2017 The List
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Hi all And we are off again. In case you have forgotten or are new, our annual list provides the answer to the question "If I want to play an adventure game, what should I play?". I started it years ago for the self-serving purpose of knowing the answer to that very question. It has been a valuable resource, and not just for me, as well as a bit of annual fun. Since we began, we have increased the number of recommendations you can make, given the proliferation of indie and downloadable games, and we introduced the Hall of Fame, to identify those games that always went well so they didn't need mentioning. It also made room for newbies. Before I get to rules, let me confirm that I promised I wouldn't mention Isabelle, so I wont. So what are the rules? 1. Games in our Hall of Fame are ineligible, for the reason identified above (ie we know they are worth playing else why would they be in the Hall of Fame). Votes for those games won't be counted. Those games are: Amerzone Black Mirror Broken Sword 1 (Circle of Blood, Shadow of the Templars) Dark Fall: The Journal Dreamfall Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within Grim Fandango Longest Journey Lost Crown Lost Horizon Myst Riven Sanitarium Still Life Syberia Syberia 2 Timelapse Zork Nemesis Zork Grand Inquisitor 2. You can recommend a maximum of 20 games. You can choose to recommend less. 3. You cannot recommend a series. If you want to recommend all the Tex Murphy games, that will take separate recommendations, one for each game. 4. Episodic adventures will be counted as one game, regardless of where they are up to in the series. 5. Uru and its add ons will be counted as one game. 6. BadMojo and the Redux version are one game. Ditto any other spruced up releases (eg RHEM 4) 7. Directors cuts and Special Releases will be counted as the same game. 8. Adventure games only (Dark Side games and Casual games get their own lists). 9. PC games please (although if you sneak a console game in I won't tell) If at all possible, please list in alphabetical order - it makes counting so much easier. In doing so, ignore "the" (so The Dark Eye would be under "D" for Dark) The thread stays open for about 3 weeks, and I will (endeavour to) post updates and insights as we go. Please avoid editing your lists after posting because Chief and I count as we go, and may miss a change. have fun thumbsup
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Re: 2017 The List
[Re: flotsam]
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Here is mine: Barrow Hill, The Dark path Carol Reed, Profound Red Dreamfall Chapters Obduction Prominence Quern, Undying Thoughts Sherlock Holmes, The Testament of SH. Tex Murphy, The Tesla Effect URU Yoomurjak's Ring flotsam
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Re: 2017 The List
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Thanks Flotsam
I will make mine simple...since we have been talking and talking of the same old games for years and since most newcomers now have modern machines I limited mine to only the last 5 years. Here are the results
Barrow Hill: The Dark Path Haven Moon Obduction Quern: Undying Thoughts Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
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Re: 2017 The List
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07/02/17 12:11 AM
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Somehow, this gets harder every year, even with the Hall of Fame games. Thanks again, flotsam and Chief! Blackwell Epiphany, The Book of Unwritten Tales, The Cat Lady, The Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller Culpa Innata Dreamfall Chapters Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned Gray Matter Last Crown: Midnight Horror, The Life is Strange King's Quest (episodic) King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow Memoria Moment of Silence, The Night of the Rabbit, The Oxenfree Primordia Technobabylon Thimbleweed Park Walking Dead, The I let Thorsgoats know about the list, and he will post his tomorrow or Monday.
