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There’s tons of great adventures I’ve not yet played, and felt like they’d easily replace anything I’d place on spots 80-100, .......
There’s quite a few games I have played that could easily replace some of those in my list, never mind the ones I haven’t played - I could easily have presented a list of 150 games! 
I need an opinion here. One of the games I wanted to include is Daemonica but I left it out because it’s described here as Hybrid - Action. The top-down view gives the impression of an RPG but apart from a few sword fights (no more than the shootouts in Gemini Rue & easier!) it’s essentially an adventure game. Can I replace another game with it?
I haven’t played it, Chrissie, but I don’t see why not.
PLEASE NOTE:
If you are making changes in a new post, just list the changes i.e. I’m replacing Game X with ___________ or I’m adding Game Y to my previous list. I don’t want to go back through your entire list just to find the differences.
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
2064: Read Only Memories
999
Anna’s Quest
Black Dahlia
Beneath a steel sky
Beyond a steel sky
Blackwell epiphany
Book of unwritten tales
Broken Sword 1
Broken Sword 2
Broken Sword 3
Broken Sword 5
Call of Cthulu: Prisoner of Ice
Chronicle of innsmouth
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
Day of the Tentacle
Dead Synchronicity
Detective Di: The silk rose murders
Discworld Noir
The Dig
Emerald City Confidential
Full Throttle
Grim Fandango
Gabriel Knight 1
Gabriel Knight 3
Hand of Glory
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Kathy Rain
Kings Quest 6
Leisure Suit Larry 2
Leisure Suit Larry 6
Leisure Suit Larry 7
Leisure Suit Larry Wet Dreams Don’t Dry
The Longest Journey
Metal Dead
Monkey Island 1: The Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
Monkey Island 3: The Curse of Monkey Island
Not Another Weekend
Quest for Glory 4
Quest for Glory 5
Shardlight
The Silent Age
Simon the Sorcerer
Sumatra Fate of Yandi
Technobabylon
Thimbleweek Park
Unavowed
Unforeseen incidents
Whispers of a Machine
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
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Some favorites that came first to mind. I could think plenty more but I’m not sure if they deserve the vote compared to these. Might still add more as I remember them.
Blade Runner
Broken Sword Shadow of The Templars
Day of the Tentacle
Detroit: Become Human
Full Throttle
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Grim Fandango
Heavy Rain
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Life is Strange
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
Sam & Max: Hit The Road
The Curse of Monkey Island
The Dig
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel
The Secret of Monkey Island
The Walking Dead: Season 01
The Wolf Among Us
Might it be worth consideration to be able to choose one or two games we could give two votes instead of one, so the personal favorites would stand out more. I feel like voting this way without ranking them will end up plenty of ties and not many games will stand out. Not that I’m complaining, just happy and grateful to have any list
I’m definitely going to add more games, as I want to try a couple of classics and newer games to see if I should put them on the list. This is just from off the top of my head. Or from the bottom of my heart? Whatever the case, I’m shooting from the hip.
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
Beneath a Steel Sky
Blackwell Unbound
The Blackwell Deception
Bureaucracy!
The Cube Escape series (should I list them individually?)
Day of the Tentacle
Deep Sleep
Deeper Sleep
The Deepest Sleep
The Dig
Don’t Escape 1
Don’t Escape 2
Don’t Escape 3
Don’t Escape: 4 Days to Survive
Full Throttle
Keepsake
King’s Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
Lumino City
Maniac Mansion
Milo and the Magpies
Riven
Rusty Lake Hotel
Rusty Lake: Paradise
Rusty Lake: Roots
The Painscreek Killings
The Past Within
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Shadowgate 64: Trials of the Four Towers
SPECTACLE
Spider & Web
When the Past Was Around
Whispers of a Machine
Samsara Room
Tangle Tower
The White Door
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Zork Grand Inquisitor
I will definitely be adding more games to my list as well. Mostly because, after reading other people’s lists I say “Why did I not remember that game?”
But, before doing that, I think I will wait for Lady K’s first draft.
For whom the games toll,
they toll for thee.
Seeing discussion above about whether or not non-forumites should be included. I visit this website all the time (and am a Patreon backer) but don’t use the forum because I’m not a forum person. Heard about this thread through the Adventure Games Podcast discord, and had a fun time coming up with my personal 100 adventure games list Feel free to use me as a test case and dismiss these results if you’d like!
7th Guest
80 Days
Beneath a Steel Sky
The Blackwell Deception
The Blackwell Epiphany
Botanicula
Broken Age
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon
Chuchel
Contradiction
Creaks
The Curse of Monkey Island
The Dagger of Amon Ra
The Darkside Detective
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Day of the Tentacle
Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
Disco Elysium
Discworld Noir
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
FAR: Changing Tides
Feria d’Arles
Firewatch
Four Last Things
Fran Bow
Full Throttle
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
The Gardens Between
Gemini Rue
Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure
Gone Home
Gorogoa
Grim Fandango
Heaven’s Vault
Her Story
Hypnospace Outlaw
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
The Journey Down
Kathy Rain
King’s Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
Lair of the Clockwork God
Lamplight City
The Last Door: Season 2
The Last Express
Late Shift
Later Alligator
The Longest Journey
The Longing
Lumino City
Machinarium
Milkmaid of the Milky Way
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
Mutropolis
Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
The Neverhood
Night in the Woods
Not Another Weekend
Overboard
Oxenfree
Papers, Please
Paradigm
Perfect Tides
The Procession to Calvary
The Red Strings Club
Return of the Obra Dinn
Richard & Alice
The Room
Sam and Max: Beyond Time and Space
Sam and Max: Hit the Road
Sam and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse
Samorost 2
Samorost 3
Sanitarium
The Secret of Monkey Island
The Sexy Brutale
Shardlight
The Shivah
A Short Hike
Smile for Me
Stories Untold
Sumatra: Fate of Yandi
Syberia
Tacoma
Tangle Tower
Technobabylon
There is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Thimbleweed Park
To the Moon
Toonstruck
Unavowed
Unforeseen Incidents
The Walking Dead
Welcome to Elk
What Remains of Edith Finch
Whispers of a Machine
The Witness
Yesterday
Yuppie Psycho
Something which might help folk. To make this list and sort it as needed, I added everything one at a time, completely out of order, to a spreadsheet in the third column. Then I put the following expression in the second column:
=IF(LEFT(C1,4)=“The “,RIGHT(C1,LEN(C1)-4),C1)
and then put the following expression in the first column:
=IF(LEFT(B1,2)=“A “,RIGHT(B1,LEN(B1)-2),B1)
Drag these expressions down to row 100 and sort by the first column, and the third column is the list to post.
