read relatively straightforward sentences, that is, but writing which is highly poetic or archaic I will not understand. I think I know French..."

Really hard puzzle/adventure games


by Silius - 40 votes for 20 games, last vote on August 9, 2024; created on April 9, 2009
"You know like with lots of puzzles you have to solve."

Wandering NPCs


by Fredrik - 64 votes for 38 games, last vote on August 8, 2024; created on January 7, 2011
"I have always been fascinated with games that have several wandering and independent NPCs, especially when you have the ability to try to order them around. This sets the stage for a game where no one session is like any other, and even..."

Best Short Games (5-60 minutes)


by Sasha Davidovna - 224 votes for 68 games, last vote on August 5, 2024; created on July 12, 2009
"I'm pretty new to IF and am having a lot of fun, but in between a toddler and a job and other real life stuff, I'm having trouble finding time to finish many of the longer games I want to play. Can you please recommend me some fun and/or..."

Rat games


by Tabitha - 26 votes for 21 games, last vote on August 4, 2024; 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."

2024 Review-a-thon - games seeking reviews (authors only)


by Tabitha - 50 votes for 49 games, last vote on August 3, 2024; created on March 10, 2024
"EDIT 2: I've locked this poll, but have started a new one here for next year's Review-a-thon! EDIT: The inaugural IF Review-a-thon is now underway! Full information here. Are you an IF author who would like more reviews of your work?..."

Games about travel


by penguincascadia - 99 votes for 74 games, last vote on August 1, 2024; created on February 19, 2016
"This list is for games either about travel or with travel as a major part of the plot or background. Stuff like being able to choose where you go from a relatively wide range of destinations, road trips, exploring a city or region as a..."

games with female protagonists


by X.W - 56 votes for 38 games, last vote on July 29, 2024; created on July 11, 2018

Oh, You BEAST: Games where you're an animal!


by Ghalev - 53 votes for 35 games, last vote on July 17, 2024; created on August 6, 2009
"I know of a small handful of games where you play a beast, and I want to know of more. (By beast I mean a cat, a dog, a chicken, an orangutan, that kind of thing ... not looking for mythical monsters and not looking for part-timers, so..."

Best parser games since 2017


by Rovarsson - 112 votes for 46 games, last vote on July 17, 2024; created on November 9, 2020
"When browsing for good recent games, I'm overwhelmed by the amount of Twine and Choice games. Add to that a great number of games with five stars and only one rating, many of which are also, yes, Twine and Choice games, it gets difficult..."

PC's personality integrated with the story


by JasonMel - 83 votes for 42 games, last vote on July 15, 2024; created on March 27, 2012
"I would like to be able to recommend to someone many examples of interactive fiction in which the player character is far from a cipher or an everyman or everywoman, but is instead a character with a definite personality within a game..."

Romance Games


by Molly - 78 votes for 28 games, last vote on July 5, 2024; created on February 3, 2009
"In honor of Valentine's Day, I'm looking for games that deal with romance and relationships."

Vertical Games


by Anya Johanna DeNiro - 43 votes for 23 games, last vote on June 24, 2024; created on November 17, 2014
"Looking for games that really explore verticality, which go up (way up) in their setting. Human-made structures in particular: towers, skyscrapers, radio antennae. Games that figuratively can make you feel dizzy, particularly after a..."

Games that simulate their own aging


by Beable - 31 votes for 16 games, last vote on June 23, 2024; 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..."

More than it appears to be...


by dacharya64 - 102 votes for 41 games, last vote on June 23, 2024; created on January 14, 2012
"I'm looking for games that aren't exactly what they seem. Perhaps they come across as simple or romantic or anything really, the point is that things take a turn for the worse (or perhaps the better) and everything begins to change...."

First and Third Person Second Person Narratives


by dacharya64 - 34 votes for 23 games, last vote on June 15, 2024; created on March 20, 2013
"Not as complicated as it sounds! Interactive fiction is dominated by the iconic second person narrative (*You* find yourself in a room). But this is not the only way that these stories could be told. I'm looking for those games out there..."

THE BEST OF THE FAKE TROLL GAMES


by Max Fog - 7 votes for 5 games, last vote on May 30, 2024; created on April 3, 2024
"Like, games that have a blurb that is seemingly a troll game (like SPY INTRIGUE, as an obvious example) but then very soon after you start playing it you realise it's actually a really good game (or better than you would have imagined)...."