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Re: 2017 The List
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07/02/17 03:53 AM
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7th Guest Carol Reed: Time stand still Cassandra Galleries Erevos Force Majeure II: The Zone Forgotten: It begins Fort Boyard: La Legende Gadget: Invention,Travel,Adventure GAG Golden Gate Hamlet: A Murder Mystery Incarnatia Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage Journey to Wild Divine: The Wisdom Quest Last Half of Darkness: Beyond the Spirit's Eye Legend of Lotus Spring Mirage Night Café Qin Void (1998)
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Re: 2017 The List
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07/02/17 10:45 AM
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The Book of Unwritten Tales The Cat Lady Culpa Innata Downfall Redux Firewatch Dreamfall Chapters Gabriel Knight 3 Gray Matter The Last Crown: Midnight Horror Life is Strange Oxenfree Perry Rhodan Resonance Runaway 1: A Road Adenture Runaway 2: Dream of the Turtle Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate Secret Files: Tunguska Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 2
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Re: 2017 The List
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Re: 2017 The List
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Hi flotsam Despite being heartbroken that you are not going to mention Isabelle I've come up with a list .... It's comprised of (mainly) oldies that I replay A LOT and therefore feel good about recommending - especially as most are now available ready tweaked for modern machines Ark of Time Black Dahlia Black Sails Ghost Ship Blackstone Chronicles Blade Runner Dig (The) Discworld Noir Flight of the Amazon Queen Indy Fate of Atlantis JP III Legacy of Time Kathy Rain Lost in Time Monkey Island Special Edition Murder in the Abbey Return to Zork Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender Riddle of Masterlu Sherlock The Awakened [Re-Mastered] Toonstruck Torin’s Passage
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Re: 2017 The List
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I'm pleased to have caught the voting this time as I just missed the boat the last couple of years! It's so difficult to condense all the games you love into just a list of 20 (even with a lot of your favourites already taken out) but oh well here's my sort of current list: Art of Murder 3: Cards of Destiny Blackwell Deception Broken Sword 5 Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon Cat Lady (The) Cognition Contradiction Echoes of the Past (AGS Freeware - not the Casual Game)Filmmaker (The) Kathy Rain Last Half of Darkness: Society of the Serpent Moon Lifestream Moebius Phantasmagoria Profound Red (A Carol Reed Mystery) Resonance Thimbleweed Park Shady Brook Wolf Among Us (The) Yoomurjak’s Ring
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Re: 2017 The List
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Do: The Talos Principle The Witness not count as adventure games? No one has listed them. And it seems like someone would have if they counted. Definitely two of the best recent games.
Gone Home Firewatch Myst III: Exile Obduction Primordia Quern: Undying Thoughts Return to Mysterious Island Runaway 1: A Road Adenture Schizm: Mysterious Journey Yoomurjak's Ring
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Re: 2017 The List
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I appreciate this chance to compare recently played games to my favorites. It's getting harder and harder to bump the older games off my list, even though some of the new games might be comparable. Just one new game this year.
AGON 4: The Lost Sword of Toledo The Book of Unwritten Tales Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse Culpa Innata Disc World Noir
Dreamfall Chapters Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned Gray Matter The Inner World [new] Machinarium
Memoria A New Beginning Paradise Primordia The Raven
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches Sinking Island Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive Tex Murphy: The Tesla Effect Yoomurjak's Ring
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Re: 2017 The List
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Barrow Hill: The Dark Path
Blackwell Legacy Book of Unwritten Tales Carol Reed: Black Circle Carol Reed: Blue Madonna Carol Reed: Bosch’s Damnation Carol Reed: Color of Murder Carol Reed Profound Red Carol Reed: Time Stand Still Carol Reed: Shades of Black Culpa Innata Discworld Noir Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned Kathy Rain Technobabylon Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect Thimbleweed Park The Wardrobe **** I couldn't get past 19.
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Re: 2017 The List
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07/04/17 06:10 PM
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Lady K,
I noticed you have Timelapse on your list. Timelapse is a Hall of Fame game, so you might want to choose something else.
I did the same thing last year -- nominated a game that was already in the Hall of Fame list.
Oops! I missed that completely. Thanks, Jenny! I will put Rhem 3 in its place.
