Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2023 edition)

People were asked to send in a list of between 1 and 20 of their favourite IF games of all time (in no particular order). The number of points a game got was the number of lists on which it appeared. 59 participants cast a total of 880 votes on 341 different games; only the 70 games with 4 or more points are listed below.

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Series: Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time

Organizer(s): Victor Gijsbers

Award date: September 15, 2023

Qualification opening date: August 9, 2023

Qualification closing date: September 3, 2023

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1st Place: Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
2nd Place: Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry
3rd Place: Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin
4th Place: Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin
5th Place: The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson
6th Place: The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
6th Place: Photopia, by Adam Cadre
8th Place: Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
8th Place: Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota
10th Place: 80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth
10th Place: Colossal Cave Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods
10th Place: Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
10th Place: Curses, by Graham Nelson
10th Place: The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson

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