Favorite games of NarraScope attendees
(an extremely unscientific data set)
When we set up the registration form, we included the question: "What is your favorite narrative game? Or ten games."
Not everybody filled in that line, but we collected a terrific list of favorite games. Some were verifiable big hits; others were obscurities that just resonated with someone.
Here is the compiled list, along with a chart of the years that the games were originally released.
- (2) 1001 Odysseys
- (1) 2064: Read Only Memories
- (1) 253
- (1) The 7th Guest
- (16) 80 Days
- (1) 999 (The Nonary Game Trilogy)
- (3) 9:05
- (1) Ace Attorney
- (1) Ad Verbum
- (3) Aisle
- (1) Alabaster
- (1) Alan Wake
- (1) All Things Devours
- (1) Amplitude
- (1) Anachronox
- (3) Analogue: A Hate Story
- (6) Anchorhead
- (1) Andrew Plotkin (author)
- (1) Aye Fair Lady
- (1) Babel
- (1) Baldur's Gate
- (1) Baldur's Gate 2
- (3) Bandersnatch
- (1) Banner Saga
- (1) Banshee's Last Cry
- (1) The Baron
- (1) Bee
- (2) The Beginner's Guide
- (1) Bioshock
- (1) Bioshock 2
- (1) Bioshock Infinite
- (2) Birdland
- (1) Blackwell (series)
- (2) Blue Lacuna
- (2) Bogeyman
- (1) Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
- (3) Bronze
- (1) Bury me, my Love
- (2) Butterfly Soup
- (1) Cactus Blue Motel
- (1) Caves of Qud
- (2) A Change in the Weather
- (2) Choice of Broadsides
- (1) Choice of Games (series)
- (2) Choice of Magics
- (1) Choice of Rebels
- (1) Choice of Robots
- (3) Choice of the Deathless
- (1) Choice of the Vampire
- (1) Coloratura
- (1) Colossal Cave
- (1) Community College Hero
- (1) Conquests of the Longbow
- (1) Conversations We Have In My Head
- (6) Counterfeit Monkey
- (3) Cragne Manor
- (1) Creatures Such as We
- (1) Cultist Simulator
- (1) Curses
- (2) CYBERQUEEN
- (3) A Dark Room
- (1) Day of the Tentacle
- (1) The Day the Laughter Stopped
- (1) Deadly Premonition
- (1) Dear Esther
- (2) Depression Quest
- (1) Detritus
- (1) Detroit: Become Human
- (2) Device 6
- (1) Digital: A Love Story
- (1) The Domovoi
- (1) Don't Shit Your Pants
- (1) Dragon Age
- (1) Dream Daddy
- (1) Dream Machine
- (1) Dwarf Fortress
- (2) Eat Me
- (1) EcoQuest
- (1) Emily Short (author)
- (1) Enchanter (series)
- (2) Endless, Nameless
- (1) Epitaph
- (1) Even Cowgirls Bleed
- (1) Everlasting Summer
- (1) Extrasolar
- (1) Extreme Meatpunks Forever
- (1) Fabricationist DeWitt
- (1) Fallen Hero
- (2) Fallen London
- (1) Fallout
- (1) Fallout 2
- (1) Façade
- (1) Final Fantasy 8
- (1) Final Fantasy 9
- (1) Finding Paradise
- (7) Firewatch
- (1) First Draft of the Revolution
- (1) Fran Bow
- (2) Full Throttle
- (1) Gabriel Knight 3
- (2) Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
- (7) Galatea
- (1) Golden Sun
- (10) Gone Home
- (1) Gorogoa
- (1) The Gostak
- (4) Grim Fandango
- (1) Gun Mute
- (2) Hadean Lands
- (1) Harmonia
- (1) Harrowing Adventures
- (2) Hatoful Boyfriend
- (1) Haunted P
- (1) Heavy Rain
- (1) The Heist: Monaco
- (1) Her
- (9) Her Story
- (1) Hero's Quest
- (2) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- (2) Horse Master
- (1) Hotel Dusk 215
- (1) The House in Fata Morgana
- (3) howling dogs
- (2) I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
- (2) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- (3) Jigsaw
- (1) John's Fire Witch
- (1) Journey
- (7) Kentucky Route Zero
- (1) Kerkerkruip
- (1) Kindred Spirits on the Roof
- (2) King of Dragon Pass
- (1) King's Quest (series)
- (1) Kingdom Hearts (series)
- (1) a kiss
- (1) LA Noire
- (1) Ladykiller in a Bind
- (1) Lamplight City
- (1) The Last Day of June
- (1) The Last Door
- (1) The Last Express
- (4) The Last of Us