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Re: 2017 The List
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LadyKestrel, thanks for doing the change this way. It gives flotsam and I a way to see which game you choose as a replacement. Chief
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Re: 2017 The List
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Awwwwww !!!!!!! I hope it doesn't come to that, flotsam
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Re: 2017 The List
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My 2 cents worth! Discworld Noir Grey Matter Indigo Prophesy/Fahrenheit Life Is Strange Portal 2 Atlantis 2 Beyond Atlantis Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnork Blade Runner Gabriel Knight 3 Gemini Rue Keepsake The Last Express Morpheus Outcry Sherlock Holmes Rose Tattoo Shivers The Talos Principle Testement of Sherlock Holmes Vanishing of Ethan Carter Yoomurjak's Ring
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Re: 2017 The List
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Here is my list:
Ankh 1 Broken Sword 2 Discworld 1 Discworld 2 Dreamfall Chapters Kings Quest 7 Legend of Kyrandia 1 Maniac Mansion:Day of the Tentacle Monkey Island 1 Monkey Island 2 Monkey Island 3 Runaway 1 Secret Files Tunguska Simon the Sorcerer 1 Simon the Sorcerer 2 Tales of Monkey Island The Dig The Moment of Silence Tony Tough Night of the Roasted Moths Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
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Re: 2017 The List
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One week down. So far we have a whole bunch of Tex's and Carol's, a couple of Kathy's and Larry's, an Erica and a Nancy here and there, and a few cat ladys to boot Some venerable oldies, and quite a few newies, and already there are some I haven't heard of. Keep them coming
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Re: 2017 The List
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Still having problems understanding what an adventure game is. I've done this two times now, and got some wrong every time lol. Some games googles as adventure games, but are not OK on this list. I guess in time I will get it. Or maybe not. Amber's blood (Carol Reed 8) Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis Black circle (Carol Reed 6) Blue Madonna (Carol Reed 7) Bosch's damnation (Carol Reed 10) Cold case summer (Carol Reed 9) Colour of murder (Carol Reed 5) Contradiction CSI: Crime scene investigation East side story (Carol Reed 4) Her story Hope springs eternal (Carol Reed 2) Kidnapped (Casebook 1) Profound red (Carol Reed 12) Remedy (Carol Reed 1) Shades of black (Carol Reed 11) Snake in the grass (Casebook 3) Time stand still (Carol Reed 3) Watcher (Casebook 2)
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Re: 2017 The List
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1. Agatha Christie: And Then Thee Were None 2. Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express 3. Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer 4. Aura 5. Barron Wittard 6. Barrow Hill 7. Belief and Betrayal 8. Carol Reed: Profound Red 9. Daemonica 10. Dead Reefs 11. Momento Mori 12. NiBiRu: Age of Secrets 13. Outcry 14. Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches 15. Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscriots 16. Seven Games of the Soul 17. Sherlock Holmes: Awakened 18. Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper 19. Sinking Island 20. Still Life
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Re: 2017 The List
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mbday630, Broken Sword 1, Grim Fandango and Lost Horizon can't be voted for as they all are a Hall of Fame games. Refer to the presentation text of the 2017 The List by flotsam to see the Hall of Fame games. If you decide to add games, please make a separate post so that flotsam and I can add your new choice. Thanks. Chief
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Re: 2017 The List
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I like my games dark (shaken not stirred) or real funny My list is: Alone in the Dark (The new Nightmare) Barrow Hill Black Mirror 2 Blackstone Chronicles Broken Sword 2 Dark Fall 2 (Lights out) Darkness Within Dead reefs Dead Secret (my new entry, fresh blood!) Faust: Seven Games of the Soul I have no mouth etc etc Jack the Ripper (the 2004 version) Mystery of the Mummy (Sherlock Holmes) Nibiru Post Mortem Root of Evil (even more fresh blood ..) Runaway A Road Adventure Scratches Secret Files Tunguska After all these Dark Games a: ) Rob
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Re: 2017 The List
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My choices:
Anna Extended Edition Cognition An Erica Reed Thriller Goetia Kentucky Route Zero Last Crown Midnight Horror Stasis
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Re: 2017 The List
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I worked it out Mad - one game can't replace that other one, so I chose two!
