Games with misleading titles - an IFDB Poll
by Cendare
RSS FeedI was thinking about "Nothing But Mazes" and how it, in fact, contains things that aren't mazes. What other games have titles that don't quite reflect what's inside?
| Runes, by Deane Saunders 3 votes "What runes? You..." [+]"What runes? You play a herbalist gathering plant specimens." --David Welbourn... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Cendare... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Corwin71...  Vote for this game | |
| Bears, Bears, Bears, by Admiral Jota 3 votes "No bears appear..." [+]"No bears appear in the game." --David Welbourn... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Cendare... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Lance Cirone... Vote for this game | |
| The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode, by Victor Gijsbers 2 votes "Oddly named for a..." [+]"Oddly named for a game about bunnies. (There's a reason, but it's mostly about what is not in the game any more.)" ( - Full review) --Emily Short... (No comment) [+](No comment) --WaterMonkey314... Vote for this game | |
| Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro 2 votes "Not an Infocom..." [+]"Not an Infocom tribute." ( ) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Emily Boegheim... Vote for this game | |
| The Hentai Adventures of Captain Cumshot, by Jake Wildstrom 2 votes "Not pornographic." [+]"Not pornographic." --David Welbourn... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Lance Cirone... Vote for this game | |
| The Incredible Erotic Adventures of Stiffy Makane, by Mark Ryan 2 votes "It is, indeed,..." [+]"It is, indeed, not credible, and it does feature Stiffy Makane. Not erotic, adventurous or plural, however." ( ) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Lance Cirone... Vote for this game | |
| Nothing But Mazes, by Greg Boettcher 2 votes "The poll-definer." [+]"The poll-definer." --Cendare... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Lance Cirone... Vote for this game | |
| Captain Cumshot's Second Adventure: The Rim Job, by Jake Wildstrom 2 votes "Not porn. Not..." [+]"Not porn. Not even a little bit." --David Welbourn... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Lance Cirone... Vote for this game | |
| Square Circle, by Eric Eve 1 vote "Do oxymorons..." [+]"Do oxymorons count? ;)" --Corwin71... Vote for this game | |
| FutureGame, by Anonymous 1 vote "Not a game from..." [+]"Not a game from the future or about the future, but a polemic example of where the author felt game design was going." --Emily Short... Vote for this game | |
| Cryptozookeeper, by Robb Sherwin 1 vote "Cryptids, yes,..." [+]"Cryptids, yes, but what you do with them is almost the precise opposite of zookeeping." ( - Full review) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... Vote for this game | |
| Barsoom Adventure #1: The Lost City, by Susan Schnitger 1 vote "No John Carter!" [+]"No John Carter!: The game is in no way based on the Barsoom adventure stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is set on Mars, though." ( ) --Fredrik... Vote for this game | |
| Being There, by Jordan Magnuson 1 vote "Neither an..." [+]"Neither an interactive adaptation of the Jerzy Kosinski novel, nor an exploration of Martin Heidegger's concept of Dasein." ( - Full review) --Victor Gijsbers... Vote for this game | |
| Book and Volume, by Nick Montfort 1 vote "The game hardly..." [+]"The game hardly has anything to do with books as far as I can remember. (Belatedly, I'm told it's from a phrase from Hamlet. Does that help?)" --David Welbourn... Vote for this game | |
| 98769765, by Adam Biltcliffe 1 vote "As far as I know,..." [+]"As far as I know, the number "98769765" has no particular secret meaning and was just a random name for the game." --David Welbourn... Vote for this game | |
| The Absolute Worst IF Game in History, by Dean Menezes 1 vote "Not great by any..." [+]"Not great by any means, but I've played worse." --Emily Short... Vote for this game | |
| Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill 1 vote "Nobody in the..." [+]"Nobody in the game is named Nord or Bert." ( - Full review) --Lance Cirone... Vote for this game | |