about 48 hours left! I had better post mine soon

Still no Isabelle
if I was the sulky type I would refuse to publish the results

Sorry, Flotsam, but there's no Mac version for me to play.

Actually, I just checked the rules and it doesn't say you can't recommend the same game more than once - so guess what that means

I will post the results in the morning!

Thanks flotsam!

Ana

ok here is mine

Alida
Byzantine
Blackstone Chronicles
Black Dahlia
Dreamfall
Faust
Isabelle
LHOD - Tomb of Zojir
Loom
Machinarium
Morpheus
Mysterious Journey Schizm
The NEXT Big Thing
The Neverhood
Outcry
Perry Rhodan
RHEM
Sentinel
Still Life
Yoormujaks Ring

Twenty votes for Isabelle? She waltzes into the Hall of Fame?


Gil.

Hi all,
Another year, a new list, and a very first (and nothing to do with Isabelle)!
It doesn’t get much closer than the final result. I still haven’t played one of them so perhaps that would have made the difference.
The Sherlocks probably did the best as a group, and some older venerable games are making their way back up the list. Good games just keep on keeping on.
Anyway, lets get on with it.
As always, two lists follow, one numerical, one alphabetical. I have started the numerical list with the Hall of Fame games, and included the Hall of Fame games in the alphabetical list. They are marked **.
I have used full as well as alternate titles where I have known them, and in the numeric list, I have tried to use actual titles, the games on my shelf having the final say (including those that are numbered). It isn’t perfect, but what is.
I have taken some liberties with names in the alphabetical list to get series together where possible. It wasn’t always possible, so on a couple of occasions I have marked a game as a sequel.
As I did last year, I have numbered the series games to assist people with the order in which they were developed. They may not be sequels, just additional games in a series.
It can get confusing - there are a number of Dracula games, some in a series and some not. Ditto some others. Fan games complicate things a little further. Hopefully it is reasonably clear.
Thanks to Chief who verified the count, and if errors remain, they are all mine.

** AmerZone: The Explorer’s Legacy
** Black Mirror
** Dark Fall: The Journal
** Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
** Grim Fandango
** The Longest Journey
**The Lost Crown
** Myst/RealMyst
** Riven
** Sanitarium
** Syberia
** Syberia 2
** Timelapse
** Zork Grand Inquisitor
** Zork Nemesis

16 Dreamfall
16 Lost Horizon
16 Still Life

15 Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
15 Secret Files: Tunguska

14 Gray Matter
14 Yoomurjak's Ring


13 Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars/Circle of Blood
13 Scratches

12 Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis/vs Arsene Lupin

11 Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle
11 Black Mirror 2
11 Book of Unwritten Tales
11 Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
11 Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
11 Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper

10 Culpa Innata
10 Dracula: Origin
10 Moment of Silence

9 Last Half of Darkness: Tomb of Zojir
9 Machinarium
9 Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis
9 Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive

8 Carol Reed: Ambers Blood
8 Dark Fall: Lights Out
8 Morpheus
8 Myst 3: Exile
8 Overclocked: A History of Violence
8 Post Mortem

7 Black Mirror 3
7 Dark Fall: Lost Souls
7 Monkey Island: The Secret of Monkey Island
7 Myst: Uru Chronicles
7 Nibiru
7 Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches
7 Riddle of the Sphinx: An Egyptian Adventure
7 Runaway: A Road Adventure
7 Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript

6 Alida: The Enigmatic Giant
6 Amber: Journeys Beyond
6 Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer
6 Aura: Fate of the Ages
6 Black Dahlia
6 Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
6 Carol Reed: Black Circle
6 Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
6 Last Half of Darkness: Society of the Serpent Moon
6 Memento Mori
6 Mysterious Journey: Schizm
6 Obsidian
6 Return to Mysterious Island
6 Rhem
6 Rhem 3: The Secret Library
6 Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Silver Earring/Secret of the Silver Earring

5 Anacapri: The Dream
5 Atlantis: Beyond Atlantis
5 Blackstone Chronicles
5 Botanicula
5 The Dig
5 Keepsake
5 Lighthouse: The Dark Being
5 The NEXT Big Thing
5 Paradise
5 Phantasmagoria: A New Nightmare
5 Rhem 2: The Cave
5 Sentinel: Descendants in Time/Realms of Illusion
5 Shivers
5 Titanic: Adventure out of Time