Armikrog Blackwell: Epiphany Crows Eye Dream Machine Eyes of Ara Fran Bow Layers of Fear Loom Mysterious Journey Schizm Maize The Minims The Neverhood Outcry Oxenfree Stasis Tales of Cosmos Tesla Effect Thimbleweed Park Tormentum Wolf Among Us Yesterday
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Re: 2017 The List
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1. Among the Sleep 2. Barrow Hill 3.Barrow Hill The Dark Path 4. Botanicula 5. Candle 6. Fire 7. Fran Bow 8. Karma Incarnation 9. Last Crown: Midnight Horror 10. Leaves The Journey 11. Leaves The Return 12. Lumino City 13. Machinarium 14. Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock 15. Nibiru 16. Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate 17. Samorost 3 18 Secret Files 1: Tunguska 19. Tormentum 20. Vanishing of Ethan Carter, The
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Re: 2017 The List
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[ I worked it out Mad - one game can't replace that other one, so I chose two !! ] Hehehe !! Might have known you'd find some sort of a solution, flotsam
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Re: 2017 The List
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And so it ends, and with a new number 1. As always, two lists follow, one numerical, one alphabetical. The numerical list starts with the Hall of Fame games, and they are included in the alphabetical list marked **. As with last year, the numerical list shows placings rather than votes. You can see the votes in the alphabetical list. I have tried in the past to use full as well as alternate titles where I have known them, but I am getting old and there are so many games. I no doubt missed a few. I have also taken some liberties with names to get series together where possible in the alphabetical list, and numbered series games to assist with the order in which they were developed. Be warned - they may not be sequels, just additional games in a series. And when you get prequels, the whole numbering thing falls apart Episodics are marked as well, and they can be confusing too (is Journey Down episodes or sequels??). A couple of rather darkish games crept in, and some that I am not sure are games at all, but we are all friends. Awesome thanks to Chief who helps with the count and apologies up front for any mistakes, which are all mine.
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Re: 2017 The List
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AmerZone: The Explorer’s Legacy Black Mirror Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars/Circle of Blood Dark Fall: The Journal Dreamfall Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers Grim Fandango The Longest Journey The Lost Crown Lost Horizon Myst/RealMyst Riven Sanitarium Still Life Syberia Syberia 2 Timelapse Zork Grand Inquisitor Zork Nemesis
1 Tex Murphy 6: The Tesla Effect
2 Carol Reed 12: Profound Red, The Longest Journey: Dreamfall Chapters (episodic), Yoomurjak's Ring
3 The Book of Unwritten Tales, Kathy Rain
4 Culpa Innata, Discworld 3: Noir, Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, Gray Matter, Monkey Island 1: The Secret of Monkey Island, Thimbleweed Park
5 Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis, Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle, Barrow Hill : The Dark Path, Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse, The Dig, The Last Crown: Midnight Horror, Life is Strange, Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle, Obduction, Oxenfree, Primordia, Quern: Undying Thoughts, Runaway 1: A Road Adventure, Secret Files 1: Tunguska, Tex Murphy 4: Pandora Directive
6 Blackstone Chronicles, Carol Reed 11: Shades of Black, Cat Lady, Morpheus, Myst 3: Exile 4 Outcry/Sublustrum, Scratches, Shivers
