Well since I've played a few new games since last year and now grouping a series isn't allowed my list is a little bit different than the last one.

I am surprised with all the new games I did play this last year that some of them didn't make it to my list, as they seemed to be faves of quite a few other boomers here.

Here goes:
Thief Gold
Black Dahlia
Myst Exile
Real Myst
Beyond Atlantis
Goblins 3(the third one)
Ripper
Obsidian
Ring
Shivers 2(the second one)
Drakan
Zork 1(the first one)
Zork TGI
Dracula the Ressurection
Blade Runner

Sassy

Here is my list

Timelapse
Myst
Myst Exile
Zork Nemesis
The Arrival
The Neverhood
Amerzone
The Ward
Gruntz
Drowned God (When I finish it)
The Feeble Files
Discworld 2
Little Big Adventure 2
The Quivering (Vermin just made me remember how much I enjoyed this game)

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I'm not as big a gamer as most people here. I have many unfinished games which I can't recommend, because I haven't finished, but I have a few that are favorites and some others I've enjoyed.

Myst/realMyst (definitely realMyst if your machine meets the specs)
Riven
Myst III: Exile

I also liked:
Journeyman 3: Legacy of Time
Riddle of the Sphinx
Aztec: The Sacred Amulet
Timelapse

Can't think of any more...

Mine are:
Beyond Time
Cassandra Galleries
Curse of Monkey Island
Dracula the Last Sanctuary
Myst
Myst III
Neverhood
Obsidian
Reah
Riddle of the Sphinx
Riven
Secrets of the Luxor
Timelapse
Xiama
Zork Grand Inquisitor

Cheryl



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Gabriel Knight 2, The Beast Within
Quest for Glory 4
Quest for Glory 2
Quest for Glory 1
King's Quest 8, Mask of Eternity
Alone in the Dark 1
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
King's Quest 5
Dracula 2
Dracula 1
The Messenger
Atlantis
Atlantis 2

almost last (and should probably be almost least):

Myst
Grim Fandango
Riven
Sanitarium
Morpheus
Amber
Neverhood

that is all.

I think I am the only person in the entire universe who liked THE QUIVERING enough to include it in their best of. What a shame.

verm

Hi there,
The final lists appear below. The linking one will come later.
There is a numerical list, and an alphabetical list. An asterix in the alphabetical list indicates it is available for Mac - thanks to MacDee for that info.
I tried to use complete names where I could, and have listed alternative titles where relevant. I took a few liberties with the names in the alphabetical list in order to get sequels and series together (eg Myst 2). In the numerical list however the games are as I understand their correct title to be.
I have listed every game recommended, although I suspect a few would not be classed as adventure. The only games I did not list were recommendations outside the rules.
All errors are my own, but are hopefully extremely minimal.
Nearly 100 members posted recommendations, and just over 170 games were recommended. The top game received 51 recommendations, which meant 1 in every 2 persons had it in their 15 recommended games.
The top game was a bit of a surprise. I knew it would do well, but I would not have picked it at the start as ending up on top.
Finally, as I said last year, every game here is one which at least one person thought was among the 15 they would recommend out of all the games they have played. Allowing for tastes, that means there are no duds, and it will be a long time before I run out of good games to play

flotsam

ps - apologies for the formatting. That too is my fault. I just couldn't master the UBB codes


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51 Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
48 Longest Journey, The
40 Myst/realMyst
40 Riven
32 Shivers
31 Timelapse
30 Broken Sword 1: Shadow of the Templars/Circle of Blood
29 The Curse of Monkey Island
29 Grim Fandango
29 Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive
29 Zork Nemesis
27 Black Dahlia
27 Myst 3: Exile
27 Sanitarium
25 Zork Grand Inquisitor
24 Faust: 7 Games of the Soul
24 Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers
22 Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
22 Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis
19 Tex Murphy: Overseer
19 Amber: Journeys Beyond
18 Riddle of the Sphinx
17 Discworld
16 Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
16 Lighthouse
15 Amerzone: The Explorers Legacy
15 Byzantine: The Betrayal
15 Day of the Tentacle
15 Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
15 Monkey Island 1: The Secret of Monkey Island
15 Morpheus
15 Obsidian
15 Simon the Sorcerer
14 Discworld 2: Missing, Presumed…!?
14 Dracula: The Last Sanctuary
14 The Neverhood
13 Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
13 Kings Quest 7: The Princeless Bride
12 Blackstone Chronicles
12 The Dig
12 Dracula Resurrection
12 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
11 Kings Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
10 Rama
9 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
8 Phantasmagoria 1: Prey its Only a Nightmare
8 Ring: The legend of the Niberlungen
8 Shivers 2: Harvester of Souls
8 Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
7 Cydonia/Lightbringer
7 Discworld Noir
6 7th Guest
6 Atlantis 1: The Lost Tales
6 Blade Runner
6 Callahans Crosstime Saloon
6 Feeble Files
6 Legend of Kyrandia Book 1: Fables and Fiends
6 Monkey Island 4: Escape from Monkey Island
6 Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
6 Ripper
6 Secrets of the Luxor
6 Titanic; Adventure out of Time
5 Dark Side of the Moon
5 Return to Zork
5 Traitors Gate
4 Cassandra Galleries
4 The Dark Eye
4 Last Express
4 Louvre: The Final Curse/The Messenger
4 Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
4 Reah
4 Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Rose Tattoo
3 The Arrival
3 Bad Mojo
3 Beyond Time
3 Egypt 2: The Heliopolis Prophecy
3 Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
3 Jewels of the Oracle
3 Kings Quest 2: Romancing the Throne
3 Legend of Kyrandia Book 2: The Hand of Fate
3 Pandora’s Box
3 Stupid Invaders
3 Xiama

