Top Five Underrated Hosted Games 2024

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  • 3Games
  • Apex Patrol
  • Attack of the Clockwork Army
  • Balance of Superpower
  • Balance of Superpower: Tricentennial
  • Blood for Poppies
  • Brother’s War, The
  • Butler Did It, The
  • Captive of Fortune
  • Cinderella: The Day After Ever After
  • Critical Mass: The Bridge
  • Community College Hero: Fun and Games
  • Courting of Miss Bennet
  • Divided We Fall
  • Don’t Wake Me Up
  • Donor
  • Doomsday on Demand 2
  • Double/Cross
  • Elemental Saga
  • Fifty
  • First Year Demons
  • Floating City, The
  • Fortune the Fated
  • Gray Painter, The
  • Harbinger’s Head, The
  • Interstellar Airgap
  • Iron Destinies, The
  • Kepler Colony: Evacuation
  • Kidnapped Prom Queen
  • Knight of the Fellowship
  • Life as a Lich
  • Lost in the Pages
  • Machinations: Fog of War
  • Mage’s Adventure, The
  • My Day Off Work
  • No Proper Thief
  • Paradox Factor
  • Paths to Greatness
  • Planetary Quarantine
  • Raiders of the Icepeak Mountains
  • Saga of Oedipus Rex
  • Sensei’s Story, A
  • Seven Bullets
  • Shadow Horrow, The
  • Silent Gear
  • Starship Adventures
  • Super Star Soccer Striker
  • Sword of the Elements
  • Twelve Trials, The
  • Volunteer Firefighter, The
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Shamelessly plugging The Mage’s Adventures :slight_smile: I put out a 55k word update last year that flew under the radar. Plus it’s my only HG not on Steam :relieved:

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I don’t know why Community College Hero: Fun and Games hasn’t been more successful. Sure, in retrospect I guess I wish Eric Moser had focused on the third installment of the trilogy, but I haven’t given up hope that he’ll get back to writing one day, and then I’ll simply be glad that this delightful little game exists to allow us to spend some uncomplicated downtime with the characters we’ve come to love.

Donor is a genderlocked game without romance, but if you let that stop you, you’ll be missing out. It’s a dark and gripping story with deliciously evil villains and tough dilemmas. If you prefer your vampires with more sheer evil swagger than angst, this game has the bite you’re looking for.

Paradox Factor offers such a unique and fun take on time travel you could almost forget how devastatingly poignant it is. It is a study in the ways that grief warps the world, a maze through the mourning process in search of an ending we can live with. Although I’ve never actually played it in a time of bereavement, it has become one of the stories that I use to explain to myself the journey of loss. This is the kind of story interactive fiction exists to tell.

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Day ever after is hilarious, I second what was said about paradox factor, and divided we fall really deserves more attention. That one admittedly is maybe not the best game, but the story is really good

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Donor is challenging, its one to keep coming back to simply to find out how long you can survive. You don’t have to like or fancy the protagonists to play. Very underrated!

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I agree, Cinderella: The Day After Ever After is such a fun title!

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I just realized I forgot to name a couple of personal “honorable mentions” the way I did for the other poll. I’ll have to go with Blood for Poppies and The Floating City.

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I’d love to see Don’t Wake Me Up get more love. I feel like if it had gone through the IF Comp side of the IF communities, it could have got a lot of attention. I really enjoyed playing it for a lot of reasons, including how it plays with genre and character expectations (which I imagine is part of why it’s in the underrated section).

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I would say that the Balance of Superpower saga had improvements in the second part and potential for a third title. If you don’t believe me, look at the word count in both works.

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butler did it incredibly underrated. everyone go play the butler did it challenge. my new challenge where you play the butler did it

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