7 Agatha Christie 1: And Then There Were None, Amber: Journeys Beyond, Aura 1: Fate of the Ages, Blackwell 5: Epiphany, Blade Runner, Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror, Carol Reed 3: Time Stand Still, Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, Contradiction: Spot the Liars, Dead Reefs, Dark Fall 2: Lights Out3 Faust: Seven Games of the Soul, Firewatch, Fran Bow, Kings Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow, Machinarium, Monkey Island 3: Curse of Monkey Island, Moment of Silence, Murder in the Abbey/The Abbey, Myst: Uru Chronicle, Mysterious Journey 1: Schizm, Niburu, Prominence, Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches, Sherlock Holmes 6: The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, Sinking Island, Tormentum,
8 Alida: The Enigmatic Giant, Anacapri: The Dream, Barron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok, Black Sails: Ghost Ship, The Book of Unwritten Tales 2, Botanicula, Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon, Carol Reed 5: The Colour of Murder, Carol Reed 6: Black Circle, Carol Reed 7: Blue Madonna, Carol Reed 10: Bosch’s Damnation, Conspiracies, Daemonica, Dark Eye 2: Memoria, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Gone Home, Haven Moon, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The Journey Down: Chapter 1, Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time, Keepsake, Kings Quest (episodic), The Last Express, Loom, Memento Mori, Memoria, The Minims, Myst 4: Revelation, Obsidian, Overclocked: A History of Violence, Post Mortem, Resonance, Return to Mysterious Island, Rhem 4: The Golden Fragments, Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate, Samarost 3, Sherlock Holmes 3: The Awakened, Sherlock Holmes 5: Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper, Simon the Sorcerer 1, Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe, Stasis, Talos Principle, Technobabylon, Tex Murphy 3: Under a Killing Moon, Tex Murphy 5: Overseer, Toonstruck, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, The Walking Dead Season 1 (episodic), Zak McKracken and the Alien Mind Benders, The Wolf Among Us (episodic), Witness,
9 The 7th Guest, A New Beginning, Agatha Christie 2: Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie 3: Evil Under the Sun, AGON: The Mysterious Codex (episodic), Alone in the Dark, Among the Sleep, Ankh 1: Reverse the Curse, Anna (Extended Edition), Ark of Time, Armikrog, Arthur’s Knights : Secrets of Merlin, Arthur’s Knights : Tales of Chivalry, Art of Murder 2: Hunt for the Puppeteer, Art of Murder 3: Cards of Destiny, Bad Mojo/Bad Mojo Redux, Belief and Betrayal, Black Dahlia, Black Mirror 2, Blackwell Legacy, Blackwell Deception, Blackwood Crossing, The Book of Unwritten Tales: Critter Chronicles, Candle, Carol Reed 1: Remedy, Carol Reed 2: Hope Springs Eternal, Carol Reed 4: East Side Story, Carol Reed 8: Amber’s Blood, Carol Reed 9: Cold Case Summer, Casebook 1: Kidnapped, Casebook 2: The Watcher, Casebook 3: Snake in the Grass, Cassandra Galleries, The Crows Eye, CSI 1: Crime Scene Investigation, The Dame Was Loaded, The Dark Eye, Dark Fall 3: Lost Souls, Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder, Dead Secret, Deathgate, Deponia, Discworld 1, Discworld 2: Missing Presumed..?/Mortality Bites, Downfall: Redux, Dracula: Origin, The Dream Machine, Dreamweb, Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, Echoes of the Past, Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern, Erevos, Everybody Has Gone to the Rapture, The Eyes of Ara, Feeble Files, The Filmmaker, Fire, Force Majeure 2: The Zone, Forgotten: It Begins, Fort Boyard : La Legende, Gadget: Invention, Travel, Adventure, GAG, Gemini Rue, Goetia, Golden Gate, Green Moon, Hamlet: A Murder Mystery, Her Story, I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream, Incarnatia, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indigo Prophecy/Farenheit, Infectious Madness of Dr. Dekker, The Inner World, Jack the Ripper, The Journey Down: Chapter 2, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage, Journey to Wild Divine: The Wisdom