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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.
"Obviously not counting "death" as an ending, but non-successful ends can count if there are other successful ends. Variation in endings should at least vary the ending somewhat (as opposed to be an extra word or two). "
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 Jeremy Freese - 33 votes for 18 games, last vote on December 31, 2023; created on December 12, 2012"What I'm looking for are games that have fights that are ostensibly combat, but the solution to winning the fight is really a matter of solving a puzzle."
by verityvirtue - 39 votes for 22 games, last vote on December 31, 2023; created on February 1, 2015"I'm looking for games which work like Bigger Than You Think - where dying isn't the end, where you're given second chances, where your second chances give you gear or skills or knowledge that you need to know to win the game."
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 BlitzWithGuns - 68 votes for 37 games, last vote on December 31, 2023; 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?"
by Estrong157 - 35 votes for 24 games, last vote on December 31, 2023; created on June 15, 2016"more specifically, games with time travel as a gameplay element."
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 - 109 votes for 46 games, last vote on December 31, 2023; 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..."
by Greg Frost - 28 votes for 17 games, last vote on December 31, 2023; 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)."
by Andrew Schultz - 19 votes for 15 games, last vote on December 31, 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 jlvp1234 - 28 votes for 14 games, last vote on December 30, 2023; created on February 13, 2021"I'm looking for games with cooking. ever since I have played gourmet and, gourmet version1, wich is the same, I have also played you got a stew going. does anyone have any recommendations other than these on wich I have just mentioned?"
by RetroProgressive - 2 votes for 2 games, last vote on December 26, 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 - 8 votes for 7 games, last vote on December 25, 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 - 15 votes for 10 games, last vote on December 25, 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 matt w (Matt Weiner) - 51 votes for 32 games, last vote on December 23, 2023; created on March 13, 2015"What are some IF works that involve a relationship between a mother and a daughter? Not necessarily as the center of the work, but as something that impinges on it at all."
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 Xionix - 67 votes for 48 games, last vote on December 9, 2023; created on February 28, 2013"I started playing Counterfeit Monkey, and I notice a good map is a way for us newbies to get into the game more easy. And I hate to draw so, are any other games that got a in-game map? It can be any genre."
by Ghalev - 48 votes for 31 games, last vote on December 9, 2023; 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..."
by Hulk Handsome - 13 votes for 10 games, last vote on December 4, 2023; 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..."