- (1) Laura Bow
- (1) Legend of Kyrandia
- (1) Leisure Suit Larry
- (1) The Letter
- (10) Life Is Strange
- (1) Life of a Wizard
- (1) Life's Lottery
- (1) Lime Ergot
- (1) Lisa the Painful
- (1) Lone Wolf (series)
- (1) Long Live the Queen
- (1) The Longest Journey
- (2) Loom
- (1) Lost in NY
- (2) Lost Pig
- (2) The Lurking Horror
- (1) Magical Diary
- (1) Make it Good
- (1) Mama Possum
- (1) Mass Effect
- (1) Mecha Ace
- (1) Metal Gear Solid
- (3) A Mind Forever Voyaging
- (1) Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
- (6) Monkey Island (series)
- (1) Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
- (1) Monkey Island: The Curse of Monkey Island
- (2) Monkey Island: The Secret of Monkey Island
- (1) my father's long, long legs
- (5) Myst
- (1) Myst (series)
- (2) Nancy Drew (series)
- (1) Nested
- (1) New England Gothic
- (1) Nier: Automata
- (1) Night House
- (8) Night in the Woods
- (1) A Normal Lost Phone
- (1) Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
- (1) Oregon Trail
- (3) Oxenfree
- (1) The Painscreek Killings
- (1) Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- (1) PaperBlurt (author)
- (1) Papers Please
- (1) Paradox Factor
- (1) Paratopic
- (1) Passage
- (1) Pathologic
- (1) Persona 5
- (4) Photopia
- (1) Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle
- (4) Planescape: Torment
- (3) Planetfall
- (1) Pokemon Yellow
- (1) Porpentine (author)
- (1) Portal
- (1) Portal (1986)
- (1) Prey
- (1) Primordia
- (1) Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly
- (1) Quarterstaff: The Tombs of Setmoth
- (2) Queers in Love at the End of the World
- (1) Quest for Glory
- (1) Quest for Glory (series)
- (1) Quest for Glory IV
- (1) rat chaos
- (1) Red Dead Redemption 2
- (1) Reigns: Her Majesty
- (1) Resonance
- (2) Return of the Obra Dinn
- (2) Riven
- (1) Roberta Williams (author)
- (1) Saga of the North Wind
- (1) Sam and Max Hit the road
- (1) Samurai of Hyuga
- (1) Sand-Dancer
- (2) Sanitarium
- (2) Save the Date
- (2) Savoir Faire
- (1) The Sea Eternal
- (2) The Sea Will Claim Everything
- (3) Shade
- (2) Silent Hill 2
- (1) Six Ages
- (1) Slammed
- (3) Slouching Towards Bedlam
- (3) SOMA
- (1) Sorcerer
- (3) Sorcery!
- (2) Spellbreaker
- (6) Spider and Web
- (5) The Stanley Parable
- (1) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- (1) Stories Untold
- (1) A Study in Steampunk
- (1) Sunless Sea
- (2) Suspended
- (1) Swan Hill
- (1) System Shock
- (2) Taco Fiction
- (1) Tacoma
- (6) Tales from the Borderlands
- (1) Tally Ho
- (1) The Talos Principle
- (1) Thimbleweed Park
- (1) Thirty Flights Of Loving
- (1) Thy Dungeonman
- (1) To The Moon
- (1) Toby's Nose
- (1) TOMBs of Reschette
- (1) Tower of the Blood Lord
- (1) Trapped in Bat Wing Hall
- (5) Trinity
- (2) Unavowed
- (5) the uncle who works for nintendo
- (2) Undertale
- (1) The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
- (1) Varicela
- (4) Violet
- (1) Virginia
- (1) Voyageur
- (6) The Walking Dead
- (1) The Wand
- (1) Wandersong
- (1) We Know the Devil
- (1) What Isn't Saved (Will be Lost)
- (6) What Remains of Edith Finch
- (1) Where the Goats are
- (3) Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
- (1) Whispers of a Machine
- (1) Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft
- (1) The Witcher 3
- (8) With Those We Love Alive
- (1) The Witness
- (3) The Wolf Among Us
- (1) Wolfgirls in Love
- (2) The Writer Will Do Something
- (2) The Yawhg
- (1) Zelda (series)
- (1) Zero Escape
- (1) Zero Escape (series)
- (2) Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
- (1) Zombie Exodus
- (7) Zork
- (2) Zork (series)
- (1) Zork 1
- (1) Zork 2