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’s the compiled list and how many people selected each.
- (1) A Hero and a Garden
- (1) Abzu
- (1) Adios
- (3) Adventure (Colossal Cave)
- (1) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- (1) AI: The Somnium Files
- (1) Alan Wake
- (1) American Election
- (1) Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
- (1) Analogue: A Hate Story
- (7) Anchorhead
- (1) Andromeda Chained
- (1) Arcade Spirits
- (1) Assassins Creed (series)
- (1) Ataraxia
- (1) Bad Ritual
- (1) Bandersnatch
- (1) The Banner Saga
- (2) Bee
- (1) Beyond: Two Souls
- (3) Bioshock
- (3) Birdland
- (2) Blackwell (series)
- (1) Blood Money
- (1) Blood Nova
- (1) Blue Lacuna
- (1) Brain Guzzlers from Beyond
- (1) Breath of the Wild
- (1) Broken Sword
- (2) Bronze
- (1) But You Seem Fine
- (6) Butterfly Soup (series)
- (1) The Case of the Golden Idol
- (2) Celeste
- (1) A Change in the Weather
- (1) Changeling Charade
- (3) Choice of Robots
- (1) Chyrza
- (5) Citizen Sleeper
- (1) City of Secrets
- (2) Coloratura
- (1) Conquests of the Longbow
- (1) Contrast
- (3) Counterfeit Monkey
- (1) Cragne Manor
- (1) Creatures Such as We
- (2) Creme de la Creme
- (1) Crusader Kings 2
- (2) Crusader Kings 3
- (2) The Curse of Monkey Island
- (1) Curses
- (1) A Dance With Rogues
- (2) Danganronpa
- (1) A Dark Room
- (2) Day of the Tentacle
- (1) Dead Lake Crossing
- (1) Detention
- (4) Detroit: Become Human
- (1) Deus Ex
- (1) Device 6
- (2) Digital: A Love Story
- (1) Dinner Bell
- (16) Disco Elysium
- (1) Divinity Original Sin 2
- (3) Doki Doki Literature Club
- (2) Dragon Age (series)
- (1) Dragon Age Origins
- (1) Dragon Age: Inquisition
- (2) The Dream Machine
- (1) Dual Transform
- (2) Dungeons and Dragons
- (1) Dungeons and Lesbians
- (1) Dwarf Fortress
- (1) Eat Me
- (7) 80 Days
- (2) Elsinore
- (1) Erstwhile
- (1) Evil Overlord
- (1) Fable (series)
- (1) Fabricationist DeWit Remakes the World
- (4) Fallen London
- (2) Fallout
- (1) Fallout 2
- (1) Fallout 3
- (1) Fallout New Vegas
- (1) The Feeble Files
- (1) Fighting Fantasy
- (1) Final Fantasy 7, 10, 13
- (4) Firewatch
- (1) Fish Story
- (1) Fool Me Once
- (1) Fran Bow
- (2) Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
- (1) Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
- (10) Galatea
- (2) Gemini Rue
- (1) Genderwrecked
- (1) Ghost Trick
- (1) God of War
- (1) Gone Home
- (1) Gorogoa
- (1) Grim Fandango
- (1) Gris
- (1) Guardians of the Galaxy
- (1) Guilded Age
- (2) Hadean Lands
- (1) Hades
- (1) Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- (1) Hate Plus
- (1) He Fucked The Girl Out of Me
- (2) Heart of the House
- (1) Heaven Will Be Mine
- (4) Heaven's Vault
- (4) Her Story
- (4) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- (2) Horizon Zero Dawn
- (1) Hotel Dusk: Room 215
- (4) Howling Dogs
- (1) Hybrid
- (1) Hypnospace Outlaw
- (2) I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
- (1) I'm the Echo when You Call
- (2) If Found...