Quest, J.U.L.I.A. Among the Stars, Karma Incarnation, Kentucky Route Zero, Kings Quest 4: The Perils of Rosella, Kings Quest 7: The Princeless Bride, Last Half of Darkness: Beyond the Spirit Eye, Last Half of Darkness: Society of the Serpent Moon, Layers of Fear, Leaves 1: The Journey, Leaves 2: The Return, Legend of Kyrandia 1: Fables and Fiends, The Legend of Lotus Spring, Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards/Reloaded, Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals, Lifestream, Lighthouse: The Dark Being, Lost in Time, Lumino City, Maize, Maniac Mansion, Mirage, Moebius: Empire Rising, Monkey Island 2: Le Chuck’s Revenge, Monkey Island: Tales of Monkey Island (episodic), Morningstar: Decent to Deadrock, Myst 5: End of Ages, Nancy Drew 11: Curse of the Blackmoor Manor, Nancy Drew 13: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon, Nelly Cootalot 2: The Fowl Fleet, The Neverhood, Next Life, Night Café, Night of the Rabbit, Paradise, Perry Rhodan: Immortals of Terra, Phantasmagoria 1: A New Nightmare, Police Quest 1: In Pursuit of the Death Angel, Police Quest 2: The Vengeance, Police Quest 3: The Kindred, Police Quest 4: Open Season, Portal 2, Puzzle Agent, Quest For Glory 5: Dragonfire, Qin, Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief, Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender, Rhem 2: The Cave, Rhem 3: The Secret Library, The Riddle of Master Liu, Riddle of the Sphinx 1: An Egyptian Adventure, Room, Room 2, Root of Evil, Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle, Safecracker, Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis, Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript, Shady Brook, Shannara, Shardlight, Sherlock Holmes Lost Files: Case of the Rose Tattoo, Sherlock Holmes; Mystery of the Mummy, Sherlock Holmes 4: Nemesis/vs Arsene Lupin, Space Bar, Starship Titanic, Tales of Cosmos, Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, Tony Tough and the Night of the Roasted Moths, Torin’s Passage, Void, The Walking Dead Season 2 (episodic), The Wardrobe, The Whispered World 2: Silence, Xing (demo), Yesterday, Zork: Return to Zork
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1 The 7th Guest
1 A New Beginning 3 Agatha Christie 1: And Then There Were None 1 Agatha Christie 2: Murder on the Orient Express 1 Agatha Christie 3: Evil Under the Sun 1 AGON: The Mysterious Codex (episodic) 2 Alida: The Enigmatic Giant 1 Alone in the Dark 3 Amber: Journeys Beyond 1 Among the Sleep ** AmerZone: The Explorer’s Legacy** 2 Anacapri: The Dream 1 Ankh 1: Reverse the Curse 1 Anna (Extended Edition) 1 Ark of Time 1 Armikrog 1 Arthur’s Knights : Secrets of Merlin 1 Arthur’s Knights : Tales of Chivalry 1 Art of Murder 2: Hunt for the Puppeteer 1 Art of Murder 3: Cards of Destiny 5 Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis 3 Aura 1: Fate of the Ages
1 Bad Mojo/Bad Mojo Redux 2 Barron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok 5 Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle 5 Barrow Hill: The Dark Path 1 Belief and Betrayal 1 Black Dahlia ** Black Mirror** 1 Black Mirror 2 2 Black Sails: Ghost Ship 4 Blackstone Chronicles 1 Blackwell Legacy 1 Blackwell Deception 3 Blackwell 5: Epiphany 1 Blackwood Crossing 3 Blade Runner 7 The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 1 The Book of Unwritten Tales: Critter Chronicles 2 Botanicula ** Broken Sword 1: Shadow of the Templars/Circle of Blood** 3 Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror 5 Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse
