Interesting topic, and also interesting to see what people's thoughts are.

I'll give my top ten, but personally I'm not counting muds like alteraeon or materiamagica, or brouser games.

10: pinball extreme. Great sounds, and wonderful for a quick blast, what an arcade game should be.

9: Pipe 2. best of the bsc games imho, lots to do and great for taking time.

8: Q9. Funny character, nice sounds, and action gameplay pluss good difficulty on different levels.

7: blind adrenaline cardroom. Awsome for tournaments and other play, with lots of fun stuff and well worked out keys.

6: Time of conflict. Already a fantastic stratogy game and likely to get even better soon.

5: Lunimals. Great stratogy game with interesting missions, the only reason it's not higher is that castaways beat it.

4:  Sarah. lovely adventure game with harry potter. A litle complicated to just pickup and play, but great once you get into it.

3: Shades of doom. My first audio game, and stil awsome even after all this time.

2: Castaways. One of my favourite games produced recently, a truly single player stratogy with great randomized gameplay.

1: Entombed. Stil unbeaten as audio game with largest amount of randomization, pluss is stil the only audio turn based rpg (airik is an action rpg obviously).

Of course this list is! subject to change. I've not really had enough time with swamp yet to see the latest chagnes, though i suspect that will end up in there too, and the last time I played sikum jidai and mario they were a trifle buggy and struck me as a litle beta-ish, I'm also not including perilous hearts sinse it's just a concept demo, though I suspect that will change things, and as for mota, well again I'm waiting to see where that one goes. I've not tried the new version of sound rts, though there I'm stil! waiting for some good single player missions myself.

One nice thing though is that people's lists have changed quite a lot sinse the last time we had this sort of discussion, which certainly shows audio games are moving on very nicely.

I think this is the thread: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?id=6798

Hmmm, methinks this looks like fun, so I'll have a shot.

These are the games I remember playing and that truly impacted me in 2011.

10.  Night of Parasite: the further you go, the less sure you are that what you're doing is the right thing.
9. Playroom, 1000 miles: I've played in teams and with none and liked both concepts.
8. RSGames, Yahtzee: it's pointless, it's impossible to ensure you win, and it's maddening at times, and all of this is what keeps me coming back.  When you've got close friends, you'll definitely want to try and convince them to play this one with you.
7. Super Liam: flying fireballs, robodogs, mutated rats, and a complicated final boss, all in a fairly simple and easy to operate sidescroller.
6.  Q9:  club one, club em all!  Throw rocks, and hope you don't get chomped on by those mad bears!  Jump, little alien, and good luck going home!
5.  Sound RTS: I actually threw together a few campagne maps, but deleted them because I felt I did a clunky job at putting them together.
4.  GMA Tank Commander: sector five was perhaps the hardest bit, with rockets coming at you unexpectedly, but I finally got through.  Hurray for endless hours of mindblasting craziness and projectiles!
3.  Lunimals: make a million by feeding grass and moss to little critters, and little critters to bigger critters!  Watch the hands of time, for they can play tricks on you!
2. Castaways: goblins, yeti, and whoreds of undead!  Even in its first incarnation, the game was superb and had me playing for 12 hours straight!

And finally, the game of games in Nocturnus's list, the winner of the pack, the game that made the number one slot that all the others failed to grab...

Drum roll please!

ENTOMBED:

When first purchased in 2010, I knew I had made a great choice.  I would come to this website during the beginning of that year and find a new update in the news archive, and Dark would be at it again, raving about how great the game was, and near about to drive me up the wall with it.  And I'm glad for that, because after I'd had enough of that, I decided I'd go try the game for myself and see what he was on about.  It was here that I learned to trust his judgement on games, for even when I had played games on mainstream consoles, I had never been so involved and lost track of time completely.  An hour would come, and go, and then another, and another, and I'd still not even gotten close to completeing the second level, because at the time, we didn't have the pets to help us, and I think enemies were a little more powerful than they are now, but I was thrilled nevertheless.  Some 16 hours later, it occurs to me that I've probably been playing for at least 12 hours and have made no progress, and that because of my endless hours of mindless fun, I needed to just call it quits, go to bed and ask for advice on how to beat it later on the forums, but before I could ask, a new version was released which took care of many of the problems I'd been having.  The game became fun in a new way.  I was able to make progress.  Today, it is still the game I go back to most often, for even though there has been no truly significant change, the game changes with every session on its own by offering you more creatures to explore and secret items to uncover.  The dungeons are never quite the same, so you can be sure of nothing except that the bosses you will face.  The quests can be rather challenging, and the outcome of certain spells is never certain, reincarnation, for instance.

