A Peek into the NarraScope

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