2 Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon 1 Candle 1 Carol Reed 1: Remedy 1 Carol Reed 2: Hope Springs Eternal 3 Carol Reed 3: Time Stand Still 1 Carol Reed 4: East Side Story 2 Carol Reed 5: The Colour of Murder 2 Carol Reed 6: Black Circle 2 Carol Reed 7: Blue Madonna 1 Carol Reed 8: Amber’s Blood 1 Carol Reed 9: Cold Case Summer 2 Carol Reed 10: Bosch’s Damnation 4 Carol Reed 11: Shades of Black 8 Carol Reed 12: Profound Red 1 Casebook 1: Kidnapped 1 Casebook 2: The Watcher 1 Casebook 3: Snake in the Grass 1 Cassandra Galleries 4 Cat Lady 3 Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller 3 Contradiction: Spot the Liars 2 Conspiracies 1 The Crows Eye 1 CSI 1: Crime Scene Investigation 6 Culpa Innata 2 Daemonica 1 The Dame Was Loaded 2 Dark Eye 2: Memoria 1 The Dark Eye ** Dark Fall 1: The Journal** 3 Dark Fall 2: Lights Out 1 Dark Fall 3: Lost Souls 1 Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder 3 Dead Reefs 1 Dead Secret 1 Deathgate 1 Deponia 5 The Dig 1 Discworld 1 1 Discworld 2: Missing Presumed..?/Mortality Bites 6 Discworld 3: Noir 1 Downfall: Redux 1 Dracula: Origin 1 The Dream Machine 1 Dreamweb 1 Dust: A Tale of the Wired West
1 Echoes of the Past 1 Echoes: Secrets of the Lost Cavern 1 Erevos 1 Everybody Has Gone to the Rapture 1 The Eyes of Ara
3 Faust: Seven Games of the Soul 1 Feeble Files 1 The Filmmaker 1 Fire 3 Firewatch 2 Flight of the Amazon Queen 1 Force Majeure 2, the Zone 1 Forgotten: It Begins 1 Fort Boyard, La Legende 3 Fran Bow
** Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers** ** Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within** 6 Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned 1 Gadget: Invention, Travel, Adventure 1 GAG 1 Gemini Rue 1 Goetia 1 Golden Gate 2 Gone Home 6 Gray Matter 1 Green Moon ** Grim Fandango**
1 Hamlet: A Murder Mystery 2 Haven Moon 1 Her Story
1 I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream 1 Incarnatia 2 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis 1 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1 Indigo Prophecy/Farenheit 1 Infectious Madness of Dr. Dekker 1 Inner World
1 Jack the Ripper 2 The Journey Down: Chapter 1 1 The Journey Down: Chapter 2 1 Journey to the Centre of the Earth 1 Journey to Wild Divine 1: The Passage 1 Journey to Wild Divine 2: The Wisdom Quest 2 Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time 1 J.U.L.I.A. Among the Stars
1 Karma Incarnation 7 Kathy Rain 2 Keepsake 1 Kentucky Route Zero 1 Kings Quest 4: The Perils of Rosella 3 Kings Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow 1 Kings Quest 7: The Princeless Bride 2 Kings Quest (episodic)
2 The Last Express 1 Last Half of Darkness: Beyond the Spirit Eye 1 Last Half of Darkness: Society of the Serpent Moon 1 Layers of Fear 5 The Last Crown: Midnight Horror 1 Leaves 1: The Journey 1 Leaves 2: The Return 1 Legend of Kyrandia 1: Fables and Fiends 1 The Legend of Lotus Spring 1 Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards/Reloaded 1 Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals 5 Life is Strange 1 Lifestream 1 Lighthouse: The Dark Being ** The Longest Journey** ** The Longest Journey 2: Dreamfall** 8 The Longest Journey: Dreamfall Chapters 2 Loom **The Lost Crown** 1 Lost in Time ** Lost Horizon** 1 Lumino City
3 Machinarium 1 Maize 1 Maniac Mansion 5 Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle 2 Memento Mori 2 Memoria 2 The Minims 1 Mirage 1 Moebius: Empire Rising 3 Moment of Silence 6 Monkey Island 1: The Secret of Monkey Island 1 Monkey Island 2: Le Chuck’s Revenge 3 Monkey Island 3: Curse of Monkey Island 1 Monkey Island: Tales of Monkey Island (episodic) 1 Morningstar: Decent to Deadrock 4 Morpheus 3 Murder in the Abbey/ The Abbey ** Myst/RealMyst** ** Myst 2: Riven** 4 Myst 3: Exile 2 Myst 4: Revelation 1 Myst 5: End of Ages 3 Myst: Uru Chronicles 3 Mysterious Journey 1: Schizm
1 Nancy Drew 11: Curse of the Blackmoor Manor 1 Nancy Drew 13: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon 1 Nelly Cootalot 2: The Fowl Fleet 1 The Neverhood 1 Next Life 3 Niburu 1 Night Café 1 Night of the Rabbit 5 Obduction 2 Obsidian 4 Outcry/Sublustrum 2 Overclocked: A History of Violence 5 Oxenfree
1 Paradise 1 Perry Rhodan: Immortals of Terra 1 Phantasmagoria 1: A New Nightmare 1 Police Quest 1: In Pursuit of the Death Angel 1 Police Quest 2: The Vengeance 1 Police Quest 3: The Kindred 1 Police Quest 4: Open Season 1 Portal 2 2 Post Mortem 5 Primordia 3 Prominence 1 Puzzle Agent
