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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.
"For all the wannabe IF Authors out there, what games would you recommend they play/research? Hopefully looking for multiple types (best & worst IF) and also IF with sounds/pictures/animation & with well done feelies (maps, letters,..."
by Tobi Tesuji - 31 votes for 14 games, last vote on September 19, 2014; created on September 23, 2012"I haven't looked at any new games since more than one year. So, what did I miss? What are the best/most interesting games of the last 12-18 months?"
by Sam Kabo Ashwell - 64 votes for 29 games, last vote on February 28, 2023; 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..."
by Dannii - 26 votes for 16 games, last vote on August 6, 2022; created on September 2, 2012"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..."
by Joey Jones - 34 votes for 17 games, last vote on December 31, 2023; created on August 25, 2012"I'm hankering to play a good space-themed game. That is to say, a game not necessarily set in space, but a game that is in some way about space or our relation to space. Any takers?"
by Urtikor - 38 votes for 21 games, last vote on January 31, 2021; created on August 19, 2012"Hello, I just recently came across interactive fiction and I want to try it out and see if it's my kind of thing. I tried Dreamhold for maybe half an hour, but even though it seemed well written, solving puzzles isn't interesting for me...."
by Cuxxu - 24 votes for 19 games, last vote on January 3, 2023; created on August 10, 2012"Some of us over on boardgamegeek/videogamegeek/rpggeek are starting a interactive fiction-of-the-month club. It was discussed having a game with a Halloween Theme for October. Most of the people will be fairly new to IF. Any suggestions?"
by Karl Ove Hufthammer - 26 votes for 19 games, last vote on May 16, 2017; 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..."
by Molly - 21 votes for 14 games, last vote on August 26, 2022; created on June 21, 2012"It seems that for every Comp game that's still talked about today (e.g., Slouching Towards Bedlam, Shade, Photopia, etc.), there's ten or so that have been almost completely forgotten; some of them even placed in the top ten or higher...."
by Molly - 32 votes for 21 games, last vote on January 1, 2023; created on June 11, 2012"Lately I've been chasing away the blues by playing through my IF backlog. This made me wonder, what IF do you play as a pick-me-up? Maybe it's something that calms and soothes you, maybe it's really funny, or maybe it just distracts you..."
by Ghalev - 19 votes for 11 games, last vote on September 3, 2020; created on June 2, 2012"My desire is straightforward, but proving difficult to satisfy. I want games that are like the Zork games might have been, given a more contemporary set of design ideals. It seems to be an abandoned playing field in some ways, as if the..."
by Pinstripe - 20 votes for 12 games, last vote on November 14, 2020; 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..."
by NOM3RCY - 9 votes for 6 games, last vote on December 31, 2023; 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?"
by Pinstripe - 32 votes for 18 games, last vote on July 14, 2020; created on April 10, 2012"There are some games which are ubiquitous. A poll for funny, happy games? Lost Pig will be there. A poll for beautiful, dramatic games? Photopia always makes it. Conversational games? Galatea. Artsy games? Pretty much anything by Zarf...."
by DustyCypress - 81 votes for 45 games, last vote on December 13, 2023; created on March 28, 2012"Do you still remember when you played your very first IF? How did you get drawn (and perhaps addicted) to IF and have been playing still? What was the title that started it all for you? I started with a collection called "The Adventure..."
by JasonMel - 82 votes for 42 games, last vote on August 1, 2023; 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..."
by Kenji Yamada - 31 votes for 12 games, last vote on August 4, 2022; created on March 25, 2012"I'd like to play more games set in fictional worlds with deeply-imagined cultures and history. Implementation depth would also be a plus."
by Ferret From Hell - 42 votes for 25 games, last vote on January 27, 2023; 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..."
by JonathanCR - 29 votes for 13 games, last vote on June 12, 2018; created on February 21, 2012"Everyone knows that "escape the room" games and puzzles are an IF cliché. But which are the best examples of this classic genre?"
by Jonathan Blask - 45 votes for 29 games, last vote on May 17, 2023; created on January 15, 2012"I think it is both funny and interesting when games bill themselves as "Part # in the [blank] series" (and other games are never written). It is fun to speculate what directions those future games may have gone. This poll is a memorial..."