- (1) If it Please the Court
- (1) If On a Winter's Night, Four Travelers
- (1) Imani's Big Question
- (4) Immortality
- (1) In a minute there is time
- (3) In Other Waters
- (1) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- (2) Infocom (all)
- (2) Inside
- (1) The Invisible Hours
- (1) It Takes Two
- (1) Jigsaw
- (2) Joe Dever's Lone Wolf
- (1) Journey
- (1) Katawa Shouju
- (1) Kathy Rain
- (7) Kentucky Route Zero
- (1) Knights of the Old Republic (series)
- (1) Lacuna
- (1) Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires
- (1) Lamplight City
- (6) The Last of Us
- (1) Laura Bow
- (1) Leather Goddesses of Phobos
- (1) Legend of the Red Dragon
- (1) The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
- (3) Life Is Strange
- (1) Life Is Strange: True Colors
- (1) Limbo
- (1) The Little Match Girl (series)
- (1) Long Time Listener, Last Time Caller
- (3) The Longest Journey
- (3) Loom
- (1) Lost Dimension
- (4) Lost Pig
- (1) The Lurking Horror
- (1) Make It Good
- (3) Maniac Mansion
- (1) Manor Hill
- (5) Mass Effect (series)
- (1) McDougall's plushy LARPs
- (1) Midnight Swordfight
- (4) A Mind Forever Voyaging
- (1) Misericorde
- (1) Missed Messages
- (2) Monkey Island 1
- (2) Monkey Island 2
- (1) Monster Prom
- (1) Moonmist
- (2) Mutazione
- (1) Muv Luv
- (1) Myst
- (1) Myst (series)
- (1) Never Date Werewolves
- (3) Night in the Woods
- (1) 9:05
- (4) NORCO
- (2) Once Upon a Time
- (1) One Shot
- (1) Open Sourcery
- (5) Outer Wilds
- (3) Overboard!
- (2) Oxenfree
- (1) Papers, Please
- (1) Paradigm
- (1) Paranoia
- (1) Patchwork Girl
- (1) Pendragon
- (1) Pentiment
- (1) Perfect Tides
- (1) Perfumare
- (1) Persona 3
- (1) Persona 5
- (5) Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
- (6) Photopia
- (1) Pillars of Eternity
- (3) Planescape: Torment
- (1) The Play
- (1) Portopia Serial Murders
- (1) Prawn
- (1) The Prisoner
- (2) Psychonauts
- (2) Queers In Love At The End Of The World
- (1) Quern
- (3) Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness
- (1) Rakuen
- (1) The Red Moon
- (2) Resonance
- (5) Return of the Obra Dinn
- (1) Roadwarden
- (1) The Room
- (1) Rosewater
- (1) Sam and Max Hit the Road
- (3) Scarlet Hollow
- (1) Scents & Semiosis
- (1) Sea++
- (1) Seedship
- (2) Shade
- (1) Shadow of the Colossus
- (2) Shardlight
- (1) Sherlock Holmes (series)
- (1) A Short Hike
- (1) Signs of the Sojourner
- (1) Skybreak!
- (1) Slouching Towards Bedlam
- (1) SOMA
- (1) Sorcery! (series)
- (1) Space Quest 5
- (1) Spider and Web
- (1) Spiritfarer
- (2) Spy Intrigue!
- (2) The Stanley Parable
- (1) Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order
- (1) Stardew Valley
- (1) Starry Flowers
- (1) Starship Edsel
- (1) Steins;Gate
- (1) Subsurface Circular
- (1) Summer in Mara
- (1) Superliminal Vagrant Twin
- (1) Suveh Nux
- (1) Tacoma
- (1) Tales From Off-Peak City
- (1) Tales of Vesperia
- (1) The Talos Principle
- (2) Technobabylon
- (1) The Colonel's Bequest
- (1) The Plague Tale: Innocence
- (2) Thimbleweed Park
- (1) 30 Flights of Loving
- (1) Toby's Nose
- (1) Toffee Trouble in Creamville
- (1) Tokimeki Memorial
- (1) Tomb Raider (2013)
- (1) Toon
- (2) Trinity
- (1) Ultima VI
- (1) Umineko
- (4) Unavowed
- (1) Undertale
- (3) Unpacking
- (1) Until Dawn
- (1) Va-11 Hall-a
- (1) Validate
- (1) Vampire: The Masquerade: Night Road
- (3) The Walking Dead (series)
- (4) What Remains of Edith Finch
- (1) Wildermyth
- (2) Will Not Let Me Go
- (1) The Witcher (series)
- (4) The Witcher 3
- (2) With Those We Love Alive
- (1) The Wizard Sniffer
- (1) The Wolf Among Us
- (1) XCOM 2
- (2) The Yawhg
- (1) A Year of Springs
- (1) You are Neurodivergent as FUCK (and not alone)
- (3) Zelda (series)
- (1) Zelda: Majora's Mask
- (1) Zero Escape (series)
- (3) Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
- (4) Zork