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"Games of any genre, irregardless of the quality of the game itself, that has an exceptional clothing management system in place."
by Floating Info - 17 votes for 11 games, last vote on August 3, 2022; created on July 27, 2015"What games have your favorite openings? By opening I mean everything before the first room description in a parser game or the first screen of a choice game. It could be a sentence, a few sentences, a paragraph, or more. But I'm looking..."
by aaronius - 17 votes for 11 games, last vote on January 1, 2023; created on November 5, 2009"Post your favorite sentences/excerpts from games in the comment field. Especially lovely if they are from deeper in the game than the opening text, although all are welcome."
by Bruno Dias - 17 votes for 13 games, last vote on July 21, 2018; created on October 20, 2015"I'm looking for hypertexts that make heavy use of stretchtext and related effects to tell their story - Links that add, remove, or alter text within a passage. Swan Hill for instance makes heavy use of this, and my own work does too, but..."
by MathBrush - 17 votes for 8 games, last vote on February 17, 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 best game of 2022 by a new author. Voting is anonymous and open only to..." by Anya Johanna DeNiro - 17 votes for 17 games, last vote on April 11, 2020; created on May 8, 2016"Interpret "under-rated" however that means to you. Perhaps it's one that's simply not played very much for whatever reason. Or it's a game you consider flawed but still worth playing, or an early effort that you are fond of."
by autumnc - 17 votes for 8 games, last vote on January 4, 2023; created on December 10, 2020"Visual novels are a form of interactive fiction whose community is almost entirely distinct from the interactive fiction community based around IFDB/IFComp. There are plenty of visual novels that can easily be recast as CYOA text-based..."
by OverThinking - 16 votes for 10 games, last vote on April 28, 2024; created on March 23, 2024"IF has a tradition of pitting the player against the environment or their circumstances. I'm looking for something a little more personal. Give me your moustache-twirling, card-carrying villains. Give me your apathetic, inflexible..."
by matt w (Matt Weiner) - 16 votes for 13 games, last vote on January 10, 2024; created on March 13, 2015"Going along with the Mother-Daughter poll, any games that touch on father-son relationships? Again, not necessarily the center of the work."
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 Writing 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 Ghalev - 16 votes for 15 games, last vote on September 27, 2020; created on December 1, 2010"Before you played X, you never thought you'd like horror games. Before you played Y, you never thought you could take a game with a dragon in it seriously. Before you played Z, you thought linear games would just frustrate you. Tell me..."
by strivenword - 16 votes for 12 games, last vote on August 6, 2022; created on July 27, 2010"My favorite genre of fiction, interactive or otherwise, is high fantasy -- the genre of such epic series of novels as The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien and The Wheel of Time by Jordan. I'm especially interested in games with an alternate..."
by Cygnus - 16 votes for 9 games, last vote on July 22, 2023; created on March 31, 2023"so… you know how savior fair is long and awesome, but also, like, complicated? and.. cruel, as the ratings out it? I think the first thing that goot me INTO IF was anchor head. kinda that difficulty. recently played d’arkun and that was..."
by MathBrush - 16 votes for 8 games, last vote on February 17, 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 best Adventuron game of 2022. Voting is open to all IFDB members. Eligible..." by MathBrush - 16 votes for 6 games, last vote on February 17, 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 best Spanish game of 2022. Voting is open to all IFDB members. Eligible..." by Denk - 16 votes for 13 games, last vote on March 11, 2024; created on August 13, 2023"Any game which has been practically unavailable for a long time for most players but is now again available to play, though there might be differences from the original version."
by Xervosh - 16 votes for 14 games, last vote on November 25, 2022; created on September 9, 2010"I'm hoping to be reminded of some of the obscure little IF games I may have played during the 1980s, but since can't recall. In addition, this poll may get a few more obscure games from the 1980s (or early 90s, or late 70s) listed in the..."
by Mikalye - 15 votes for 14 games, last vote on February 3, 2022; created on May 27, 2020"There were a bunch of commercial games released in the 1980's and early 90's. In the UK, Magnetic Scrolls release 9 games between 1984-1990 Level 9 released 24 games and a port of Colossal Cave between 1981-1991, Delta 4 released 9ish..."
by MathBrush - 15 votes for 13 games, last vote on July 2, 2020; created on June 22, 2020"This is for suggesting games released in 2019 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 partly to..."