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"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 Inform 6 game of 2022. Voting is open to all IFDB members. Eligible..." by Rovarsson - 6 votes for 4 games, last vote on February 3, 2022; created on February 12, 2021"Over on the IF-Forum, there was a post recommending a number of Eamon games that are not hardcore RPG. So, can you suggest Eamon or other RPG-style games that lean towards IF? (Big on puzzles, low on kicking monster's bums and stats.)"
by BlitzWithGuns - 6 votes for 4 games, last vote on January 27, 2018; created on June 22, 2016"I'm interested in some slice of life games which are able to make you feel nostalgic and warm inside, something like 'Photopia'!"
by Fredrik - 6 votes for 6 games, last vote on January 6, 2011; created on January 4, 2011"I can only guess that I was not the only one spending hours upon hours typing in those BASIC listings from magazines and books back in the 80s. And unavoidably learning the art of programming in the process. Not to mention gleaning..."
by loudcat - 6 votes for 5 games, last vote on January 2, 2024; created on March 31, 2020"I've been thinking about games with game-breaking bugs (or games that repeatedly crash and are hard to get through) that are otherwise really solid games. Do you have any games like this?"
by chux - 5 votes for 3 games, last vote on September 10, 2022; created on May 19, 2015"That is, I'm specifically interested in a European / Western version of the 18th-C.: Age of Enlightenment; Great Awakening / Puritanism; Colonial and Revolutionary USA; Louis XIV to French Revolution; hoop petticoats, justacorps, and..."
by Malasana - 5 votes for 5 games, last vote on July 6, 2023; created on June 1, 2023"Sunny, light-hearted games that are ideal to play during the warm summer months."
by Andrew Schultz - 5 votes for 5 games, last vote on January 3, 2024; created on July 30, 2023"I'm looking for--well, anything that does this. Not "you are missing 4 of 5 pieces of the magic sword," but more, it could either be something funny to notice if you really think about it, or it could be something more obviously..."
by NosesAreAlive - 5 votes for 3 games, last vote on May 30, 2017; created on January 17, 2010"I'm looking for games which can be won, but don't end when they are."
by Jeremy Freese - 5 votes for 5 games, last vote on March 2, 2021; created on January 7, 2013"I was playing around a bit with a couple of the Glulx hyperlinks extensions, and this led me to be interested in looking at some games that have been written in Glulx and make use of hyperlinks."
by dollweiss - 5 votes for 5 games, last vote on May 17, 2022; created on April 7, 2022"i'm looking for horror games with no paranormal/supernatural/non-human antagonists or enemies. no lovecraftian stuff. basically: stalkers, serial killers, that kinda thing. "
by frofroggy - 5 votes for 3 games, last vote on January 13, 2016; created on December 5, 2015"I'm looking for IF with puzzles that are solved by literacy in a non-IF software tool. The story should communicate an experience that the user might have a hard time experiencing themselves without the IF providing a guiding narrative..."
by CJ - 5 votes for 4 games, last vote on April 25, 2022; created on March 17, 2022"I want some of the best selections (just a few, 10-20 tops) of the greatest and most imaginative IF out there. I recently downloaded an IF app, and I want a bit more variety so I can learn a bit more. Stuff like 9:05 is great, I just..."
by MathBrush - 5 votes for 3 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 Inform 6 game of 2022. Voting is anonymous and open only to IFDB..." by Bishopofbasic - 5 votes for 4 games, last vote on January 1, 2023; created on July 23, 2015"The last time I put up a poll, I got some really great games, and loved playing them. So now I'm looking for some of the worst IF games ever created within the community. Something in the likes of Ed Wood."
by Nadya Sanders - 5 votes for 5 games, last vote on February 3, 2022; created on May 3, 2017"MASH-like story line. Just for fun and there's no real goal or point."
by theqbasicwizard - 4 votes for 3 games, last vote on July 5, 2017; created on September 27, 2013"Howdy, I'm looking for a game to play that is extremely underrated and unknown by the general audience. Something like a horror game of sorts."
by Andrew Schultz - 4 votes for 2 games, last vote on December 14, 2022; created on August 31, 2022"There are a lot of serious games that do this, but I'm wondering more about stuff like "There is a button saying PUSH THIS AND DIE." And typing PUSH BUTTON or clicking a PUSH BUTTON ANYWAY hyperlink makes the player die amusingly...."
by Dr. Questionable - 4 votes for 4 games, last vote on January 9, 2024; created on December 20, 2022"Games that take place in a medieval-like setting including an aspect of royalty, a rich-story, and some magic. "
by glaap - 4 votes for 3 games, last vote on July 23, 2018; created on October 6, 2015"As I'm currently working on a game that tries to modernize the text adventure genre in a way that it gets closer to movies while still maintaining the idea that you just have a text interface, i'd like to do research on the most..."