4 Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None
4 Alter Ego
4 Ankh: Reverse the Curse
4 Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
4 Discworld
4 Dracula: Resurrection
4 Faust: Seven Games of the Soul
4 Jack Keane
4 Kings Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
4 Last Half of Darkness: Beyond the Spirit’s Eye
4 Legend of Kyrandia 1: Fables and Fiends
4 Loom
4 Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle
4 The Curse of Monkey Island
4 Myst 4: Revelation
4 The Neverhood
4 Outcry/Sublustrum
4 Rhem 4: The Golden Fragments
4 Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate
4 Simon the Sorcerer
4 So Blonde
4 Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon

3 7th Guest
3 15 Days
3 80 Days
3 Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
3 AGON: The Mysterious Codex (episodic)
3 Ankh: Heart of Osiris
3 Aura 2: The Sacred Rings
3 Barron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok
3 Belief and Betrayal
3 Byzantine: The Betrayal
3 Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon
3 Carol Reed: Blue Madoona
3 Destination Treasure Island
3 Discworld 2: Missing Presumed..?/Mortality Bites
3 Discworld 3: Noir
3 Dracula: The Last Sanctuary
3 Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
3 Edna and Harvey: The Breakout
3 The Filmmaker
3 Goin’ Downtown
3 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
3 Kings Quest 7: The Princeless Bride
3 Martin Mystere: Operation Dorian Grey/Crime Stories
3 Monkey Island 2: Le Chuck’s Revenge
3 Myst 5: End of Ages
3 Next Life
3 Nostrodamus: The Last Prophecy
3 Perry Rhodan: Myth of the Illochim/ Immortals of Terra
3 Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of the Flesh
3 Riddle of the Sphinx 2: The Omega Stone
3 Sinking Island
3 Still Life 2

2 Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun, Atlantis 3: The New World , Beneath a Steel Sky, Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon, Ceville, Conspiracies 2: Lethal Networks, The Dark Eye, Dear Esther, Death Gate, Dragonsphere, Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island, Jolly Rover, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Kings Quest 4: The Perils of Rosella, Kings Quest 8: Mask of Eternity, Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate, Mission Critical, Monkey Island: Tales of Monkey Island (episodic), Murder in the Abbey/ The Abbey, Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle, Safecracker 2006, Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy, Shadow of Destiny/Shadow of Memories, Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe, Tale of a Hero, Tex Murphy: Overseer, The Whispered World


1 5 Magical Amulets, 11th Hour, A Quiet Weekend in Capri, Adam’s Venture (episodic), Alfred Hitchcock: The Final Cut, Alpha Polaris, Apprentice, The Arrangement, Art of Murder: FBI Confidential, Atlantis Evolutions, Atlantis: The Lost Tales, Bad Mojo, Ballads of Remus: When the Bed Bites, Ben Jordan Paranormal Investigator: Deluxe, Ben Jordan Paranormal Investigator: Horror at Number 50, Ben Jordan Paranormal Investigator: Scourge of the Sea People, Blackwell: Deception, Blackwell: Unbound, Blade Runner, Bone, Broken Sword: The Angel of Death/Secrets of the Ark, Bureaucracy, Byzantine: The Betrayal, Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness, Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle, Carol Reed: Colour of Murder, Carol Reed: East Side Story, Carol Reed: Time Stand Still, Carte Blanche, Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual, City of Secrets, Cleopatra: A Queen’s Destiny/Riddle of the Tomb, Conspiracies, Corrosion: Cold Winter Waiting, Crystal Key 2: Evany, CSI: Hard Evidence, CSI: New York, Curses, The Dame Was Loaded, Dark Side of the Moon, Dead Reefs, Diamon Jones: Amulet of the World, Diamon Jones: Eye of the Dragon, Diamonds in the Rough, Dracula 3: Path of the Dragon, The Egyptian Prophecy/The Fate of Ramses, Escape from Monkey Island, Everlight: Of Magic and Power, Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, The Feeble Files, Force Majeure 2: The Zone, The Forgotten : It Begins, Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure, Gemini Rue, Ghost in the Sheet, Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria, Gobliins, Golden Gate, Hector: Badge of Carnage, Hero’s Quest, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Isabelle, Jazz & Faust, Journey Down, Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage, Journey to Wild Divine: Wisdom Quest, J.U.L.I.A, Kaptain Braw, Kings Quest 5: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder, KnightSquire, Labyrinth of Time, Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat, The Last Express, Last Half of Darkness 1: Shadows of the Servants, Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra, The Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin, The Legend of Lotus Spring, Leisure Suit Larry: In the Land Lounge Lizards, Leisure Suit Larry 3: In Pursuit of Pulsating Pectorals, Lost in Time, The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Serated Scalpel, Midnight Nowhere, Mirage, Mummy: Tomb of the Pharaoh, Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen, Noir: A Shadowy Thriller, Opera Fatal, Police Quest: Pursuit of the Death Angel, Police Quest 4 : Open Season, Qin: Tomb of the Middle Kingdom, Rama, Reah, Return to Mysterious Island 2: Mina’s Fate, Riddle of Master Liu, Salammbo: Battle for Carthage, Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse (episodic), Sam & Max Hit the Road, Sherlock Holmes: Mystery of the Mummy, Shivah, Shivers 2: Harvest of Souls, Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens, Soviet Unterzoegersdorf, Space Bar, Starship Titanic, Star Trek Judgment Rites, Superhero League of Hoboken, Tony Tough and the Night of the Roasted Moths, Torin’s Passage, To The Moon, Ugly Prince Duckling, Vampyre Story, Voyage/Journey to the Centre of the Moon, Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Adventures (episodic), Zak McKracken and the Alien Mind Benders, Zelenhgorm: Legend of the Blue Moon, Zork: Return to Zork