2 Alone in the Dark 1, Ark of Time, Celtica, Drowned God: Conspiracy of Ages, The Forgotten: It Begins, Jewels of the Oracle 2, Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time, Karma: Curse of the 12 Caves, Nancy Drew 3: Message in a Haunted Mansion, Noctropolis, Outcast, Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness, Space Quest 3: The Pirates of Pestulon, Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation, The Quivering, Spycraft, Thief, Toonstruck, Torins Passage, Twinsen’s Odyssey, The Ward, Woodruffe and the Azimuth of Schnibble, Realms of the Haunting.

1 Alone in the dark 2, Armed and Delerious/Dementia, Azreal’s Tear, Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold/The Sacred Amulet, Beneath a Steel Sky, Blair Witch 2: Rustin Parr, Betrayal at Krondor, Blue Ice, Bureau 13, The Castle, Chaos, Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion, Comer, Countdown, Cracking the Conspiracy, Crusader: A Conspiracy in the Kingdom of Jerusalum, Dark Earth, Darkseed, Deathgate, Dracula Unleashed, Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, Eye of the Beholder 2, Entomorph: Plague of the Darfall, Fable, Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of a Monster, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist, Goblins 3, Gruntz, Heaven’s Dawn, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jack Orlando, Kings Quest 5: Absence Makes the Heart go Yonder!, Kings Quest 8: Mask of Eternity, Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra, Legend of Kyrandia Book 3: Malcolm’s Revenge, Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin, Les Manley 1: Search for the King, Maniac Mansion, Mission Critical, Necronomicon, Nocturne, Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses, Physicus, Pilgrim: Faith as a Weapon, Pirates!, Planescape Torment, Pompeii/Timescape, Prince of Persia, Prisoner of Ice, Quest for Glory 1: So You Want to be a Hero, Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire, Rent-a-Hero, Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender, Riddle of Master Liu, Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch, Silent Hill, Silver, Shannara, Space Quest 1: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter, Space Quest 2: Vohauls Revenge, Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers, Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier, SPQR: The Empires Darkest Hour, Star Trek: Elite Force, Star Trek: Final Unity, The Time Machine, UFOs, Versailles 1685, Voyeur, Ween: The Prophecy, Xanth, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, Zork 1, Zork Zero, Zork 2: Return to Zork

