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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 Anya Johanna DeNiro - 31 votes for 11 games, last vote on December 16, 2020; created on July 14, 2016"Sometimes by the end of the year and after the Comp it's hard to keep front-and-center the games that appeared earlier in the year! Here is a place to list what has tickled your fancy so far. One vote per game only please."
by breslin - 30 votes for 17 games, last vote on June 10, 2018; created on October 10, 2008"Doesn't need to be satisfying as a conventional game, but must be interesting as an experiment. The idea being that AI work in IF is something that still needs work. Name the games you think which are contributing to this area of genre..."
by Jeremy Freese - 30 votes for 21 games, last vote on January 1, 2023; created on December 20, 2012"IF games that have source code available that you'd hold up as an example of what good looking source code is supposed to look like. (I was motivated to post this by wanting to study some I7 source, but actually pretty source from other..."
by Natrium729 - 30 votes for 18 games, last vote on August 2, 2022; created on October 3, 2016"I'm looking for good "open world" IFs, that is, IFs where the player can just wander and explore the world without necessarily following the main plot (think Elder Scrolls). They could take place on a planet, in a city, or even just in a..."
by verityvirtue - 30 votes for 17 games, last vote on January 21, 2023; created on June 26, 2016"Botany! "
by Lance Campbell - 30 votes for 14 games, last vote on January 1, 2023; created on December 16, 2020"Looking for any games that feature a core puzzle mechanism that the player masters and expands upon throughout the game. The puzzle mechanism should start out simple, and evolve and expand in an organic way, supporting the game and story..."
by Molly - 30 votes for 17 games, last vote on March 13, 2023; created on December 30, 2008"Games that have great puzzle-design. The puzzles need to be logical and internally consistent."
by Anya Johanna DeNiro - 30 votes for 16 games, last vote on February 3, 2022; created on July 16, 2010"What I'm looking for are games that aren't "other-world" fantasy, but rather use one of the following as part of its thematic underpinnings: Renaissance magic, Neoplatonism, hermeticism, gnosticism, alchemy, or any other kind of..."
by murphy_slaw - 30 votes for 12 games, last vote on May 10, 2015; created on February 27, 2009"I'm looking for games where the player character is significantly stupider and/or less observant than the average player - the kind of game where part of the challenge is making sense of the descriptions offered through the simplistic..."
by MathBrush - 30 votes for 8 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 Romance game of 2023. Voting is open to all IFDB members. Suggested..." by MathBrush - 30 votes for 8 games, last vote on February 18, 2023; created on January 30, 2023"This poll is part of the 2022 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 an outstanding game of 2022 that felt truly interactive. Voting is open to..." by Jerako - 30 votes for 20 games, last vote on February 3, 2022; created on May 25, 2014"I'm looking for a list of games to try where the narrative is the focus of the game. Where the author is really trying to tell a story over making a puzzlefest (though puzzles aren't necessarily unwelcome, especially if they drive they..."
by Molly - 29 votes for 18 games, last vote on December 16, 2020; created on December 15, 2012"The year of our lord Two Thousand Twelve is almost over, so let's reflect back on the games we've played this year and see which ones we liked the most. Note that the games don't have to have come out in 2012 to be eligible for this..."
by dacharya64 - 29 votes for 19 games, last vote on December 13, 2022; 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..."
by Amanda Walker - 29 votes for 17 games, last vote on January 12, 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..."
by Kastel - 29 votes for 22 games, last vote on March 15, 2024; created on August 24, 2023by Andrew Schultz - 29 votes for 20 games, last vote on November 8, 2023; created on December 28, 2014"I'm wondering about games (primarily parser) with weird directions beyond NW/SW/SE/NE, up, down or inside/outside. I like the example in the Inform docs (Charles S. Roberts) about hexagonal directions but have no clue how to go about..."
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 Ghalev - 29 votes for 16 games, last vote on August 1, 2022; created on May 17, 2010"In some games, you play a brave hero, or a cynical crime-fighter, or a cunning robber. In others, you play an artificial mind, an alien, or an animal. In many, you play nobody in particular, just an average person of some kind, doing a..."