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Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood is short but does this excellently. Instead of dead-ending you, failure usually only makes the ending worse.

• YU-NO (has some lapses in taste, but is overall truly epic and impressive, and still way better written than most other VNs/VN-style games)
• Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood (among the best implementations of story branching and multiple solutions)
• Death Gate (strong in all areas, the 2D artwork in particular is amazing)
• Frederik Pohl’s Gateway (perhaps the best parser-driven game I’ve played)

• Stuff composed by Ryu Umemoto (YU-NO, Desire)
• Stuff composed by Nobuo Uematsu (Alpha, Will: The Death Trap II)
• Elegy from Nocturnal Illusion
• KQ1 remake
• Death Gate
• Dune