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New here? Or a regular poster here who is searching for forum games that are actually good? Perhaps looking for new ones that show some promise but can't find any? Then this is the place to be.

The purpose of this thread is for troper forum gamers to recommend forum games to other posters that ask (like a sub-forum library of some sort), or to recommend your latest created forum game.

When posting recommendations, it is preferable that you link the name of the forum game to its thread, along with a description of what the forum game is about.

Forum game rules still apply here.


FORUM GAME RECS

Our Avatars Are Posting In A Forum Thread: What if your avatar was part of a forum thread? This is the result.

Our avatars have been genderflipped: Same as above, but applied to your avatars.

Corrupt-A-Wish: One person makes a wish, the other grants and corrupts it, then makes a wish etc.

1000 bad reasons to declare war: Self-explanatory.

Bad ideas for forum games v2: Thread topic ideas that are likely to get you banned or shunned.

1000 things we've learned from video games: Just started by me, a humorous look at things video games teach us.


Happy recommending and happy forum gaming!

Regards,
Motor-Runner

Edited by SeptimusHeap on Oct 31st 2022 at 11:16:52 AM

starmate3 Come to the place where party is king! from Piñata Island Since: Jun, 2024 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Mattman_the_Storyteller Since: Aug, 2018
#677: Feb 19th 2025 at 11:19:15 AM

I've made a Save the villain thread game after seeing the Massacre and Rehabilitation threads. This one involves finding the means to save tragic villains just like how Peter would save the villains in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

LucasdaKool Cellbit, a Notpron lover from the world of Puzzle Game Since: Sep, 2022
Cellbit, a Notpron lover
#678: Feb 19th 2025 at 6:00:00 PM

Should we (or did we already have) have somethings like "What is the above poster/avatar most likely to be asked about in "Ask the above poster/avatar a question", inspire by the lastest posts in this thread?

https://enigmatics.org/puzzles/
starmate3 Come to the place where party is king! from Piñata Island Since: Jun, 2024 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Come to the place where party is king!
#679: Feb 20th 2025 at 4:14:50 AM

Hmm, has anyone done a bowling forum game?

So grab a stick and take a swing! Do the Piñata thing!
Dictionaryman616 Since: Mar, 2020 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#680: Feb 20th 2025 at 5:21:06 AM

That can work. Avatars taking turns in a bowling alley competition to gain the most Strikes or points.

LucasdaKool Cellbit, a Notpron lover from the world of Puzzle Game Since: Sep, 2022
KingLegendtheStudTroper I am awesome, everything is interesting from Somewhere in the universe. Dunno quite where Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: Every rose has its thorn
I am awesome, everything is interesting
#682: Feb 27th 2025 at 10:21:56 PM

I think a good forum game would be TIFU from the perspective of fictional characters. For those who may not be aware, TIFU is a subreddit where people share stories of a big/embarrassing mistake that they made, I think it might be fun to do that but from the perspective of fictional characters similar to the AITA in the style of fictional characters. Basically it would go like TIFU by (explain situation) with the work being described potholed. Then the next person can either comment on the situation described and/or provide their own TIFU story. I went ahead and created it

Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Feb 27th 2025 at 12:03:14 PM

starmate3 Come to the place where party is king! from Piñata Island Since: Jun, 2024 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Come to the place where party is king!
#683: Mar 2nd 2025 at 6:53:48 PM

Do we have a Forum game where we give suggestions for which avatar the above troper uses next?

So grab a stick and take a swing! Do the Piñata thing!
Heehee47 Princess of Moonbrooke from The guy standing right in front of you. Since: Mar, 2022 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Princess of Moonbrooke
#684: Mar 2nd 2025 at 6:57:43 PM

I think there's "which of the above poster's avatars should they switch to?"

Wherefore comest thou here?
Bluethorn They're back! from Partash Since: Jan, 2018 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
They're back!
#685: Mar 4th 2025 at 7:45:18 AM

We have "Make the above work title verbose". What about the opposite: you post a work title in verbose form and the next poster has to guess what work it is? Does that sound like an interesting idea?

Currently playing Yooka-Replaylee
starmate3 Come to the place where party is king! from Piñata Island Since: Jun, 2024 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Come to the place where party is king!
#686: Mar 4th 2025 at 8:25:29 AM

Would this work? A forum game based on the Uncanny Mr. Incredible meme, where we start with seemingly innocent situations and then get steadily worse, or the opposite where things get steadily better, but with our avatars.

So grab a stick and take a swing! Do the Piñata thing!
Dictionaryman616 Since: Mar, 2020 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#687: Mar 4th 2025 at 2:10:29 PM

[up]What if it's like Murder, Arson, and Jaywalking but with our Avatars. I think that makes more sense.

ginsengaddict Lt (jg) T'lyn (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Lt (jg) T'lyn
#688: Mar 6th 2025 at 6:18:50 PM

How would a "Tropefy This Media - List 10" game go?

