Both The Little Four and My creation include excerpts from published books! The Little Four from (naturally) The Big Four by Agatha Christie and My creation from Frankenstein.
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And Anne of Green Cables, of course
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Fired features a trenchcoat as well.
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“Detritus” and “Hobbiton Recall”… feature point-sprite starfields, heh.
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Found another game with a lighter: By All Reasonable Knowledge. That makes four five so far (including Frankenfingers, as reported by Rovarsson)… a pretty good contender for this year’s clawfoot bathtub.
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Both Who Whacked Jimmy Pinata and The Kidnapping of a Tokyo Game Developer have climactic chases where you go circling around until you figure what to do. Each provides humor in a different way.
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Both Who Whacked Jimmy Pinata and The Kidnapping of a Tokyo Game Developer have climactic chases where you go circling around until you figure what to do. Each provides humor in a different way.
The one-way circle was admittedly a lazy way to reduce the number of links I needed to put in and test. In a similar act of laziness, the underground maze isn’t really a maze — it’s totally linear and is just meant to increase your step count.
I’ll have to see what Jimmy Pinata is like 
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I just started INPUT PROCESS and it immediately involves a lighter! (Not an item as such though.)
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According to @aschultz’s review of Mr. Beaver, both it and my own entry use water fixtures as a surreal means of transport.
Not quite the same water fixture though.
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Not quite the same water fixture though.
It’s not really the water fixture, its a… ahhhhh… spoiler alert. 
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Also Temptation in the Village! (Though it is based on a fragment unpublished during the author’s lifetime.)
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I haven’t had a chance to play *OVER* yet, but it looks like a promising candidate for the lighter-list based on its cover art!
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In both “Warrior Poet of Mourdrascus“ and “Penthesileia“ the
prefects come off as despicable.
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So you’re saying the prefect is the enemy of the good?
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N-no… Anyway… Has anyone ever told you how handsome you are?
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According to @aschultz’s review of Mr. Beaver, both it and my own entry use water fixtures as a surreal means of transport.
Oh, hey… my entry The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens actually has something like that, too! What are the odds? 
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Oh my God, what are the odds?! That’s uncanny!
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There’s an ineffectual bathroom hand-dryer in both Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata? and Visit to the Human Resources Administration.
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Both Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan and A Smörgåsbord of Pain feature a major character throwing a large object through a window and using the hole to escape.
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There’s an actual clawfoot bathtub in The Little Four!
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