In no particular order:

Broken Sword Circle of Blood
Darkfall
Zanzarah
Realmyst
Riven
Syberia
Syberia 2
The Messenger
Zork Nemesis
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Uru
Riddle of the Sphinx
Amerzone
The Black Mirror
11th Hour (loved that piano puzzle!)

thanks flotsam for doing this again!

In no particular order, here goes:
1. The Longest Journey
2. Discworld Noir
3. Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
4. Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive
5.Discworld 1
6.Sam and Max Hit the Road
7.Sanitarium
8.Grim Fandango
9.Gabriel Knight 2
10.Circle of Blood
11.Toonstruck
12.Black Dahlia
13.Simon the Sorcerer
14.Curse of Monkey Island
15 Black Mirror

Here they are in no particular order .

• Grim Fandango
• Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
• Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
• Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
• The Neverhood
• Conquests of the Longbow
• Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
• Lighthouse
• Under a Killing Moon
• Sanitarium
• The Dark Eye
• Sam n Max Hit the Road
• The Last Express
• Zork: Grand Inquisitor

(Edit-Had to include CCS over something else ).

I did read every reply, thinking a game I forgot might pop up,, but didn't happen. I choose my games by whether or not I want to replay them, and this year's list has only one change from last year.

Journeyman Project 3 - Legacy of Time
Zork Nemesis
Riven
Timelapse
Real Myst
Broken Sword I
Broken Sword II
Myst III: Exile
Sanitaium
Kyrandia 2-Hand of Fate
Amber Journeys Beyond
Shivers
Zork Grand Inquisitor
The Neverhood
Faust-7 Games of the Soul

In order:

Myst
Riven
Exile
Syberia
Syberia 2
Amerzone
Black mirror
Schizm 2
Dark fall
Rhem
Messenger
Atlantis 3
Omega stone
Longest journey
Mystery of the mummy

I figured I'd better get my list in before the next "pithy observation" comes out

No particular order other than the first 8 are 3rd person and the next 7 are 1st person:

The Longest Journey
Discworld Noir
Broken Sword 1
Broken Sword 2
Syberia
Under a Killing Moon
The Pandora Directive
The Black Mirror
Shivers i
Dark Fall
Riddle of the Sphinx
Timelapse
Amerzone
Mysterious Journey II
Myst III : Exile

Timelapse
Obsidian
Syberia
Lightbringer
Schizm
Secrets of the Luxor
Neverhood
Syberia 2
Reah
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Amerzone
Riven
Mysterious Journey 2
Darkfall
Uru

That's my list, not many changes.

Cheryl

Heres my 15

Black Dahlia
The Longest Journey
Black Mirror
Syberia
Syberia 2
Discworld Noir
Gabriel Knight 3
Broken Sword 1
Broken Sword 2
Shivers 1
Monkey Island 3
Dark Fall
Mysterious Journey 2
Beyond Atlantis
Lighthouse

Just a little change from my last list, I've definitely been working too much!

In alphabetical order (too hard to decide my favorites):

Amber
Beyond Atlantis
Blackstone Chronicles
Dark Fall
Faust
Gabriel Knight 2 - The Beast Within
Lighthouse
Morpheus
Myst
Myst 3 - Exile
Riddle of the Sphinx
Sanitarium
Shivers 1
Syberia 1
Zork Grand Inquisitor

Thanks flotsam

No particular order...

Gabriel Knight 2
Dsicworld
Longest Journey
RealMyst
Sanitarium
Faust
Syberia
Syberia 2
Nancy Drew Ghost Dogs
Atlantis 2
Curse of Monkey Island
Full Throttle
Neverhood
Black Mirror
DarkFall

OK, I'm Not going to change my mind again...

Hey Syd, I don't believe ya don't have The Scroll on your list. Thought it was one of your favorite all time games!!!!!! Sorry, couldn't resist, LOL).

Happy Gaming All,
Bill

Llewton, Just Don't mention the Scroll.. It is the most picky game ever Forever Worlds is going for the title though...

This is awful, I should never have waited so long, every time I read someone else's response, get a reminder and go and change my list again. So, here goes - my first time:

Riven
Syberia 1
Syberia 2
Dark Fall
Broken Sword 1
Broken Sword 3
Uru
Myst
The Longest Journey
Sanitarium
The Last Express
Black Mirror
MJ 2
The Final Cut
ND - Ghost Dogs

It is Bill, it is -

maybe we should have a top 10 worst games-- games you would only recommend to your worst enemy then the quivering can be at the head of that followed by the scroll which is a masterpiece compared to the quivering.

Its only early days but that doesn't stop me reaching conclusions.
One such is that the gaming universe is starting to take note. Consider Sanitarium. An old game, yet it already has more recommendations than last year. It might drop on and off peoples recommendations for all sorts of reasons, but it is reasonable to assume that it is less likely to be added to the list of a person who didn't recommend it last year and who had already played it, than it is to be on the list of someone who hadn't played it last year. Which means that persons who hadn't played it found out about it somehow. Lighthouse is the same. Dare we presume...??
What else? Top 3 remains pretty much the same, and no one will as yet admit that The Scroll is a favourite. Good to see Ceremony of Innocence getting a mention, and perhaps surprising that Rama hasn't yet been. 120 games have more than one recommendation, and the game with the most votes which I haven't played is Discworld Noir.

Sanitarium's popularity may have something to do with it being rereleased in the U.S. and Canada.

Picking 15 for "general audience" recommendation is a heck of a lot easier than picking my favorite 15. Trying to cut THAT list down is like ripping my heart out.

Myst
Exile
Riven
Obsidian
Zork the Grand Inquisitor
Gabriel Knight, Sins of the Father
Gabriel Knight, Blood ofthe Sacred
Tex Murphy Pandora Directive
Dark Fall
Syberia I
Timelapse
Riddle of the Sphinx
Shivers I
Grim Fandango
The Dig

Thanks once again, Flotsam!!

In no particular order:

Broken Sword 1
Broken Sword 2
Broken Sword 3
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Gabriel Knight 1
Gabriel Knight 2
Gabriel Knight 3
The Dig
Clue(do): Fatal Illusion
Titanic: Adventures out of Time

I don't think my list has changed since last year. Thanks Flotsam.

The Longest Journey
Day of the Tentacle
Myst/Real Myst
The Curse of Monkey Island
Rama
Timelapse
Riddle of Master Lu
Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Zork: Grand Inquisitor
Zork: Nemesis
Obsidian
Toonstruck
Grim Fandango

Here's my list:

The Longest Journey
Byzantine - The Betrayal
Physicus
Discworld Noir
Grim Fandango
Jack Orlando
The Last Express
Nightlong - Union City Conspiracy
Pilgrim
Salammbo
Zork - Grand Inquisitor
Post Mortem
Secret of Monkey Island
Broken Sword 1
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Good point Colpet - I didn't know that. That will teach me to conjecture .
And Rama got mentioned.
But I was right about Discworld Noir
2 weeks to go, and Kate motors on.

Don't you mean Kate Walks on.. and on... and on....

I liked Rama, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone unless I knew they were OK with math and converting to and from numbering systems other than base 10.

The Twisty List isn't just a list of which games are your favorites. It's a list of games you'd recommend for a newcomer to adventure games to try.

Oh, oh, oh, oh I see a few other people voted for Post Mortem!

I love Post Mortem (yes I do think it had some flaws) but it didn't make it to the top last year, and I don't think it will this year. At least there are more people than just me who like it!