Seeing discussion above about whether or not non-forumites should be included. I visit this website all the time (and am a Patreon backer) but don’t use the forum because I’m not a forum person. Heard about this thread through the Adventure Games Podcast discord, and had a fun time coming up with my personal 100 adventure games list
Of course your list won’t be dismissed! And as far as I am concerned it’s an interesting one which has a much more modern feel to it than most lists.
Sometimes, when I clean the rooms, I get a little curious and… erm… you know… snoop through our guests’s stuff. - This Bed We Made
Change to my list:
Replacing Detective Grimoire with The Walking Dead.
I edited my list, but it was like few minutes after I originally sent it. Removed the duplicate and added Tormentum. It was probably not logged during those few mins - hopefully.
Currently Playing: Dragon Age Origins: Awakening
Recently Played: Red Embrace: Hollywood, Dorfromantik, Heirs & Graces, AI: The Somnium Files, PRICE, Frostpunk, The Shapeshifting Detective (CPT), Disco Elysium, Dream Daddy, Four Last Things, Jenny LeClue - Detectivu, The Signifier
So far 16 people submitted their list. What stands out for me is that the diversity in games is enormous and that some of the old classics score highest. I did a very quick count of a few games:
Blade Runner - MI3: 11
GK1 - Grim F - TLJ: 10
MI1 - MI2 - Fate of A: 9
Sometimes, when I clean the rooms, I get a little curious and… erm… you know… snoop through our guests’s stuff. - This Bed We Made
Gabriel Knight 1
Gabriel Knight 3
Hand of Glory
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Wow! Thanks for putting The Hand of Glory into your list! And in good company too! 
The Hand of Glory is out!
Currently developing Roots in the Sky - The Hand of Glory 2!
Here’s my list. Glad we’re doing. Thanks, Lady K!
Few notes:
1. I included Hector: Badge of Carnage series of 3 episodes as one. Technically, they might be considered as separate games, so if I need to - I can put all 3 episodes separately, as they will all take place on my list.
2. I included Psychonauts simply because this game is in AG database, so, I suppose, it’s considered “adventure enough” by this site. If it doesn’t fit the criteria of this particular list - please, feel free to remove it. For the record, while it is definitely platform-heavy game, I consider its story/exploration/dialogues part to justify it as adventure as well, so I see this game as having both tags “adventure” and “platformer” simultaneoulsy, but I’ll go along with whatever rules we have.
Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity
Black Mirror, The
Black Mirror II
Black Mirror III
Blade Runner
Buddy Simulator 1984
Broken Sword, the Shadow of the Templars
Broken Sword, the Smoking Mirror
Broken Sword, the Sleeping Dragon
Bucket Detective
Culpa Innata
Curse of Monkey Island
Cat Lady
Danganronpa Trigger Happy Havoc
Day of the Tentacle
Dig, The
Disco Elysium
Discworld
Discworld II
Discworld Noir
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Dr. Laneskov, the Tiger, and the Terribly Cursed Emerald, the Whirlwind Heist
Downfall
Edna and Harvey: The Breakout
Edna and Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes
Emerald City Confidential
Escape from Monkey Island
Full Pipe
Full Throttle
Fran Bow
Forever Space
Grim Fandango
Gobliiins
Gobliins 2 – The Prince Baffoon
Goblin’s Quest 3
Hypnospace Outlaw
Hector Badge of Carnage ( all 3 episodes)
Heroine’s Quest
HitchHiker
Indigo Prophecy
INSIDE
Keepsake
Longest Journey, The
Last Express, The
LIMBO
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
Moment of Silence, The
Next BIG Thing, The
Nine Witches: Family Disruption
Norwood Suite
Not Another Weekend
Paradise Killer
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Pilot Brothers
Psychonauts
Puzzle Agent
Puzzle Agent 2
Return of the Obra Dinn
Runaway: A Road Adventure
Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle
Runaway: A Twist of Fate
Rusty Lake Hotel
Rusty Lake Paradise
Rusty Lake: Roots
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
Sam & Max Save the World
Sam & Max: the Devi’s Playhouse
Secret of Monkey Island, The
Simon the Sorcerer
Sinking Island
Stanley Parable, The
STASIS
Still Life
Syberia
Syberia II
Technobabylon
There is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Time Loader
Tony Tough and the Night of the Roasted Moths
Toonstruck
U.F.O.s
Wolf Among Us, The
Please note:
If you have Black Mirror on your list, let me know if you mean the original (The Black Mirror) or the 2017 reboot (Black Mirror).
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
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