COINT + PLICK 2021-2024 - Voting thread, deadline 2026-03-31

Instructions:

- Make a copy of the ballot here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EwzSZHw8abtCsIpWOxll_wi8e9aB00jypg4M-OrJBXw/edit?usp=drive_link
- You have up to 200 points to allocate for up to 30 games.
- The max point total for a single game is 30 points.
- When you're done with the ballot, copy your entries from the "Copy/Paste" column and email them to lee[dot]free[dot]account[at]proton[dot]me, with the subject line ILG Coint + Plick 2021-2024
- Deadline for ballots: 2026-03-31 (to give us all some time to check out another game or two)

Hopefully that's everything you need to know, LMK if I left anything out!

Any suggestions for short games to try out before voting?

Venba is a narrative game that takes < 2 hours.

Any suggestions for short games to try out before voting?

― adam t (dat)

How short, and do you have money constraints?

Repeat the Ending and Of Our Shadows Deep are both free-to-play text adventures, neither too long imo. If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a free/pay what you like point-and-click, it's very bite-sized but a nice little game.

Slay the Princess isn't necessarily short as you can replay it with vastly different results a bunch of times (and you should do so), but you can definitely do a couple of run-throughs and get a feel for it very quickly. It's a narrative fantasy-horror game with incredible art, that is almost certainly tagged "story rich"/"choices matter" on Steam.

I'm going to use this thread to lobby for Thank Goodness You're Here, which is just... wild. I went in expecting surrealist British humour, and that's all over it, but it's significantly more mad than I was anticipating. AND my lovely local pub landlord does voice acting on it, which only bloody went and got him a Bafta nomination.

awesome. i have to admit i bailed on TGYH after a couple of hours because it felt too linear/too unchallenging and it didn't charm me or make me laugh enough. but it's definitely worth checking out and my ever-waning attention span shouldn't be the metric here

i think A Space for the Unbound is relatively short - i probably finished it in under a week - but i'm really just looking for any excuse to recommend it because it's a beautiful game that i'm gonna throw an unseemly amount of points at probably

xp

Yes! Spoilers, but it's definitely going to be number one on my ballot.
Thank Goodness You’re Here!

I also didn't jibe with TGYH -- I think you need to appreciate humour, and not just humor (i.e. a very specific, very British style).

Oh yeah, I think you'll either find it incredibly funny or not funny at all. I wouldn't put it down solely to British vs not-British humour, even though a fair amount of the comedy is region-specific: it's wild, wacky, absurdist and crude, and that's not for everybody at all.

Oh and I guess I'm still accepting additional noms, if you've already voted but want to amend, you can re-copy the ballot to get the updated nom list.

To anyone trying to access the sheet but aren't allowed to, try this link instead:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EwzSZHw8abtCsIpWOxll_wi8e9aB00jypg4M-OrJBXw/edit?usp=drivesdk

leee did you get my email? i included my ballot but also a helpful compiler sheet thing (if you hadn'ty already built one)

i ask because i 100% got your email wrong the first time lol so i am paranoid i got it wrong the second time

I did get your email with the compiler sheet, and replied to it earlier this morning! I didn't see your ballot, however.

Just bumping this because I almost forgot that the deadline is coming up, and maybe other people need a reminder too. Will try to make a list as soon as I can.

i keep remembering and forgetting, gonna try to get this done this week

I kinda forgot too! Thanks for the reminder, emil.y!

i (hopefully) voted!

After 30 minutes of Strange Horticulture, it's already scratching songs of the same itches that Roottrees does. I also think I heard the game being described as cozy, and maybe that's the case of you squint, but the music has been foreboding in a tasty way that I'm digging a lot.

are write ins allowed? I completely missed the nominations thread and would like to honor the approximately 10 trillion hours I have put into Caves of Qud (2024)

xp Strange Horticulture is creepy-cozy. it does both!

Write ins are fine! But of course that means the people who already voted probably won't have them on their ballots, of course.

ty!

Of course!

Voted! I think. Hopefully I c&p'd everything correctly, including your email address.

i have a list of stuff but i need to figure out point values and i really left this too late

I spent ages working out point values before entering my ballot into the spreadsheet and realising that Leee had very handily put a macro in that tells you how many points you have left. Which wouldn't have entirely solved my issue of how best to spread them but would've saved me doing a bunch of mental arithmetic.

Credit goes to Will for setting up the spreadsheet!

I owe a bunch of people replies to confirm receipt, I will try to get them done this week. If you're worried about missing the deadline because of sending to the wrong email, don't worry, I'll accept late entries.

i scattergunned the heck out of my points ratings in about 10 minutes, i regret nothing

i will invent justifications after the fact

That's the spirit!

I sent mine but it might get trapped in a junk folder bc it's from the spammy looking hotmail address I use for ILX purposes

It landed in my main inbox, Salsa!

BTW I just noticed that the Google Sheet ballot has a little bit of a formatting error, TLDR is that if you know you voted for more than 20 titles, the formatting didn't copy correctly. I'll reach out to folks to whom I suspect this has happened but if you know for sure (or even if you don't but want to re-cast your ballot), I've fixed the template (though you'll have to copy/paste your ballot into the new copy).

Voted! Not a whole lot of ordering/hierarchy in my ballot; wasn't the longest list

https://i.ibb.co/spMDCx5d/Screenshot-2026-03-30-at-5-27-54-PM.png

voted for basic and obvious games!

That's the spirit

ballot submitted

Everyone who's sent in a ballot should hopefully have received a reply email from me confirming receipt -- if not, pipe up and we'll try to figure things out!

Last call for any stragglers!

Plan is to roll out on Monday, so I can still squeeze a few ballots in!

omg i love a quick ballot turnaround, thanks so much leee!

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