1 5 Magical Amulets
3 7th Guest
1 11th Hour
3 15 Days
3 80 Days

1 A Quiet Weekend in Capri
1 Adam’s Venture (episodic)
4 Agatha Christie 1: And Then There Were None
2 Agatha Christie 3: Evil Under the Sun
3 Agatha Christie 2: Murder on the Orient Express
3 AGON: The Mysterious Codex (episodic)
1 Alfred Hitchcock: The Final Cut
6 Alida: The Enigmatic Giant
1 Alpha Polaris
4 Alter Ego
6 Amber: Journeys Beyond
** AmerZone: The Explorer’s Legacy
5 Anacapri: The Dream (sequel to Quiet Weekend in Capri)
4 Ankh 1: Reverse the Curse
3 Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris
1 Apprentice
1 Arrangement, The
1 Art of Murder 1: FBI Confidential
6 Art of Murder 2: Hunt for the Puppeteer
1 Atlantis Evolutions
1 Atlantis 1: The Lost Tales
5 Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis
2 Atlantis 3: The New World
6 Aura 1: Fate of the Ages
3 Aura 2: The Sacred Rings

1 Bad Mojo
1 Ballads of Remus: When the Bed Bites
3 Barron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok
11 Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle
3 Belief and Betrayal
2 Beneath a Steel Sky
1 Ben Jordan Paranormal Investigator 1: Deluxe
1 Ben Jordan Paranormal Investigator 4: Horror at Number 50
1 Ben Jordan Paranormal Investigator 6: Scourge of the Sea People
6 Black Dahlia
** Black Mirror
11 Black Mirror 2
7 Black Mirror 3
5 Blackstone Chronicles
1 Blackwell 4: Deception
1 Blackwell 2: Unbound
1 Blade Runner
11 Book of Unwritten Tales
1 Bone
5 Botanicula
13 Broken Sword 1: Shadow of the Templars/Circle of Blood
6 Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
2 Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon
1 Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death/Secrets of the Ark
1 Bureaucracy
2 Byzantine: The Betrayal

3 Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon
1 Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness
1 Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle
8 Carol Reed 8: Ambers Blood
6 Carol Reed 6: Black Circle
3 Carol Reed 7: Blue Madoona
1 Carol Reed 5: Colour of Murder
1 Carol Reed 4: East Side Story
1 Carol Reed 3: Time Stand Still
1 Carte Blanche
2 Ceville
1 Chronicles of Mystery 1: The Scorpio Ritual
1 City of Secrets
1 Cleopatra: A Queen’s Destiny/Riddle of the Tomb
1 Conspiracies 1
2 Conspiracies 2: Lethal Networks
1 Corrosion: Cold Winter Waiting
1 Crystal Key 2: Evany
1 CSI: Hard Evidence
1 CSI: New York
10 Culpa Innata
1 Curses

