Good Games, Poor Parser
by tggdan3 - 5 games
"Games that you should just grit your teeth and try to complete, despite the poor parser, either because of great story or puzzles. "
Highly Recommended
by Wendymoon - 10 games
"I like great writing, interesting characters, a little mystery, romance and sci-fi."
Favorite ALAN games
by Alan DeNiro - 6 games
"These are some of my favorite games written in the ALAN IF-development language. With a lower learning curve and a more natural-language programming environment, ALAN v2 definitely filled an important role in IF before the advent of..."
Memorable Settings
by Emily Boegheim - 10 games
"Games with memorable settings or landscapes - not necessarily deeply implemented, but vividly described or intriguing in concept."
Best of SpeedIF
by David Welbourn - 12 games
"SpeedIF games are often overlooked or denigrated, and usually with good reason: with only two hours to code a game, the results can be rather shoddy. Buggy. Plagued with read-author's-mind problems. But not always. Here are a few SpeedIF..."
Word-play games
by Emily Short - 11 games
"Games where the text of the game is part of the puzzle."
Various games I enjoyed
by Deathworks - 1 game
"This is just a list of games that I enjoyed based on their own merit. There is no special common theme to them, besides me believing that they are worth being played."
Games for beginners
by Eric Eve - 10 games
"Many of the games in this list are ones I enjoyed as a beginner, but the main aim of this list is to suggest games that are reasonably short and not too hard (so that enjoyment should generally exceed frustration!), and which should..."
Deep and long puzzle adventures
by Maze - 6 games
"I always loved adventures. And I like them long and involving, with good, difficult puzzles. This is a list of the best ones I played. I placed Infocom's games in last place, not because they're no good, but because they're usually not..."
Games that are super awesome
by Personman - 2 games
"These are the IF games that I happen to think are incredibly amazing, fantastically wonderful, supremely terrific, and really great."
IF Romances
by Emily Short - 10 games
"IF in the romance genre is rare; here are a few I thought worked well."
Original Favorites from My FIrst Day
by NosesAreAlive - 3 games
"Anything I liked on my first day on this site"
Started But Unfinished Games
by GameDesigner - 10 games
"These are games that I started and never got around to finishing. I intend to finish them one at at time."
Danielle's List of Avant Garde IF
by Danielle - 2 games
"Artsy, Sophisticated, and often Insane. Know of any others I should try? Let me know!"
My favorite games
by Paolo Lucchesi - 5 games
"A brief list of the games I've liked, and I would recommend to another player"
Replay puzzles
by Emily Short - 7 games
"Games which are entirely devoted to a single big puzzle, usually one that the player has to replay a number of times to get exactly right. Often these involve time restrictions or events that the player has to observe in order to..."
Plot-heavy IF
by Emily Short - 10 games
"Interactive fiction with a lot of plot -- many scenes and events moving the player forward, rather than just a collection of puzzles. Some of these works are fairly difficult and do use puzzles as pacing devices, while others are low in..."
New Insights Project | Games & Interactive Fiction
by New Insights Project - 2 games
"In this list you can find our games/interactive fictions."
Danielle's Must-Play IF List
by Danielle - 9 games
"A list of my personal faves. The format and difficulty of these games vary. The quality, however, does not. I pondered on many of these games long after I finished them, and I hope you enjoy the depth of these works as well."
To begin
by Fra Enrico - 4 games
"If you are new to the IF, I suggest to start with a bunch of games. Some are easy to play and to get into the thing, some are so great that make you fall in love with the genre."