Anchorhead will always rank very high for me. I played through the Z-machine version, and while I’ve purchased the Glulx version, I haven’t played through it yet. I hope to soon, though. The game has great atmosphere.
On a somewhat related note, I’ve found that Paul O’Brian’s reviews of IF Comp games over the years are uniformly excellent, and may help find some new favorites. He tailed off from reviews a while back, but now has a new site called Inventory which is dedicated to IF as well, and worth taking a look at. He’s copying over his older comp reviews as well as collecting various others he’s done.
Anchorhead will always rank very high for me. I played through the Z-machine version, and while I’ve purchased the Glulx version, I haven’t played through it yet. I hope to soon, though. The game has great atmosphere.
I’ve always quite enjoyed Shade as well.
On a somewhat related note, I’ve found that Paul O’Brian’s reviews of IF Comp games over the years are uniformly excellent, and may help find some new favorites. He tailed off from reviews a while back, but now has a new site called Inventory which is dedicated to IF as well, and worth taking a look at. He’s copying over his older comp reviews as well as collecting various others he’s done.
Wow. I’ll definitely be checking out Inventory and his comp reviews. It sounds interesting.