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"This poll is part of the 2023 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for an oustanding game of 2023 with a playtime of over 2 hours (as judged by the..." by MathBrush - 115 votes for 34 games, last vote on February 18, 2024; created on February 1, 2024"This poll is part of the 2023 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the best overall game of 2023. Voting is open to all IFDB members. Eligible..." by beecadee - 31 votes for 23 games, last vote on February 14, 2024; created on April 6, 2020"Anyone wanting to write IF has to start somewhere. Looking for games that were authors' first attempts... First attempts in a given development system count!"
by Dave Galvin - 10 votes for 9 games, last vote on February 14, 2024; created on February 11, 2024"I'd like to find IF games that play well without a physical keyboard, and with minimal use of a virtual keyboard. Graphical components are fine. Examples would include the Legend Entertainment Graphical IF Games: Gateway I-II, and..."
by Molly - 37 votes for 22 games, last vote on February 13, 2024; created on January 1, 2009"Good treasure hunting games in the vein of Zork and Adventure, although they may not necessarily be set in caves."
by Beable - 25 votes for 15 games, last vote on February 7, 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..."
by Andrew Schultz - 12 votes for 10 games, last vote on February 7, 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..."
by joncgoodwin - 205 votes for 112 games, last vote on February 7, 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. "
by J. J. Guest - 10 votes for 9 games, last vote on February 3, 2024; created on April 18, 2021"After playing a couple of the Fabled Lands gamebooks, I noticed they use a Spoke and Hub structure. I'm interested in choice-based IF games which use a similar structure. Sam Kabo Ashwell's blog post "Standard Patterns in Choice-Based..."
by aw1231 - 52 votes for 29 games, last vote on January 28, 2024; created on January 16, 2010"I am look for the hardest IF games ever."
by albie - 31 votes for 24 games, last vote on January 24, 2024; created on January 10, 2024"Looking for Twine games (ideally) that are appropriate for 10-16 year olds. Bonus points if it has an interesting/fun story or showcases some of the cool stuff that can be done with this medium. Thanks! :)"
by Floating Info - 37 votes for 13 games, last vote on January 21, 2024; created on December 10, 2012"I'd like to see games that are long and spacious, yet aren't Cruel (or very Nasty) on the Zarfian scale. Essentially, games that the main reason for saving is for time or the occasional timed part."
by RedHatter - 48 votes for 18 games, last vote on January 21, 2024; created on December 7, 2011"I'm looking for some games with a good magic system. Doesn't have to be at brilliant as Savoir-Faire but consistency would be nice." by ChrisM - 45 votes for 31 games, last vote on January 21, 2024; created on February 24, 2021"I'm interested in games that are straightforward adaptations of conventional books (probably novels, but I'd be interested to know if there are any non-fiction book adaptations). The ones that I know of are The Famous Five and The..."
by Jeremy Freese - 27 votes for 16 games, last vote on January 20, 2024; created on October 25, 2009"The chase scene, a staple of Scooby Doo and action movies, but how often has it been done in IF?"
by Mostly Useless - 47 votes for 23 games, last vote on January 19, 2024; created on January 3, 2014"Twine games that do something you found unusual and interesting, not in terms of story, but visually or mechanically, or both."
by Cerfeuil - 38 votes for 24 games, last vote on January 18, 2024; created on June 20, 2023"Games that feature carnivals, fairgrounds, amusement parks, circuses, etc. Of any kind!"
by Max Fog - 9 votes for 5 games, last vote on January 17, 2024; created on December 6, 2023"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 tunesmith - 11 votes for 9 games, last vote on January 17, 2024; created on December 24, 2018"I'm looking for IF that works well for reading aloud to someone else, and then typing in what they would like to do. We like Inform games and parser games in general. So games that are a little more story focused, and with not as much..."
by dacharya64 - 94 votes for 39 games, last vote on January 10, 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...."