5 Quern, Undying Thoughts 1 Quest For Glory 5: Dragonfire 1 Qin
1 Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief 2 Resonance 2 Return to Mysterious Island 1 Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender 1 Rhem 2: The Cave 1 Rhem 3: The Secret Library 2 Rhem 4: The Golden Fragments 3 Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches 1 The Riddle of Master Liu 1 Riddle of the Sphinx 1: An Egyptian Adventure 1 Room 1 Room 2 1 Root of Evil 5 Runaway 1: A Road Adventure 1 Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle 2 Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate
1 Safecracker 2 Samarost 3 ** Sanitarium** 4 Scratches 5 Secret Files 1: Tunguska 1 Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis 1 Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript 1 Shady Brook 1 Shannara 1 Shardlight 1 Sherlock Holmes Lost Files: Case of the Rose Tattoo 1 Sherlock Holmes; Mystery of the Mummy 2 Sherlock Holmes 3: The Awakened 1 Sherlock Holmes 4: Nemesis/vs Arsene Lupin 2 Sherlock Holmes 5: Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper 3 Sherlock Holmes 6: The Testament of Sherlock Holmes 4 Shivers 2 Simon the Sorcerer 1 2 Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe 3 Sinking Island 1 Space Bar 1 Starship Titanic ** Still Life 1 (sequel to Post Mortem)** 2 Stasis ** Syberia 1** ** Syberia 2**
1 Tales of Cosmos 2 Talos Principle 2 Technobabylon 2 Tex Murphy 3: Under a Killing Moon 5 Tex Murphy 4: Pandora Directive 2 Tex Murphy 5: Overseer 10 Tex Murphy 6: The Tesla Effect 6 Thimbleweed Park ** Timelapse** 1 Titanic: Adventure Out of Time 1 Tony Tough and the Night of the Roasted Moths 2 Toonstruck 1 Torin’s Passage 3 Tormentum
2 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter 1 Void
2 Walking Dead Season 1 (episodic) 1 Walking Dead Season 2 (episodic) 1 The Wardrobe 1 The Whispered World 2; Silence 2 Witness 2 The Wolf Among Us (episodic)
1 Xing (demo)
1 Yesterday 8 Yoomurjak's Ring
2 Zak McKracken and the Alien Mind Benders ** Zork Grand Inquisitor** ** Zork Nemesis** 1 Zork: Return to Zork
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Thank you so much flotsam and chief for your hard work of tallying the games! Much appreciated! Ana
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Thank you flotsam & Chief for your hard work on putting these lists together! I enjoyed reading the top choices of others & my own list of 'must plays' grows forever longer! There's just one thing if you don't mind me mentioning - I was curious to see who else had voted for Echoes of the Past which received 2 votes but I could only find the 1 vote for Echo - Secrets of the Lost Cavern which is a much older & completely different game. Echoes of the Past is a relatively recent AGS Freeware game actually set, unlike Secrets of the Lost Cavern, in the present day.
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chrissie, it should state 1 Echoes of the Past and 1 Echo-Secrets of the Lost Cavern. You are correct. Unfortunately (and fortunately), when using Excel and you start to type, it finishes your sentence with something previous to auto complete. I'm sure that's what happened. Ana
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Bravo flotsam and Chief for yet another magnificent job completed !!!! We all very much appreciate the time and effort you have put in
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Thanks chrissie - i will sort! Tis done.
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Thanks very much for another great year of the list, flotsam and Chief! I was happy to see many of my favorites did so well, Dreamfall Chapters in particular. It's especially interesting to see what people come up with without being able to vote for the Hall of Fame games.
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