1 Dame Was Loaded, The
2 Dark Eye, The
** Dark Fall 1: The Journal
8 Dark Fall 2: Lights Out
7 Dark Fall 3: Lost Souls
1 Dark Side of the Moon
4 Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
1 Dead Reefs
2 Dear Esther
2 Death Gate
3 Destination Treasure Island
1 Diamon Jones: Amulet of the World
1 Diamon Jones: Eye of the Dragon
1 Diamonds in the Rough
5 Dig, The
4 Discworld 1
3 Discworld 2: Missing Presumed..?/Mortality Bites
3 Discworld 3: Noir
10 Dracula: Origin
4 Dracula 1: Resurrection
3 Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary
1 Dracula 3: Path of the Dragon
2 Dragonsphere

3 Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
3 Edna and Harvey: The Breakout
1 Egypt 3: The Egyptian Prophecy/The Fate of Ramses
1 Everlight: Of Magic and Power

1 Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy
4 Faust: Seven Games of the Soul
1 Feeble Files
3 Filmmaker, The
1 Force Majeure 2: The Zone
1 Forgotten : It Begins

15 Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers
** Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
11 Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
1 Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure
1 Gemini Rue
1 Ghost in the Sheet
2 Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island
1 Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria
1 Gobliins
3 Goin’ Downtown
1 Golden Gate
14 Gray Matter
** Grim Fandango

1 Hector: Badge of Carnage
1 Hero’s Quest

1 I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
3 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
1 Isabelle

4 Jack Keane
1 Jazz & Faust
2 Jolly Rover
1 Journey Down
2 Journey to the Centre of the Earth
1 Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage
1 Journey to Wild Divine: Wisdom Quest
6 Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
1 J.U.L.I.A

1 Kaptain Braw
5 Keepsake
2 Kings Quest 4: The Perils of Rosella
1 Kings Quest 5: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
4 Kings Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
3 Kings Quest 7: The Princeless Bride
2 Kings Quest 8: Mask of Eternity
1 KnightSquire

1 Labyrinth of Time
1 Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat
1 Last Express, The
1Last Half of Darkness 1: Shadows of the Servants
4 Last Half of Darkness 2: Beyond the Spirit’s Eye
9 Last Half of Darkness 3: Tomb of Zojir
6 Last Half of Darkness 4: Society of the Serpent Moon
1 Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra
4 Legend of Kyrandia 1: Fables and Fiends
2 Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate
1 Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin
1 Legend of Lotus Spring
1 Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land Lounge Lizards
1 Leisure Suit Larry 3: In Pursuit of Pulsating Pectorals
5 Lighthouse: The Dark Being
** Longest Journey, The
16 Longest Journey 2: Dreamfall
4 Loom
** Lost Crown, The
16 Lost Horizon
1 Lost in Time
1 The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Serated Scalpel

9 Machinarium
4 Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle
3 Martin Mystere: Operation Dorian Grey/Crime Stories
6 Memento Mori
1 Midnight Nowhere
1 Mirage
2 Mission Critical
10 Moment of Silence
7 Monkey Island 1: The Secret of Monkey Island
3 Monkey Island 2: Le Chuck’s Revenge
4 Monkey Island 3: Curse of Monkey Island
1 Monkey Island 4: Escape from Monkey Island
2 Monkey Island: Tales of Monkey Island (episodic)
8 Morpheus
1 Mummy: Tomb of the Pharaoh
2 Murder in the Abbey/ The Abbey
** Myst/RealMyst
** Myst 2: Riven
8 Myst 3: Exile
4 Myst 4: Revelation
3 Myst 5: End of Ages
7 Myst: Uru Chronicles
6 Mysterious Journey 1: Schizm

1 Nancy Drew 7: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake
2 Nancy Drew 26: Tomb of the Lost Queen
4 Neverhood
5 NEXT Big Thing, The
3 Next Life
7 Nibiru
1 Noir: A Shadowy Thriller
3 Nostrodamus: The Last Prophecy

6 Obsidian
1 Opera Fatal
4 Outcry/Sublustrum
8 Overclocked: A History of Violence

5 Paradise
3 Perry Rhodan: Myth of the Illochim/ Immortals of Terra
5 Phantasmagoria 1: A New Nightmare
3 Phantasmagoria 2: Puzzle of the Flesh
1 Police Quest 1: Pursuit of the Death Angel
1 Police Quest 4 : Open Season
8 Post Mortem