Games with NPC dialogue that gives strong yet mimesis-keeping hints


by Andrew Schultz - 15 votes for 12 games, last vote on May 17, 2024; created on January 2, 2023
"In IFComp 2022, it struck me how your partner Alex, in A Walk Around the Neighborhood and your father in The Last Christmas Present did a really good job of providing an NPC that gave hints without outright spoilers. This was to help you..."

Longest games you ever played


by MathBrush - 70 votes for 25 games, last vote on May 15, 2024; created on August 2, 2015
"I'm looking for the game that you played that had the most content (not necessarily being stuck on a puzzle for a long time)"

IF that purposely conceals crucial player character information


by Puddin Tame - 65 votes for 21 games, last vote on May 13, 2024; created on October 28, 2012
"IF that doesn't explicitly clue players in on knowledge they would/should have if they actually were the player character (The character's motivation, interests, relevant parts of their past etc.), which, for good or bad, results in some..."

Best antagonists


by OverThinking - 16 votes for 10 games, last vote on April 28, 2024; created on March 23, 2024
"IF has a tradition of pitting the player against the environment or their circumstances. I'm looking for something a little more personal. Give me your moustache-twirling, card-carrying villains. Give me your apathetic, inflexible..."

Games Centered Around Devices/Machines


by Amanda Walker - 32 votes for 18 games, last vote on April 27, 2024; created on August 1, 2022
"I'm looking for games that heavily feature learning how to use a device or machine. For instance, the machine in Emily Short's Savoir-Faire, Art DiBianca's devices in the Grandma Bethlinda games, or the box in Paul Michael Winters's The..."

Birds in IF


by Wendymoon - 87 votes for 54 games, last vote on April 26, 2024; created on November 8, 2009
"What games can you think of with birds in them? What's the bird? Is it important to the game?"

PCs with mental disabilities other than depression and anxiety


by pieartsy - 22 votes for 17 games, last vote on April 18, 2024; created on March 16, 2023
"Games with PCs that have mental disabilities aside from depression or anxiety - PTSD, OCD, ADHD, Bipolar, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, dyslexia, etc - that significantly impact them/the story. The PC does not need an official realistic..."

Parser games with WOW moments.


by Marco Innocenti - 31 votes for 21 games, last vote on April 15, 2024; 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..."

Best of Quest


by Denk - 18 votes for 13 games, last vote on April 12, 2024; created on March 14, 2020
"There are more than 600 Quest games on IFDB. Surely there must be a lot of bad Quest games, but there are certainly good ones too. It would be interesting to know, which ones are worth playing."

IF Compilations (Games made of parts of other games)


by penguincascadia - 9 votes for 8 games, last vote on April 2, 2024; created on March 18, 2022
"Hello everyone, I'm looking for IF games that are mergers of other IF games or parts of other IF games together. Bonus points if the various games can interact with each other, like objects on one game section being usable in another..."

Looks like I have to do EVERYTHING myself


by Kinetic Mouse Car - 7 votes for 5 games, last vote on April 2, 2024; created on January 30, 2023
"This poll is for games where the player's sole purpose is to fix things. It's their job, or a near equivalent to a job. Does not necessarily have to be traditional employment but fixing things has to be part of the PC's purpose, not..."

Games that could use more reviews


by MathBrush - 35 votes for 24 games, last vote on March 31, 2024; created on April 23, 2020
"I love to review games. Let me know if you've made a game that needs more reviews, or can suggest someone else's! I might not be personally able to review every game due to time, content, or platform, but I'll try!"

Games that include a maze you would describe as 'hey, actually fun'


by Jeremy Freese - 49 votes for 25 games, last vote on March 29, 2024; created on July 16, 2009
"Everybody always dissing mazes in IF. What are the games that prove them wrong?"

Artistic Games


by WriterBob - 134 votes for 37 games, last vote on March 26, 2024; created on November 15, 2008
"I'm interested in games that take the fiction of IF to new levels. These are not straightforward, plot driven games. Think instead of games that play like poetry, or games that focus on a character's revelation."

Games exploring trauma and other messy subject matter


by Kastel - 29 votes for 22 games, last vote on March 15, 2024; created on August 24, 2023
"Looking for, as Nathalie Lawhead puts it, art caught between “everything is horrible”, “everything is survivable”, and “this is too hard to talk about”. I'm interested in how people explore the messy things in life through IF..."
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