Is 27 shadows on the mirror?
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@alyshkalia has correctly identified #18, and @EJoyce has found a correct alternative for #27 (I had Breakfast in the Dolomites).
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Just checked this one out, and the opening location is “Battlefield”.
#30 is almost certainly the most obscure one on the list. (@mathbrush has reviewed it, but as @Jamespking points out, that doesn’t narrow the field very much).
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The title of #12 is A Train to Piccadilly and you people should play it as it is a hard puzzle game and only has 5 ratings on IFDB, making it the least played inform game of mine, ever. 
Ps: the letters in the room name are countries, as you travel the world a lot. More than one world, actually.
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This is a cool iniciative, I like It. I have answered offline and have 10 bull eyes.
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Did you get any that no-one else has got yet?
At least one poster in this thread is the author of a game that’s not yet been identified. I can’t tell if they’re just being sporting and letting others have a go or genuinely didn’t recognise their own game!
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I genuinely didn’t realize! For 90% of the game’s development, it started in a different room (a transit hub), so I didn’t even think about it (#16, right?)
I thought it was Once and Future for a second, but that doesn’t seem to be it.
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Once and Future starts with “Barracks, at the card table”. I cut a couple from the list (including that one) to make it an even 30.
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30 might be the English version of Entre les Lignes de Feu by paraaviaar?
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It’s not the one I was thinking of, but I’ll take it if it fits! However, I can only find reference to that game in French and Spanish - do you have a link to an English version?
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Here it is: Between the Lines of Fire by paravaariar.
While I was on the page, I checked. It’s not a fit. It starts in The Forest.
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Here’s the list of all the ones which haven’t been identified yet:
13. << Chief's office >>
21. Your House
22. In Your Tent
24. Cell
25. Studio
28. Outside
30. No Man's Land
If anyone would like some (fairly oblique) hints:
Fairly oblique hints
Here’s a list of IFDB tags. The number in brackets is how many of the seven games above have that tag listed:
ClubFloyd transcript (3)
fantasy (2)
Inform 6 (4)
puzzleless (1)
Slice of Life (1)
source available (5)
SpeedIF (2)
TADS 2 (1)
walkthrough (6)
Winner of a comp (2)
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In Your Tent
→ Once and Future ?
I already mentioned upthread that the starting location of Once and Future is “Barracks, at the card table”.
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I figured shadows on the mirror was probably too deep a cut to be the actual intended answer, but it occurred to me it might fit, so I thought I’d throw it out there! It’s an odd game and I don’t know if I’d necessarily recommend it, but it’s stuck with me.
Is 25 A Day for Fresh Sushi?
I’m trying to think what the other “SpeedIF”-tagged game could be—there aren’t a lot of speed IF games that are noteworthy enough to make it into something like this, and some of the ones that are that noteworthy don’t have the tag.
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@EJoyce has correctly identified #25, leaving only six to go!
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Oh, also, one of the six games still unguessed was given earlier as an incorrect guess for a different opening location.
Wait, 24 is The Dreamhold!
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Yep!
When I wrote the list, I actually intended 24 to be Lock & Key, but I realised early on that The Dreamhold was also a correct answer and probably more likely to be found ( especially after @mathbrush guessed it for 23), so I wrote the clues up above as if that was the one I’d always intended.
Five to go!
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oh hey I managed to guess more than I expected!
Is 28 Lost Pig/? Though surely there’s other games that begin Outside. (My first thought was Search for the Lost Ark, but that one starts Outside Church.)
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