Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2019 edition)

1st Place: Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
2nd Place: Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota
3rd Place: Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry
4th Place: 80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth
4th Place: Galatea, by Emily Short
4th Place: Photopia, by Adam Cadre
4th Place: Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin
4th Place: Trinity, by Brian Moriarty
9th Place: Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin
9th Place: Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian
11th Place: Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
12th Place: Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto
13th Place: Curses, by Graham Nelson
13th Place: howling dogs, by Porpentine
13th Place: Violet, by Jeremy Freese
13th Place: The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson
17th Place: Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
17th Place: Horse Master, by Tom McHenry
17th Place: Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard
17th Place: Shade, by Andrew Plotkin
17th Place: Vespers, by Jason Devlin
17th Place: Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade
23rd Place: Bee, by Emily Short
23rd Place: Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser
23rd Place: Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers
23rd Place: Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover
23rd Place: Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short
23rd Place: With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie
29th Place: Aisle, by Sam Barlow
29th Place: Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
29th Place: Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian
29th Place: The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher
29th Place: A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky
29th Place: SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle
29th Place: Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty
36th Place: A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey
36th Place: Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady
36th Place: Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser
36th Place: Harmonia, by Liza Daly
36th Place: Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight)
36th Place: Rameses, by Stephen Bond
36th Place: Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling
36th Place: Suspended, by Michael Berlyn
36th Place: The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca
36th Place: Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
46th Place: 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad
46th Place: Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods
46th Place: Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest
46th Place: De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers
46th Place: Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth
46th Place: Cragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna et al.

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46th Place: The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith
46th Place: Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre
46th Place: Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe
46th Place: Fallen London, by Failbetter Games
46th Place: Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson
46th Place: The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
46th Place: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky
46th Place: Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin
46th Place: Human Errors, by Katherine Morayati
46th Place: Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca
46th Place: Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey
46th Place: Make It Good, by Jon Ingold
46th Place: Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy
46th Place: Suveh Nux, by David Fisher
46th Place: their angelical understanding, by Porpentine
46th Place: Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover
46th Place: Varicella, by Adam Cadre