1 Qin: Tomb of the Middle Kingdom

1 Rama
1 Reah
6 Return to Mysterious Island
1 Return to Mysterious Island 2: Mina’s Fate
6 Rhem 1
5 Rhem 2: The Cave
6 Rhem 3: The Secret Library
4 Rhem 4: The Golden Fragments
7 Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches
1 Riddle of Master Liu
7 Riddle of the Sphinx: An Egyptian Adventure
3 Riddle of the Sphinx 2: The Omega Stone
7 Runaway 1: A Road Adventure
2 Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
4 Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate

2 Safecracker 2006
1 Salammbo: Battle for Carthage
1 Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse (episodic)
1 Sam & Max Hit the Road
** Sanitarium
13 Scratches
15 Secret Files 1: Tunguska
9 Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis
2 Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy
7 Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript
5 Sentinel: Descendants in Time/Realms of Illusion
2 Shadow of Destiny/Shadow of Memories
1 Sherlock Holmes 1: Mystery of the Mummy
6 Sherlock Holmes 2: Case of the Silver Earring/Secret of the Silver Earring
11 Sherlock Holmes 3: The Awakened
12 Sherlock Holmes 4: Nemesis/vs Arsene Lupin
11 Sherlock Holmes 5: Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper
1 Shivah
5 Shivers 1
1 Shivers 2: Harvest of Souls
4 Simon the Sorcerer 1
2 Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
1 Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens
3 Sinking Island
4 So Blonde
1 Soviet Unterzoegersdorf
1 Space Bar
1 Starship Titanic
1 Star Trek Judgment Rites
16 Still Life 1 (sequel to Post Mortem)
3 Still Life 2
1 Superhero League of Hoboken
** Syberia 1
** Syberia 2

2 Tale of a Hero
4 Tex Murphy 3: Under a Killing Moon
9 Tex Murphy 4: Pandora Directive
2 Tex Murphy 5: Overseer
** Timelapse
5 Titanic: Adventure out of Time
1 Tony Tough and the Night of the Roasted Moths
1 Torin’s Passage
1 To The Moon

1 Ugly Prince Duckling

1 Vampyre Story
1 Voyage/Journey to the Centre of the Moon

1 Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Adventures (episodic)
2 Whispered World, The

14 Yoomurjak's Ring

1 Zak McKracken and the Alien Mind Benders
1 Zelenhgorm: Legend of the Blue Moon
** Zork Grand Inquisitor
** Zork Nemesis
1 Zork: Return to Zork

Thank you very much, flotsam and Chief!

We really appreciate your work and efforts.

hmm, I detect one error if I'm not mistaken. As it was my very own recommendation I'm a little bit dissapointed Corrosion: Cold Winter Waiting didn't make it to the list. At least it should have gotten one voice, mine. Just Adventure gave it a raving review so I'm not completely alone.

Thanks flotsam and Chief! I'm printing this up to analyzed the results.

Thanks, flotsam and Chief! Interesting results as always.

Thanks Flotsam for all your work.

I did notice that you have listed Blackstone Chronicles twice in the first list. One with 6 votes and one with 4. Does that mean it has 10? Then in the second, alphabetical, list it has 5.

Thanks so much, flotsam and Chief, for all your hard work

Don't know how on earth you manage to squeeze it in !! [Certainly flotsam - with Isabelle so constantly in the background !! ]

Anyway, it's always really interesting to study the results

Thank you flotsam & Chief! It's great to see all the games I couldn't squeeze into my top 20 listed in the results anyway!

Apologies for the errors.
Its tricky counting as you go and then compiling a final numerical list. With all the cutting and pasting and moving things about, it hurts my (somewhat elderly) brain.
Plus I have to look twice to make sure people didn't really mean to vote for Isabelle
I will remedy the list asap.

ok tis done

Thank you flotsam and Chief!

No apologies necessary Flotsam. I can only imagine how tricky and time consuming trying to keep a list like this straight is. I don't think I could have the patience to do what you seem to do so well. It could be worse...like if all of the over 7800 registered members here at GameBoomers gave you their top twenty lists.

Thanks for taking the time to compile the List, Flotsam.

Yay! I made the list. Something else to cross off that other list. The bucket one.

flotsam,

I cannot believe how much work you put into this list every year. Thank you, so much! And thanks to you, too, Chief!



Gil.