Best Games You've Ever Played

[Jester]

Alright, I'm tired and getting easily confused. If I understand correctly, I need a program that can read Blorb files to be able to play these word games, however I cannot find it! Admittedly, I gave up after the first three links, but like I said, getting sleepy here with a touch of a cold. Each site wants me to download pearlBlorb to create my own blorb files, but none of them offer blorb readers for those not interested in creating their own blorbs. Also, where can I get good blorb files to play?

Some more modern games can just run directly in a browser through Parchment: Taco Fiction, on the front page, is like that. For some older games, you need an interpreter, and you need game files. Different games use different interpreters - Glulx, Z-machine, TADS being the big ones. All are available for download. Links to games are found either directly on the page, or with a link to the IFDB, or Baf's Guide.

If you want good games, the easiest place to check are the Xyzzy awards. They're the Oscars of the IF community. Almost everything from the 2008 xyzzy awards was awesome.

If you want my favorites, here's a quick list: Spider and Web, Nightfall, Blue Lacuna, Make it Good, Varicella. All of those can be played online, I think. Those are all pretty hardcore - if you want something lighter, maybe more beatable, try Hoosegow, Violet, or Alabaster.

And, as mentioned earlier in the thread, Steve Meretzky's classic infocom game, A Mind Forever Voyaging, which you may have to go hunting for. But it's well worth it.

-Jester

Edit: Updated Taco Fiction link.