 | Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry
9 votes
"Creepy. Kept me jumping for weeks." [+]"Creepy. Kept me jumping for weeks." ( - Full review) --Bernie... "Lovecraftian chills." [+]"Lovecraftian chills.: Creepy atmosphere/images!" () --Puddin Tame... "Menacing..." [+]"Menacing atmosphere and sense of place." () --Emily Short... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Peter Pears... (No comment) [+](No comment) --aaronius... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Rhian Moss... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --jahilia... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Xervosh... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --diddlescatter...
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 | Photopia, by Adam Cadre
8 votes
"The greatest IF game ever made." [+]"The greatest IF game ever made.: About halfway through, you will be able to see where the ending is inevitably going, and you'll hate it and love it and think it's beautiful and think it's horrible. And you'll keep playing." --Pinstripe... "Emotions,..." [+]"Emotions, descriptions, and moments from this game stick with me. I even got a little teary-eyed on my second time playing it. " () --Lenya... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Michael R. Bacon... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Michael Neal Tenuis... (No comment) [+](No comment) --J'onn Roger... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Grey... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Matt Wigdahl... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Karl Ove Hufthammer...
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 | Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton
5 votes
"I love how this story plays with your perception of time and memory." [+]"I love how this story plays with your perception of time and memory." ( - Full review) --J'onn Roger... "Memorably-rendered..." [+]"Memorably-rendered world-building in several places." () --Emily Short... (No comment) [+](No comment) --jingold... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --DJ... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --r6144...
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 | Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky
5 votes
"Floyd!" [+]"Floyd!: Twenty-five years later, I can't remember the details but I can still feel the range of emotions that Floyd brought out in me when I was a teenager" --Jeff Sonas... "Floyd++" [+]"Floyd++" () --Matt Kimmel... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Dave Chapeskie... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Xervosh... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Matt Wigdahl...
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 | A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky
4 votes
(No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Peter Pears... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Dave Chapeskie... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --aaronius... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Matt Wigdahl...
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 | Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
4 votes
"Spooky and beautiful" [+]"Spooky and beautiful: You'll be wary of trees for days. " ( - Full review) --Rose... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Peter Pears... (No comment) [+](No comment) --J'onn Roger... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Divide...
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 | Trinity, by Brian Moriarty
4 votes
"Infocom's finest hour." [+]"Infocom's finest hour.: Has many images that stay with you when the game is over." () --Puddin Tame... "The burned..." [+]"The burned woman... the valley of mushrooms... the monster that proves to be injured and terrified of you..." --Gemma Bristow... (No comment) [+](No comment) --aaronius... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Matt Wigdahl...
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 | Babel, by Ian Finley
4 votes
(No comment) [+](No comment) () --Peter Pears... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --kba... (No comment) [+](No comment) --scramble... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --DJ...
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| August, by Matt Fendahleen
3 votes
"This PC will stay with me for a long time." [+]"This PC will stay with me for a long time." ( - Full review) --Katrisa... "Not very..." [+]"Not very polished, but something about the main NPC really stuck with me." --Emily Short... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Peter Pears...
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| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin
2 votes
"Many memorable devices" [+]"Many memorable devices: The berries, the apple, the liquid floor, the easel- all have stuck with me long after the plot was forgotten." () --DJ... "...particularly..." [+]"...particularly for some unusual plants." --Emily Short...
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 | Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre
2 votes
"Some one-liners are really vivid and creepy." [+]"Some one-liners are really vivid and creepy." () --Grey... "A closetful of skeletons" [+]"A closetful of skeletons: The glimpses you get into the player character's often ugly family life are creepy enough to have you reaching for the brain bleach." ( - Full review) --Dominic Delabruere...
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 | howling dogs, by Porpentine
2 votes
"Contains..." [+]"Contains extraordinary and memorable passages about an empress who learns to pose for her own assassination, cities that grow like trees, the tombs of the gods, and much else." --Emily Short... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Edward Lacey...
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 | Exhibition, by Ian Finley
2 votes
"Surprisingly very moving..." [+]"Surprisingly very moving..." () --John D... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Karl Ove Hufthammer...
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 | Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank
2 votes
"A (broken) snapshot of the GUE." [+]"A (broken) snapshot of the GUE.: This last installment of the original trilogy finds the Great Underground Empire perfected to a signature blend of melancholy, satire, tragedy and raw loopiness. Feels real, feels ruined, lives in my mind when the game is shut down." () --Ghalev... "The Dungeon..." [+]"The Dungeon Master, and his sad denials of my accomplishments, somehow left a much more permanent impact than the previous two games did" --Jeff Sonas...
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 | Starcross, by Dave Lebling
2 votes
"Haunting..." [+]"Haunting...: The colored rods, the alien babies that frustrated my mapping attempts, the gradual power to control an alien ship... the feel of this game really stayed with me" --Jeff Sonas... (No comment) [+](No comment) --jingold...
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| The Moonlit Tower, by Yoon Ha Lee
1 vote
(No comment) [+](No comment) --J'onn Roger...
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 | Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson
1 vote
"Black remains one..." [+]"Black remains one of my favorite NPCs from any game. I may have even developed a little crush on that mysterious stranger..." () --Lenya...
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 | Domicile, by John Evans
1 vote
"I know I'm alone..." [+]"I know I'm alone on this vote, but Domicile still resonates with me years later. Perhaps I read more into the game than was actually there, but it's still the game that I most want to rewrite and offer my own interpretation of. Again and again, the game plays similar chords: the endless journeys, the people who are displaced, good vs. evil, learning ever more magic, and that which is cannot truly be fought but can only be accepted. There's a buried richness I wish to uncover there." --David Welbourn...
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 | Shade, by Andrew Plotkin
1 vote
"Claustrophobic..." [+]"Claustrophobic and intense. " () --diddlescatter...
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 | Metamorphoses, by Emily Short
1 vote
"Has a Myst-like..." [+]"Has a Myst-like aesthetic: melancholy landscapes filled with baroque, crystal and metal devices." --Gemma Bristow...
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 | Make It Good, by Jon Ingold
1 vote
"Hard-boiled, claustrophobic" [+]"Hard-boiled, claustrophobic" () --Erik Temple...
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 | Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci
1 vote
(No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Peter Pears...
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 | Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling
1 vote
"A jigsaw of..." [+]"A jigsaw of tight, surreal environments." --Gemma Bristow...
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