This is hopefully my last list. These are games that comment on the nature of interactive fiction or the interactive fiction community itself. The quality of these games varies wildly, and this list doesn't attempt to sort by quality.
These are only games that explicitly take about games or IF. It does not include games like 9:05, Degeneracy or Shrapnel that mess around with IF conventions.
1. Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson Wheeler (2000) Average member rating: (55 ratings)
MathBrush says:
A popular game where you go inside the brain of Zarf (aka Andrew Plotkin).
2. The Cabal, by Stephen Bond (2004) Average member rating: (27 ratings) MathBrush says:
This game suggests that there is (or was) a shady group of IF authors who have been plotting to get rid of Infocom style puzzle games in favor of story-based games. Manic comedy, references many old IF games.
3. Endless, Nameless by Adam Cadre (2012) Average member rating: (55 ratings)
MathBrush says:
A large game that starts as an old-school tex adventure and becomes something more. The whole thing is an analogy for the history of interactive fiction.
4. IFDB Spelunking by Joey Jones (2012) Average member rating: (21 ratings)
MathBrush says:
The author has implemented the opening (or all of) 10 games on a random games list from ifdd, with commentary and interesting interactivity.
5. When Help Collides, by J. D. Berry (2002) Average member rating: (15 ratings) MathBrush says:
You are a person in a little ship with a kind of radio; your job is to provide hints to adventurers in Interactive Fiction games. Quite difficult without a walkthrough.
6. Deadline Enchanter by Alan DeNiro (2007) Average member rating: (57 ratings)
MathBrush says:
The PC is playing a magical IF game in another world.
7. Constraints, by Martin Bays (2002) Average member rating: (20 ratings) MathBrush says:
A game about the nature of free will in games.
8. A New Day, by Jonathan Fry (1997) Average member rating: (6 ratings) MathBrush says:
You get sucked into an uncompleted IF game by one of its NPCS.
9. Creatures Such As We by Lynnea Glasser (2014) Average member rating: (95 ratings)
MathBrush says:
The main character plays a video game the whole time, and discusses the nature of games with its creators.
Explores the nature of reviewer-author interaction.
24. I.A.G. Alpha by Serhii Mozhaiskyi (2018) Average member rating: (14 ratings)
MathBrush says:
A game that is unfinished and describes itself as such, but allows you to manipulate it.
25. Re: Dragon by Jack Welch (2018) Average member rating: (13 ratings)
MathBrush says:
A game referring to IFComp itself and a past IFComp game.
26. Porter Cave Adventure, by Cam Miller (2019) Average member rating: (7 ratings) MathBrush says:
This game was created as part of a game design course, and has the player wandering through an Adventure-like cave system while teaching about various aspects of gameplay.
