Help! Even your in-post link to an “English version” is Mandarin!
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It isn’t for me; could be location based?
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Maybe you just need to change your language setting? It’s in the bottom right corner.
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----smacks forehead, bows in thanks----
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Thanks for all the hard work @VictorGijsbers! Lots of games on there I still have to play, so that’s a priority, health permitting. And thanks to all the fellow voters. Great work all.
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Great stuff, thanks to all involved.
Now is someone going to do the maths and see what % of the Top 50 (or, 70 as it happens) are also Cragne Manor authors?
EDIT: By my count, 19/70 (including Cragne Manor itself) share authors with Cragne Manor.
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I have the same problem now. But I can’t find a button or menu entry for setting the language. I already searched the whole game entry page, my whole settings page, the IFDB main page and my whole profile page.
Not in the bottom right, not anywhere else.
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It’s when you have already loaded the game.
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No. When I click “Play Online” I get only Chinese signs.
EDIT: Found it where you said. Sorry and thx
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Well either:
click on the link below the Play Online button
or
when the page is loaded, click on language and choose the one you want from the list.
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I tried those two games now, so I’ve now seen the whole top 50.
A Dark Room makes sense to be on the list! A unique game, reminds of Fallen London and roguelikes and Universal Paperclips.
I’m surprised a bit by Plasmorphosis being on there. Not because it’s bad, but because I wouldn’t even put it in the top 3 Agnieszka Trzaska games, many of which I think could place highly on this list (I especially like 4x4 Archipelago). But I’m glad it’s on the list as it may attract more people to Agnieszka’s games.
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I thought people also might appreciate a categorization of the games by length, medium, and genre:
| 1 | Counterfeit Monkey | 2+ hours | parser | wordplay/espionage/political |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Anchorhead | 2+ hours | parser | cosmic horror |
| 3 | Spider and Web | 2+ hours | parser | espionage/sci-fi |
| 4 | Hadean Lands | 10+ hours | parser | sci-fi/alchemy |
| 5 | The Impossible Bottle | around 2 hours | parser | surreal/family-based |
| 6 | The Gostak | around 2 hours | parser | surreal/con-lang adjacent |
| = | Photopia | around 2 hours | parser | slice of life + fantasy/sci-fi |
| 8 | Eat Me | around 2 hours | parser | fairy tale horror |
| = | Lost Pig | around 2 hours | parser | comedy/fantasy |
| 10 | 80 Days | 2+ hours per play | graphical/choice | alternate history/steampunk |
| = | Adventure | 10+ hours | parser | fantasy |
| = | Blue Lacuna | 10+ hours | parser | sci-fi |
| = | Curses | 10+ hours | parser | fantasy |
| = | The Wizard Sniffer | around 2-3 hours | parser | comedy/fantasy |
| 15 | A Mind Forever Voyaging | 10+ hours | parser | sci-fi/political |
| = | Superluminal Vagrant Twin | 2+ hours | menu/parser | sci-fi |
| = | Suveh Nux | about 2 hours | parser | fantasy |
| 18 | Birdland | abuot 2 hours | choice | comedy/coming of age/fantasy |
| = | Cragne Manor | 10+ hours | parser | cosmic horror/boneless horse |
| = | Plundered Hearts | 10+ hours | parser | romance/fantasy/pirate |
| 21 | According to Cain | about 2 hours | parser | fantasy/alchemy/religious |
| = | Coloratura | about 2 hours | parser | sci-fi |
| = | Open Sorcery | 2+ hours | choice | sci-fi/fantasy |
| = | Spellbreaker | 10+ hours | parser | fantasy |
| = | Suspended | 10+ hours | parser | sci-fi |
| = | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | 10+ hours | parser | sci-fi/comedy |
| = | Trinity | 10+ hours | parser | fantasy/sci-fi/historical |
| 28 | Aisle | < 15 min. per play | parser | slice of life/one move |
| = | howling dogs | about 1 hour | choice | surreal/sci-fi |
| = | The Archivist and the Revolution | about 1 hour | choice | sci-fi |