6 *7th Guest
2 *Alone in the Dark 1
1 *Alone in the Dark 2
19 *Amber: Journeys Beyond
15 Amerzone: The Explorers Legacy
2 Ark of Time
1 Armed and Delerious/Dementia
3 *Arrival, The
6 Atlantis 1: The Lost Tales
22 *Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis
1 *Azreal’s Tear
1 Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold/The Sacred Amulet
3 *Bad Mojo
1 *Beneath a Steel Sky
1 Betrayal at Krondor
3 Beyond Time
27 Black Dahlia
12 Blackstone Chronicles
6 Blade Runner
1 Blair Witch 2: Rustin Parr
1 *Blue Ice
30 *Broken Sword 1: Shadow of the Templars/Circle of Blood
13 *Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
1 Bureau 13
15 Byzantine: The Betrayal
6 Callahans Crosstime Saloon
4 *Cassandra Galleries
1 *Castle, The
2 Celtica
1 Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion
1 Countdown
1 Cracking the Conspiracy
1 Crusader: A Conspiracy in the Kingdom of Jerusalum
7 Cydonia/Lightbringer
4 *Dark Eye, The
1 Dark Earth
1 *Darkseed
5 Dark Side of the Moon
15 *Day of the Tentacle
1 Deathgate
12 *Dig, The
17 *Discworld
14 *Discworld 2: Missing, Presumed…!?
7 Discworld Noir
12 Dracula Resurrection
14 Dracula: The Last Sanctuary
1 *Dracula Unleashed
2 Drowned God: Conspiracy of Ages
1 *Dust: A Tale of the Wired West
1 Eye of the Beholder 2
1 Entomorph: Plague of the Darfall
3 Egypt 2: The Heliopolis Prophecy
1 Fable
1 Fallout 1
1 Fallout 2
24 Faust
6 Feeble Files
1 Flight of the Amazon Queen
1 *Frankenstein
1 Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
2 *Forgotten: It Begins
24 Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers
51 Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
16 Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
1 Goblins 3
29 Grim Fandango
1 Gruntz
1 Heaven’s Dawn
9 *Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
2 Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
1 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1 Jack Orlando
3 *Jewels of the Oracle
2 *Jewels of the Oracle 2
2 *Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
15 *Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
1 Karma: Curse of the 12 Caves
3 Kings Quest 2: Romancing the Throne
1 Kings Quest 5: Absence Makes the Heart go Yonder!
11 *Kings Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
13 *Kings Quest 7: The Princeless Bride
1 Kings Quest 8: Mask of Eternity
4 *Last Express, The
5 *Legend of Kyrandia Book 1: Fables and Fiends
3 *Legend of Kyrandia Book 2: The Hand of Fate
1 *Legend of Kyrandia Book 3: Malcolm’s Revenge
1 Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin
1 Les Manley 1: Search for the King
16 *Lighthouse
48 Longest Journey, The
4 Messenger, The/Louvre: The Final Curse
1 *Maniac Mansion
1 Mission Critical
15 Monkey Island 1: The Secret of Monkey Island
12 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
29 Monkey Island 3: The Curse of Monkey Island
6 Monkey Island 4: Escape from Monkey Island
16 *Morpheus
40 *Myst
40 *Myst 2: Riven
27 *Myst 3: Exile
1 Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion
1 Necronomicon
14 Neverhood
6 Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
1 Nocturne
15 *Obsidian
1 Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses
2 Outcast
3 Pandora’s Box
8 *Phantasmagoria 1: Prey its Only a Nightmare
4 *Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
1 Physicus
1 Pilgrim: Faith as a Weapon
1 Pirates!
1 Planescape Torment
1 Pompeii/Timescape
1 Prince of Persia
1 *Prisoner of Ice
1 Quest for Glory 1: So You Want to be a Hero
1 Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire
2 Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness
2 Quivering, The
10 *Rama
4 Reah
1 Rent-a-Hero
1 Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
1 Riddle of Master Liu
18 *Riddle of the Sphinx
8 Ring: The legend of the Niberlungen
1 Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch
6 *Ripper
27 Sanitarium
6 *Secrets of the Luxor
1 Shannara
4 Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Rose Tattoo
32 *Shivers
8 Shivers 2: Harvester of Souls
1 Silent Hill
1 *Silver
15 Simon the Sorcerer
8 Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
1 Space Quest 1: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter
1 Space Quest 2: Vohauls Revenge
2 Space Quest 3: The Pirates of Pestulon
1 *Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
2 Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation
1 *Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier
1 SPQR: The Empires Darkest Hour
2 *Spycraft
3 Stupid Invaders
22 Tex Murphy 3: Under a Killing Moon
29 Tex Murphy 4: Pandora Directive
19 Tex Murphy 5: Overseer
1 The Time Machine
2 Thief
31 *Timelapse
6 *Titanic; Adventure out of Time
2 Toonstruck
1 *Torins Passage
2 Twinsen’s Odyssey
5 *Traitors Gate
1 UFOs
1 *Versailles 1685
1 Voyeur
2 Ward, The
1 Ween; The Prophecy
3 Xiama
1 Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
1 *Zork 1
1 *Zork Zero
5 *Zork 2: Return to Zork
25 Zork Grand Inquisitor
29 *Zork Nemesis

Fantastic, wonderful job, Flotsam. I can hardle wait for NEXT year.
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granny goodwitch ( I'll have that Double BAAGed, please )

A woman NEVER shot a man while he was doing dishes!

Well done!!
Thank you so much Flotsam! It must have taken a long time to to make this very good compilation.
As I have high opinion of my fellow-gamers' taste (at least in adventure games) I will consult this very often, before I buy or play a game.
Love, Christina