2025 Alternative Top 25

Recommendations by Denk

(Created 16-May-2025) This is a snapshot of the 25 games on IFDB with the highest average star rating, though excluding games with less than 5 ratings. The purpose is to allow for games with few ratings so people can check out the less known games with high average ratings.

This is the fourth edition. Early editions (2020, 2023) were Top 100 but I decided that Top 25 is enough going forward.

2024: https://ifdb.org/viewlist?id=7nikymuktawwcaw
2023: https://ifdb.org/viewlist?id=2wkocul49cdha01s
2020: https://ifdb.org/viewlist?id=7zl6pqkm6lvdlf7i

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1. Never Gives Up Her Dead
by Mathbrush
(2023)
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

2. Visit Skuga Lake - Masterpiece Edition
by Ryan Veeder
(2023)
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

3. Long Live the Queen
by Hanako Games
(2012)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

4. Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale
by Kreg Segall
(2020)
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

5. Sordwin: The Evertree Saga
by Thom Baylay
(2019)
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

6. Our Life: Beginnings & Always
by GBPatch
(2020)
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

7. Heaven's Vault
by Inkle
(2019)
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

8. Ladykiller in a Bind
by Christine Love
(2016)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

9. A Mage Reborn
by Adam Alamsyah
(2022)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

10. Spring Gothic
by Prof. Lily and Kastel and Lacunova and Nitori and Noelle Amelie Aman
(2025)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

11. Type Help
by William Rous
(2025)
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

12. Worldsmith
by Ade McT
(2016)
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

13. The Den
by Ben Jackson
(2024)
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

14. Counterfeit Monkey
by Emily Short
(2012)
Average member rating: (263 ratings)

15. Hate Plus
by Christine Love
(2013)
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

16. Stay?
by E. Jade Lomax
(2020)
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

17. SLAMMED!
by Paolo Chikiamco
(2013)
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

18. The Passenger
by Jime Rolón
(2022)
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

19. Sorcery! 2
by Steve Jackson and inkle
(2013)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

20. Crimson Rose & White Lily
by manonamora
(2021)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

21. What Isn't Saved (will be lost)
by Cat Manning
(2018)
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

22. Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives
by Jeffrey Dean
(2021)
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

23. How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title
by John Ziegler
(2023)
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

24. The Trials of Rosalinda
by Agnieszka Trzaska
(2024)
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

25. Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two
by Mishka Jenkins
(2020)
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

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