Ask HN: Great text based games to play?
I help run the Interactive Fiction Database. <a href="https://ifdb.org/" rel="nofollow">https://ifdb.org/</a><p>I think that our list of games ranked by review scores is certainly the finest repository of extraordinary text-based games in the world. <a href="https://ifdb.org/search?browse" rel="nofollow">https://ifdb.org/search?browse</a><p>Every game on that list is fantastic. For your reading convenience, the top ten are: <i>Counterfeit Monkey</i>, <i>Anchorhead</i>, <i>Superluminal Vagrant Twin</i>, <i>80 Days</i>, <i>Hadean Lands</i>, <i>Lost Pig</i>, <i>The Wizard Sniffer</i>, <i>Violet</i>, and <i>The Impossible Bottle</i>.<p>You can click the "Play Online" button on almost any game in IFDB to play it right there in your browser, without downloading anything.<p>IFDB also includes all of the 20th century classics, including Infocom games, but IMO the modern games have long-since outclassed them.<p>If you're curious, here's our list of top-ranked Infocom games. <a href="https://ifdb.org/search?searchfor=tag:infocom" rel="nofollow">https://ifdb.org/search?searchfor=tag:infocom</a> The top-ranked Infocom games are science-fiction games, topped by <i>Trinity</i>, Infocom's surreal "Alice in Wonderland" time-travel game, followed by <i>Planetfall</i> and <i>A Mind Forever Voyaging</i>.