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