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Recommendations by Max Fog

I use this list to remind myself what are good games and what to replay. Also, you guys might agree! (By the way, I can't see what I'm writing so I didn't describe the games fully!)

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1. Eat Me
by Chandler Groover
(2017)
Average member rating: (101 ratings)

Max Fog says:

Such a grotesquely brilliant game. I just keep wanting to play even though I know what I'm doing!

2. Leather Goddesses of Phobos
by Steve Meretzky
(1986)
Average member rating: (67 ratings)

Max Fog says:

Playing in safe mode, this is hilarious - even more so than H2G2!

3. Never Gives Up Her Dead
by Mathbrush
(2023)
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Max Fog says:

I beta tested this game but I love it.

4. Repeat the Ending
by Drew Cook
(2023)
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Max Fog says:

Wow. Wow. Wow. Drew Cook, thank you. D's and Brad's characters are amazing. I liked this whole thing.

5. Suspended
by Michael Berlyn
(1983)
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

Max Fog says:

The matter in this game makes it crazy, and also really really dark. You're forced to be stuck in this cryogenic freezer! What! And it cleverly made me crazy. I say cleverly because they probably did it on purpose.

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

Max Fog says:

So. Probably one of the biggest games of all of IF. Also really well implemented and just very prefect in loads of ways.

7. Bureaucracy
by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom
(1987)
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

Max Fog says:

This game is, unknown to most, pretty much THE most complex and complicated game in the history of Infocom. It is a certain masterpiece.

8. Trinity
by Brian Moriarty
(1986)
Average member rating: (100 ratings)

Max Fog says:

Trinity pulls a serious matter which, at the time, was a real fear for many - and makes a fantasy game with crazy ideas in it. Especially the last section, the endgame. Don't miss the endgame.

9. I Am Prey
by Joey Tanden
(2023)
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Max Fog says:

This one has cool mechanics, and really well designed.

10. The Impossible Bottle
by Linus Åkesson
(2020)
Average member rating: (82 ratings)

Max Fog says:

You know what I mean. The implementation of the house, the puzzles, the sad story. It's really cool.

11. Counterfeit Monkey
by Emily Short
(2012)
Average member rating: (241 ratings)

Max Fog says:

Of course, how couldn't I put this one? It has so much, so well done. It is so brilliant and clever and prefect. It's Counterfeit Monkey!

12. Cragne Manor
by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna et al.

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(2018)
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(25 ratings)

Max Fog says:

Yes. Ryan Veeder and Jenni Polodona, you are very very great.

13. Coloratura
by Lynnea Glasser
(2013)
Average member rating: (114 ratings)

Max Fog says:

Beautiful piece of work. Colours abound, and it is dark - but I see the game in a black and white perspective. And yet...

14. Absence of Law
by mathbrush
(2017)
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

Max Fog says:

Wow! Very very fun and funny and mad. Like, all the puzzles!

15. Superluminal Vagrant Twin
by C.E.J. Pacian
(2016)
Average member rating: (124 ratings)

Max Fog says:

I am impressed with the breadth (is that a word?) of this game, and even though it is not entirely user friendly, it captivates you and makes it feel fun.

16. All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows (2004)
Average member rating: (92 ratings)
Max Fog says:

Puzzles which are clever and make me shout when I solve them. This game has some awesome stuff in it.

17. Bogeyman
by Elizabeth Smyth
(2018)
Average member rating: (80 ratings)

Max Fog says:

Whoahhhhhhhh... that caught me. I got a friend into IF with this also

18. Fail-Safe
by Jon Ingold
(2000)
Average member rating: (112 ratings)

Max Fog says:

That final ending was... wow.

19. Hunter, in Darkness, by Andrew Plotkin (1999)
Average member rating: (121 ratings)
Max Fog says:

I know I've never mentioned this one, but it's an ingenious piece of fast paced IF.

20. SPY INTRIGUE
by furkle
(2015)
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

Max Fog says:

Uh.... I don't really know what to say about this one.........

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