Vertical Games - an IFDB Poll
by Anya Johanna DeNiro
RSS FeedLooking for games that really explore verticality, which go up (way up) in their setting. Human-made structures in particular: towers, skyscrapers, radio antennae. Games that figuratively can make you feel dizzy, particularly after a long climb to the top. Bonus points for Bad Things Happening to You if you happen to fall...
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| climbing 208 feet up the ruin wall, by Porpentine 6 votes "You do climb in this game" [+]"You do climb in this game" --Cerfeuil... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Anya Johanna DeNiro... "A vertical..." [+]"A vertical adventrue in Twine." --Christina Nordlander... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --CMG... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --itsdnoftheworld...  Vote for this game | |
| To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest 5 votes "You're in a..." [+]"You're in a balloon, and your altitude is critically important (and constantly displayed in the status line)." ( - Full review) --Emily Short... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --E.K.... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Hanon Ondricek... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Vulturous... Vote for this game | |
| Roofed, by Jim Munroe 3 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) --Anya Johanna DeNiro... "Set on a rooftop,..." [+]"Set on a rooftop, involves climbing and various levels of precariousness. Also a very good soft sci-fi story puzzler." ( ) --E.K.... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Ryan Veeder... Vote for this game | |
| The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder 3 votes "Moody game about climbing a tower" [+]"Moody game about climbing a tower" ( ) --Cerfeuil... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Anya Johanna DeNiro... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Denk... Vote for this game | |
| The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith 2 votes "You don't..." [+]"You don't actually spend a lot of time in the titular edifice, but ascending it is the central theme of the game." --Christina Nordlander... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Kinetic Mouse Car... Vote for this game | |
| Tangaroa Deep, by Astrid Dalmady 2 votes "Vertical oceanic navigation, great atmosphere" [+]"Vertical oceanic navigation, great atmosphere" ( ) --Cerfeuil... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Down, the Serpent and the Sun, by Chandler Groover 2 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Sobol... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Doug Orleans... Vote for this game | |
| Worldsmith, by Ade McT 2 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Sobol... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Denk... Vote for this game | |
| Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian 2 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Anya Johanna DeNiro... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Excelsior, by Arthur DiBianca 2 votes "The room turning..." [+]"The room turning puzzle is the best part, where you operate something from above." --Andrew Schultz... "The tower..." [+]"The tower operates on multiple levels, which you sometimes have to cross to solve puzzles." ( - Full review) --prevtenet... Vote for this game | |
| Flight of the Hummingbird, by Michael Martin 2 votes "You can fly, but..." [+]"You can fly, but you suck at it. All the puzzles are about getting from A to B." ( - Full review) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Andrew Schultz... Vote for this game | |
| Zymurgy, by Roger Carbol 1 vote "UP and DOWN are..." [+]"UP and DOWN are the only directions in this game." ( - Full review) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Catapole, by Adrien Saurat 1 vote "Underground..." [+]"Underground setting, with lifts and huge chimneys. Very bad things happening to you if you fall!" ( ) --Eriorg... Vote for this game | |
| Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz 1 vote "A multi-level..." [+]"A multi-level futuristic city. Nothing much in the way of "feeling dizzy", though - the setting is comfortable and amusing." ( ) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Pogoman GO!, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman 1 vote "the Nyantech building" [+]"the Nyantech building" ( ) --Denk... Vote for this game | |
| Trinity, by Brian Moriarty 1 vote "The Klein Bottle..." [+]"The Klein Bottle and the origami bird (with or without using the gnomon) provided different types of scary mindbending up-ness." ( ) --Andrew Schultz... Vote for this game | |
| San Francisco, 2118, by Leah Case 1 vote "I am going to be..." [+]"I am going to be honest. I have played this game and still do not fully grasp what it is about. But it does have a theme of traveling to different levels of a skyscraper. It is a Twine game and uses the coolest effect: Skyscraper imagery on the right side of the screen that moves up and down as if you were scaling it." --Kinetic Mouse Car... Vote for this game | |
| Tower, by Simon Deimel 1 vote "Well, this was a decent IF 2014 Comp game!" [+]"Well, this was a decent IF 2014 Comp game!" ( ) --BlitzWithGuns... Vote for this game | |
| Sunset Over Savannah, by Ivan Cockrum 1 vote "The game world is..." [+]"The game world is rather small in all dimensions, but climbing all the way up and diving all the way down are two of the most memorable experiences there." ( ) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Star City, by Mark Sachs 1 vote "Aside from the..." [+]"Aside from the geography of the space station, the final sequence is a text-based flight simulation(!) of a harrowing descent to Earth after ejecting from the satellite." ( ) --Joshua Houk... Vote for this game | |
| Ferret, by FerretAuthors@jugglingsoot.com 1 vote "A sharp toothed game to be thrust up your trouser leg " [+]"A sharp toothed game to be thrust up your trouser leg : One phase of this enormous game features a window cleaner's cradle. The problem revolves around different weights taking you to different floors outside a vertiginous building." ( - Full review) --Canalboy... Vote for this game | |
| Lucid, by Caliban's Revenge 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --OverThinking... Vote for this game | |