FAVOURITE GAMES
A list of my favourite ADRIFT games (not in any particular order):
PANIC
by MileOut
The first thing that strikes you when playing Panic is the small size of the font, and also that it's coloured brown on a black background. This doesn't make the whole thing very easy on the eyes and, I suspect, was cause enough for more than a few people to give up in disgust. But persevere (or buy yourself some stronger glasses) and you'll find a very good game here...
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THE PK GIRL
by Hanadorobou
The PK Girl, Hanadorobou's first game for Adrift, is a truly massive piece of interactive fiction. Weighing in at a hefty 1.5 MB including graphics and sound or around 270 KB without, it'd undoubtedly the biggest ever game written for Adrift. And, also undoubtedly, the best...
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MENAGERIE
by DuoDave
Right from the start, you know this is going to be a good game. It has a background, it has a detailed introduction. It's not one of those games where you're dumped in the first location with no explanation of what you're doing there and then have to spend the rest of the game trying to figure out what it's all about. Menagerie is well-written, interesting and the sort of game that we just don't see enough of...
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GOLDILOCKS IS A FOX
by The Amazing Poodle Boy
From the title you might get the impression that this is a rather silly game. You'd be right too...
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SELMA'S WILL
by Mystery
Selma's Will opens with you arriving at the house of your aunt, the late Selma, in an attempt to find her will before her house is sold off by auction. There's an amusing introduction involving Selma's other relatives as a group of money-grabbers intent only on their own personal gain and then the game is fully in swing...
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THE SCREEN SAVERS ON PLANET X
by J. J. Sonick
Some games start out good and then go bad part way through; others start out good and stay that way right to the very end: fortunately The Screen Savers On Planet X is one of the latter variety...
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DOOMED XYCANTHUS
by Eric Mayer
Eric Mayer's first ADRIFT game - Lost - was a strange one with little or no plot. His second - Doomed Xycanthus - was a far different sort of game. Larger, more detailed and plotted - and overall a far better game...
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THE WOODS ARE DARK
by Cannibal
The majority of adventure games that set out to be chilling and scary fail miserably - they're neither chilling, scary or (99% of the time) any good. The Woods Are Dark is one of the few that succeeds...
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THE ADVENTURES OF THUMPER WONDER WOMBAT
by Sarazar
Whether you like this game depends pretty much on your sense of humour - personally I loved it...
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UNRAVELING GOD
by Toddwat
Unraveling God is a strange and unusual game in that, for the most part, it reads more like a novel than an actual piece of interactive fiction. It is also unusual in that it doesn't play in a single time frame: it begins towards the end of the storyline then jumps back to the middle before moving on to the start. While the changing time perspective is often a little confusing (particularly in trying to remember what has happened to the player and what is yet to happen), it's certainly an original way to write an adventure. And it works very well indeed...
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