As many have said, these lists are subject to change.  I have found myself focussing less and less on games that require immense ear coordination as I haven't the greatest of hearing anymore.  It took a couple of shots at swamp to clinch that for me.  It is a sad thing to know that I will never truly get the full effect of games like World of War and swamp because of it, but it is what it is.

Happy gaming, peeps, and keep those lists coming!

hi. my top 10.

1
operacion black square
2
worl of war
3
GMA tank comander
4
perols hearts
5
swamp
6
shades of dunes
7
3D velocity
8
kurt wolf
9
damage extreme
10
top speed 3

thanks.

Hi,

Now I got a name for another one of my upcoming titles! Whirl of war!

I was wondering when someone'd mention me, but that someone'd class me as one with a number one game? Sweet!
Time to compile a top 10 list of my own. I'm a weird gamer, so this could be interesting!

Let's bring this topic back to life!
Here's my top10:

1. Swamp - So far it's one, of the greatest audio games I've tried, if only the maps had more ambience.
2. SOD - It was the first game I tried, so it is kinda special
3. SEH - I love small, simple games
4. TS3 - I've spent lots of hours on it, it's just great
5. Entombed - Cool, but not my favorit
6. JD - Fun if you just want some quick action
7. Play Room - The chess game is great, even if it maybe has some bugs, and domeno can be fun too
8. Magic Blocks - Not Tetris, but close enough for me to like it
9. Egg Hunt - It's old, but it's one of the first games I tried
10. SCW - Full of bugs, but still fun to play if you're bored

Lol! I love 9 and 10, I maybe should play those two a bit more...

Heh, long descriptions can be quite nice if they're written well, so... Hmm... Think I have the same problem about books, I can't really write something short about them, either it's too short or a full summary of the text... Lol!

@Dark
What I need to do is sign up to the audici mailing list thing since there's a lot of discussion concerning games out there; while I don't mind going through the new releases room to try new games, it seems that you always find a few things I never would have even heard of until you post about them.  ON the other hand, I am proud of my discovery of audio archery after hearing that Liam was up to something with IOS and game development; so many devs with ideas, and I don't even know where to start!

I guess I need to go ahunting a little more often; goodness, where has my adventure streak gone? 

I shall find at least one game before the end of the summer, and that is final!  lol

I feel like I'm so behind everywhere though; I just now found out that Jim actually released yet another adlt oriented game about a month ago browsing through the DB and trying to figure out what already had entries and what didn't so I could avoid writing yet another entry; this is where my hiding under rocks got me; part of it is Swamp's fault too.  :d

Interesting choice on raceway as number one, sinse we've not seen anything of that game as yet.

@nocturnus, trying games is always a good thing. Back in 2006 when i discovered audio games existed, I tried everything I could lay my hands on, indeed probably all the playable games in the db at that time (which was admitedly about a quarter the size it is now), and even got some surprises when games that I didn't initially like the sound of proved to be pretty good once I gave them a go.

I'd advise anyone to do this, but still more for making db entries, sinse the more you know about audio games generally, what is available, what has been tried etc, the more coherently you can write about stuff.

I will confess my games playing has fallen off a bit of late, mostly due to working on my thesis, though I still try to give new offerings a going over when I can.

No problem with your english Mario, and I think Tom would be pleased to here that.

I agree that his games have great potential, however currently I am rather concerned over them being finished. Yes, mota has had it's false starts, changes of language, rewrites of the engine, that stuipd lawsuit and everything else, to the point that poor old Tom is feeling burned out with the project and has put in a good amount of time, but hasn't actually produced a major quantity of playable material.

While I don't doubt Tom's dedication, or his ability, it feels sometimes as if he is too much a perfectionist, and spends so much time geting the code just! right, that the actual production of a quantitive body of work suffers a little.

I'm on the Usa games testers list, and while I can't divulge what he's working on now, it does indeed sound absolutely amazing, I just really hope he can finally get something finished, done, dusted and out of the door.

this is why I'm a little scheptical of raceway. If tom made the game, I'm pretty certain it would be great, but how much time he's spent on actually creating the game rather than doing a lot of back stage work I don't know.

As I said, this isn't to knock Usa games or Tom's work, I appreciate both, I just do sometimes feel a little frustrated with the lack of anything concrete to play, and yet another! revision of the code.

hopefully this will change in the future though, and eventually we'll see some awesome games fnished, still, i wouldn't put any prospective projects on a top ten list myself, sinse who knows when they will materialize.