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Any good IF/CYOAs recommendations?

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Any good IF/CYOAs recommendations?
So far my favourites are the Sorcery series and Infinity series.
I've tried Fallen Hero (it's tumblr dogshit), and I, The Forgotten One and it was pretty mediocre and was more of a novel than an interactive text-based game.
I might try Zombie Exodus, Samurai of Hyuga, Tin Star, and Choice of Robots next, as these are the most commonly recommended, but I was wondering if the codex has any recommendations of their own?
 

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The Impossible Bottle is the only freeware text-only IF game that's made a genuinely positive impression. Very inventive main gimmick, charming story, and a good hint system.

Inkle's 80 Days is also very good. Well worth its reputation.
 

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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is probably one of the best CYOAs, has a good ratio of player input to text dumping. It has considerably different outcomes and the routes through the game are divergent enough to make you want to replay the game.


As far as IF, I would ask if you plumbed the depths of 1970-1990 IF and graphical IFs like the stuff from Legend Entertainment because modern IF is mostly relegated to Choice of Games and Hosted games stuff which is 98% written for they/them lgtbq oriented types and the occasional VTM/Werewolf game.
 

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