For example:


Troper 1:

1. Killed Mid-Sentence

Troper 2:

1. Killed Mid-Sentence

2. Ludicrous Gibs

Troper 3:

1. Killed Mid-Sentence

2. Ludicrous Gibs

3. Sudden Soundtrack Stop

Troper 4:

1. Killed Mid-Sentence

2. Ludicrous Gibs

3. Sudden Soundtrack Stop

4. Negative Space Wedgie

...and so on?

List length negotiable; 5 is probably enough.

Edited by ginsengaddict on Mar 7th 2025 at 1:19:08 AM

I suppose, by the transitive property, I too must be "Vulcan as a Motherfucker."[1]
LucasdaKool Cellbit, a Notpron lover from the world of Puzzle Game Since: Sep, 2022
Cellbit, a Notpron lover
#689: Mar 6th 2025 at 6:39:26 PM

[up]So what can you post? A short video, a text, or a whole book or films (which have lots of tropes)?

https://enigmatics.org/puzzles/
Heehee47 Princess of Moonbrooke from The guy standing right in front of you. Since: Mar, 2022 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Princess of Moonbrooke
#690: Mar 6th 2025 at 6:40:14 PM

How about a FNAF forum game. Inspired by one such game I saw a few years back

Wherefore comest thou here?
ginsengaddict Lt (jg) T'lyn (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Lt (jg) T'lyn
#691: Mar 6th 2025 at 6:54:31 PM

[up][up]I think either a short video (5 min at most, preferably 1-3), an artwork, a comic strip or a page from a book. Anything else is too wide of scope.

I suppose, by the transitive property, I too must be "Vulcan as a Motherfucker."[1]
azerty04 Walking and talking library from a wide bookshelf, France. (Troper in training) Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Walking and talking library
#692: Mar 7th 2025 at 9:16:54 AM

[up][up][up][up][tup]

What about a Forum game where the challenge is to crate a subpage of a page?

Exeample:

Troper 1:

Let's start this game. Create a Self-Demonstrating Article page for Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe!

Troper 2:

Done (fictionally). The next one have to create a Laconic page for Shangri-La Frontier!

And so on.

Edited by azerty04 on Mar 7th 2025 at 6:17:38 PM

Give me books! Give me ALL YOUR BOOKS!!!!!
TheScratcher7 it's normal :/ from my personal limbo (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: Serial head-patter
it's normal :/
#693: Mar 7th 2025 at 10:38:05 PM

[up] But what if the prompt has an actual page, like this one?

Ok im back ... | Check my strawpage :3
azerty04 Walking and talking library from a wide bookshelf, France. (Troper in training) Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Walking and talking library
#694: Mar 8th 2025 at 3:06:53 AM

facepalm

Well... Ok, I'd better add a rule stating that you must check if it already exists or not.

Give me books! Give me ALL YOUR BOOKS!!!!!
ginsengaddict Lt (jg) T'lyn (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Lt (jg) T'lyn
#695: Mar 8th 2025 at 4:15:42 AM

[up]It would be immediately obvious if a page does or doesn't have a sub-page by the blue or red link.

For example:

I suppose, by the transitive property, I too must be "Vulcan as a Motherfucker."[1]
azerty04 Walking and talking library from a wide bookshelf, France. (Troper in training) Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Walking and talking library
#696: Mar 9th 2025 at 10:17:16 AM

Okay, I'll state so you must directly give the red link where the subpage must be made.

Give me books! Give me ALL YOUR BOOKS!!!!!
starmate3 Come to the place where party is king! from Piñata Island Since: Jun, 2024 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Come to the place where party is king!
#697: Mar 9th 2025 at 2:47:17 PM

Has anyone ever made a forum game where you rate the above tropers gallery out of 10?

So grab a stick and take a swing! Do the Piñata thing!
TheScratcher7 it's normal :/ from my personal limbo (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: Serial head-patter
it's normal :/
#698: Mar 10th 2025 at 12:18:17 AM

[up] I'm pretty sure you've made a Top 10 avatars from the above gallery before but not that. I looked up but no results came up so you can create one

Ok im back ... | Check my strawpage :3
azerty04 Walking and talking library from a wide bookshelf, France. (Troper in training) Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Walking and talking library
#699: Mar 11th 2025 at 11:05:05 AM

Can my game be launched ?

And btw, what happened to the "Enter The Area As Your Avatar" threads? Are they dead or are more recent ones availables?

Give me books! Give me ALL YOUR BOOKS!!!!!
Dictionaryman616 Since: Mar, 2020 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]

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