Here are mine:

1. Keepsake
2. Barrow Hill
3. Scratches
4. Riddle of the Sphinx
5. Grim Fandango
6. Omega Stone
7. Longest Journey
8. Shivers I
9. Shivers II
10. Dracula Resurrection
11. Dracula The Last Sanctuary
12. The Dig
13. Time Lapse
14. Lighthouse
15. Sanitarium
16. Zork Nemesis
17. Agon The Mysterious Codex
18. Darkfall
19. Lights Out
20. Beyond Atlantis 2

I had to leave off a bunch of good ones.

Bets

My List:

1. Syberia
2. Syberia 2
3. Black Mirror
4. Dream Fall
5. Keepsake
6. Aura
7. Aura 2
8. Nancy Drew games
9. Still Life
10.Amazone
11.Paradise
12.Tunguska
13.Post Mortem
14.Schizm
15.Myst
16.Riven
17.Runaway
18.Secret of Da Vinci
19.Delaware St. John: Case of Mystery Manor
20.Delaware St. John: The town with no name.

I could play all these games, over and over again, and never get tired of them..

Liz

Here's my list:

1. The Longest Journey
2. Dreamfall
3. Dracula: Resurrection
4. Dracula: The Last Sanctuary
5. The Blackstone Chronicles
6. Necronomicon
7. The Black Mirror
8. Nibiru
9. Syberia
10. Syberia 2
11. A Quiet Weekend in Capri
12. Last Half of Darkness: Shadows of the Servants
13. Barrow Hill
14. Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
15. Amerzone
16. Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch
17. Road to India
18. Keepsake
19. The Sacred Rings
20. The Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness

Thanks for doing this yet again, flotsam. I love reading everyone else's choices.

The first two will always be my top 2 favorites, no matter how many games I play. The others are listed alphabetically.

01. Myst I
02. Myst II: Riven
03. Amerzone
04. Ankh 1
05. Aura 1
06. Beyond Atlantis (aka Atlantis II)
07. Broken Sword 1, Circle of Blood
08. Broken Sword 2, The Smoking Mirror
09. Kyrandia 1, Legand of
10. Lighthouse: The Dark Being
11. Loom
12. Monkey Island 1, Secret of
13. Morpheus
14. Myst III: Exile
15. Riddle of the Sphinx
16. Schizm (Mysterious Journey 1)
17. Still Life
18. Syberia I
19. Syberia II
20. Timelapse

Great start - I had better get counting.

My turn:

Secrets of Da Vinci
Paradise
Secret Files Tunguska
Keepsake
Ankh
Moment of Silence
The Riddle of Master Lu
Conspiracies
Runaway
Syberia
The Longest Journey
Kings Quest 6
Broken Sword 1
Legend of Kyrandia 2
Still Life
Pandora Directive
Gabriel Knight 2
Phantasmagoria
Black Mirror
Monkey Island 2

Hi all,
Mucky is indeed a term of endearment - just ask Nickie, the highest of all the muckys.
TLJ leads the way narrowly, and Keepsake proves the most annoying voice ever doesn't prevent a game being popular.
27 games mentioned so far that weren't on last years list, and not all of them new - Loom and Pilgrim to name just two.
Well done to those who list alphabetically, and the comments are fun Betty Lou.
Keep em coming.

oldman, Riddle of Master Lu is a blast from the past for me. I had forgot all about that great game. It makes me miss the old days of Sierra and LucasFilms games.

It was an under mentioned under appreciated oldie but goodie so thought I'd at least get it mentioned.

Kind of similar to the first two Broken Sword games.

Hi oldman

Not under appreciated by me !!

I love it and have played it many times

[So difficult to generate a (short ) list ]

Cheers.

Mad

I loved Riddle of Master Lu, too (although I could have done without the puzzle in the lab). It was a wonderful game. And it runs great in DOSBox!!

Great pick, John! I should have included it on my own list!

Nope Flotsam, I'm just a wizard to the high MaG mucky muck. But endearment now, I'll take all I can get! I alphabetized just for you, dear.

Way to go Nickie, and please apologise to the exhalted one for me.

In no particular order:
1-Myst
2-Zork Nemesis
3-Shivers 1
4-Gabriel Knight: Beast Within
5-Lighthouse
6-Syberia 1
7-Longest Journey
8-Still Life
9-Amber: Journeys Beyond
10-Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
11-Dark Fall: Journal
12-Scratches
13-Riven
14-Myst III
15-Grim Fandango
16-Keepsake
17-Black Mirror
18-Syberia 2
19-Last Half of Darkness
20-Morpheus

Listed alphabetically - going back to the initial release of adventure games on cd-rom media.

Azrael's Tear (1996 Mindscape)
Beyond Atlantis (Atlantis 2)
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1997 Legend Entertainment)
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Damned
Lighthouse (1996 Sierra)
Myst / RealMyst
Myst II: Riven
Myst IV: Revelation
Myst V: End of Ages
Myst URU / POTS
Obsidian (1996 SegaSoft)
RAMA (1996 Sierra)
Riddle of the Sphinx 1
Shivers 1
Syberia 1
Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive (1996 Access Software)
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon (1994 Access Software)
The Longest Journey
TimeLapse (1996 GTE Entertainment)
Zork Nemesis (1996 Activision)

FWIW, I think that Azrael's Tear had the most engaging (winning; attractive; pleasing) storyline of any game I have ever played - perhaps not as deep as the Myst series, but equally as memorable, and eminently replayable.