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I help run the Interactive Fiction Database. https://ifdb.org/ https://ifdb.org/ I think that our list of games ranked by review scores is certainly the finest

I help run the Interactive Fiction Database. https://ifdb.org/ https://ifdb.org/ I think that our list of games ranked by review scores is certainly the finest repository of extraordinary text-based games in the world. https://ifdb.org/search?browse https://ifdb.org/search?browse Every game on that list is fantastic. For your reading convenience, the top ten are: Counterfeit Monkey, Anchorhead, Superluminal Vagrant Twin, 80 Days, Hadean Lands, Lost Pig, The Wizard Sniffer, Violet, and The Impossible Bottle. You can click the "Play Online" button on almost any game in IFDB to play it right there in your browser, without downloading anything. IFDB also includes all of the 20th century classics, including Infocom games, but IMO the modern games have long-since outclassed them. If you're curious, here's our list of top-ranked Infocom games. https://ifdb.org/search?searchfor=tag:infocom https://ifdb.org/search?searchfor=tag:infocom The top-ranked Infocom games are science-fiction games, topped by Trinity, Infocom's surreal "Alice in Wonderland" time-travel game, followed by Planetfall and A Mind Forever Voyaging.

xwowsersx 4y ago
Counterfeit Monkey is great writing: To review, we're Alexandra now. I was Alex, before the synthesis. You were... >I don't know ...oh boy. Okay. Okay. I need you on form here. This is going to be hard if you don't remember being Andra. Not panicking. As far as I can tell, the operation was a success. We're meant to be one person now, unrecognizable to anyone who knew us before. hehe
- memalign 4y ago
  Counterfeit Monkey is my all-time favorite. I like it so much, I made a mobile-friendly demo: https://memalign.github.io/m/counterfeitmonkey/index.html https://memalign.github.io/m/counterfeitmonkey/index.html
  - xwowsersx 4y ago
    Nicely done! What are all those trees on the right? https://ibb.co/kSG36JX https://ibb.co/kSG36JX Some sort of game map?
    - memalign 4y ago
      Yeah, it’s the map which is slowly revealed as you move between locations.
amw 4y ago
I just want to pipe in with a personal standout from when I used to play more IF, which is _King of Shreds and Patches_, Lovecraft in the London of Shakespeare, and worth a playthrough.
Aeolun 4y ago
Just want to agree with the fun that ‘80 days’ is :) There’s also ‘Magium’, which is not really a game so much as interactive fiction.
sp332 4y ago
Hadean Lands also has a mobile app version, with a button-oriented interface so you don't have to type so much on a touchscreen keyboard.
dave333 4y ago
Unable to play any of these online in Chrome on Windows - first 3 games I tried fail to load with the message TypeError: failed to fetch. Update looks like it's timing out so maybe server is getting hammered.

xwowsersx 4y ago

Counterfeit Monkey is great writing: To review, we're Alexandra now. I was Alex, before the synthesis. You were... >I don't know ...oh boy. Okay. Okay. I need you on form here. This is going to be hard if you don't remember being Andra. Not panicking. As far as I can tell, the operation was a success. We're meant to be one person now, unrecognizable to anyone who knew us before. hehe

memalign 4y ago
Counterfeit Monkey is my all-time favorite. I like it so much, I made a mobile-friendly demo: https://memalign.github.io/m/counterfeitmonkey/index.html https://memalign.github.io/m/counterfeitmonkey/index.html
- xwowsersx 4y ago
  Nicely done! What are all those trees on the right? https://ibb.co/kSG36JX https://ibb.co/kSG36JX Some sort of game map?
  - memalign 4y ago
    Yeah, it’s the map which is slowly revealed as you move between locations.

amw 4y ago

I just want to pipe in with a personal standout from when I used to play more IF, which is _King of Shreds and Patches_, Lovecraft in the London of Shakespeare, and worth a playthrough.

Aeolun 4y ago

Just want to agree with the fun that ‘80 days’ is :) There’s also ‘Magium’, which is not really a game so much as interactive fiction.

sp332 4y ago

Hadean Lands also has a mobile app version, with a button-oriented interface so you don't have to type so much on a touchscreen keyboard.

dave333 4y ago

Unable to play any of these online in Chrome on Windows - first 3 games I tried fail to load with the message TypeError: failed to fetch. Update looks like it's timing out so maybe server is getting hammered.