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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.
"any game will do"
by diddlescatter - 11 votes for 8 games, last vote on January 2, 2023; created on February 26, 2020"Looking for games that may have gotten poor reviews but are still memorable and worth playing for the story."
by thecanvasrose - 13 votes for 7 games, last vote on September 13, 2022; created on December 8, 2019"I've run into some cool ones. Let's hear it! 》 Choicescript games are often (but not always) titled "Choice of ____." Games like "Choice of Robots" and "Creatures Such as We" are Choicescript games. "
by Rovarsson - 20 votes for 14 games, last vote on December 31, 2023; created on November 29, 2019"This can apply to the setting of the games; prairies, deserts, icecaps come to mind. It can also apply to the feel of a game, the impression that the player is free to roam far and wide. Open game-worlds."
by Rovarsson - 15 votes for 12 games, last vote on January 11, 2023; created on November 28, 2019"I love historical novels, no matter what time period they're set in. They do have to be accurate though. Can you suggest IF-games that are also like that? (In short: no magic.)"
by thecanvasrose - 27 votes for 15 games, last vote on December 16, 2020; created on November 3, 2019"1. Please leave a description with your vote and tell me what the game is/why you like it/etc. 2. Free to play games preferred. 3. I'm interested to see what's new or less well known."
by thecanvasrose - 43 votes for 35 games, last vote on November 25, 2023; created on October 20, 2019"I'm making a list based on this poll as I play the elected games and can write snippets about them. See here: https://ifdb.org/viewlist?id=3n6rheokfkcsntf - - - - - - - - - I'm looking for games which are: 》Neither parser nor gamebook..."
by grimperfect - 55 votes for 39 games, last vote on July 26, 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). "
by thecanvasrose - 37 votes for 21 games, last vote on August 13, 2021; created on September 8, 2019"Looking for what it says on the tin."
by thecanvasrose - 22 votes for 16 games, last vote on March 2, 2021; 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..."
by thecanvasrose - 31 votes for 21 games, last vote on October 3, 2023; created on August 20, 2019"I'm a sucker for horror, psychological suspense, adventure, the paranormal and supernatural, monsters and mystery. Please suggest scary games to me - even those which lie outside of the genre of horror, like sci-fi, crime or fantasy, if..."
by baf - 14 votes for 11 games, last vote on October 10, 2023; created on July 17, 2019"Recently, a representative of Ubisoft attracted some attention by saying, about an upcoming game with a grandmother as a protagonist, "Nobody has dared to do anything with a granny before, I think." Obviously he was only really speaking..."
by Spike - 44 votes for 25 games, last vote on March 19, 2023; created on July 7, 2019"Several of us are interested in using IF for education, both in the classroom as well as more broadly. The purpose of this poll is to collect examples of IF with an educational focus."
by Princessthe1st - 22 votes for 13 games, last vote on August 4, 2022; created on June 9, 2019"I'm looking for games for middle-schoolers, that are hard and fun but still appropriate."
by deathbytroggles - 39 votes for 21 games, last vote on January 2, 2024; created on May 11, 2019"Good games by authors who apparently retired after their one gem."
by MathBrush - 13 votes for 10 games, last vote on July 28, 2022; created on April 15, 2019"This is for suggesting games released in 2018 which you think might be worth considering for Best Use of Multimedia in the XYZZY awards. This is not a zeroth-round nomination.This is not an official list. The point of poll is partly to..."
by MathBrush - 8 votes for 7 games, last vote on June 17, 2019; created on April 15, 2019"This is for suggesting games released in 2018 which you think might be worth considering for Best Innovation in the XYZZY awards. This is not a zeroth-round nomination.This is not an official list. The point of poll is partly to suggest..."
by MathBrush - 16 votes for 14 games, last vote on June 17, 2019; created on April 15, 2019"This is for suggesting games released in 2018 which you think might be worth considering for Best Implementation in the XYZZY awards. This is not a zeroth-round nomination.This is not an official list. The point of poll is partly to..."
by MathBrush - 10 votes for 7 games, last vote on June 17, 2019; created on April 15, 2019"This is for suggesting puzzles in games released in 2018 which you think might be worth considering for Best Individual PC in the XYZZY awards. This is not a zeroth-round nomination.This is not an official list. The point of poll is..."
by MathBrush - 10 votes for 9 games, last vote on June 17, 2019; created on April 15, 2019"This is for suggesting puzzles in games released in 2018 which you think might be worth considering for Best Individual NPC in the XYZZY awards. This is not a zeroth-round nomination.This is not an official list. The point of poll is..."