| = | The Fire Tower | 15-30 min. | parser | nature |
| = | The King of Shreds and Patches | 2+ hours | parser | cosmic horror |
| = | The Wand | 2+ hours | parser | fantasy |
| = | Violet | about 2 hours | parser | comedy/slice of life |
| = | Will Not Let Me Go | about 1 hour | choice | slice of life/sad |
| = | Worlds Apart | 10+ hours | parser | sci-fi |
| = | Zork I | 10+ hours | parser | fantasy |
| 38 | A Dark Room | 2+ hours | choice | crafting/roguelike |
| = | A Paradox Between Worlds | about 2 hours | choice | metafiction/fantasy |
| = | Choice of Robots | 2+ hours per play | choice | sci-fi |
| = | Computerfriend | abt 1 hr | choice | dystopian |
| = | Grooverland | 2+ hours | parser | fantasy |
| = | Horse Master | about 2 hours | choice | sci-fi |
| = | Make It Good | 2+ hours | parser | mystery |
| = | Savoir-Faire | 2+ hours | parser | fantasy |
| = | Shade | 15-30 minutes | parser | horror |
| = | SPY INTRIGUE | 2+ hours | choice | surreal/sci-fi |
| = | Wishbringer | 10+ hours | parser | fantasy |
| 49 | 1893: A World’s Fair Mystery | 2+ hours | parser | historical/mystery |
| = | And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One | abt 2 hours | parser | metafiction |
| = | A Rope of Chalk | abt 2 hours | parser | slice of life |
| = | Babel | abt 2 hours | parser | sci-fi |
| = | Bee | abt 2 hours | choice | slice of life/religious |
| = | Enchanter | 10+ hours | parser | fantasy |
| = | Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone | 2+ hours | parser | horror/fantasy |
| = | Fallen London | 10+ hours | choice | horror/fantasy |
| = | Galatea | 15-30 minutes | parser | fantasy/slice of life |
| = | Inside the Facility | abt 2 hours | parser | sci-fi |
| = | Kerkerkruip | 2+ hours | parser | fantasy/roguelite |
| = | Lime Ergot | < 15 mins | parser | surreal/pirate |
| = | Overboard! | 2+ hours | choice | mystery |
| = | Plasmorphosis | abt 1 hour | choice | sci-fi |
| = | Queers in Love at the End of the World | < 15 min per play | choice | romance/apocalypse |
| = | Repeat the Ending | 2+ hours | parser | superhero/slice of life/metafiction |
| = | Ryan Veeder’s Authentic Fly Fishing | 2+ hours | parser | slice of life/mystery |
| = | Slouching Towards Bedlam | abt 2 hours | parser | steampunk |
| = | Treasures of a Slaver’s Kingdom | 2+ hours | parser | fantasy |
| = | Turandot | abt 1 hours | choice | romance |
| = | Vespers | abt 2 hours | parser | horror/religious |
| = | With Those We Love Alive | abt 1 hour | choice | surreal/fantasy/sci-fi |
Only while writing this did I realize that I haven’t played Overboard yet. I don’t know if I will, as I don’t have as much money these days for paid games, and I didn’t like Pendragon as much as I ought to.
Edit: changed Babel from slice of life (???) to sci-fi and Turandot from fantasy/alternate history to Romance.
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Babel: a slice of life story about the everyday worries and joys of a horribly disfigured and mutated monster , previously a scientist on a top-secret DNA-splicing/chromosome-reconfiguring facility on the north pole where everyone has died a gruesome death and history reveals itself through ghostly flashbacks.
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That’s a nice list, @mathbrush ! However, I think of Turandot as a romance (if admittedly a strange one), not a fantasy or alternate history game. I don’t think it contains a single fantasy element, and it’s setting is far too amorphous – you’ll never learn either which time or which country it’s set in – to count as alternate history.
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Overboard! Is nothing like Pendragon. It’s much closer to 80 Days.
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Yeah, it’s kinda more sci-fi (of what I’ve played at least).
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Okay, so a couple of things happened there that were weird:
-I don’t remember seeing Babel on this list
-I have no clue what game I thought it was
-I have had Babel open on my computer for the last week ready to play
I honestly got nothing here
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I love A Dark Room. I first played it many years ago and every so often I’m called back to it. It feels more like reading a novel than playing a game. The worldbuilding is so great and unsettling.
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