>You really can't go wrong browsing our list of the best games of all time. https://ifdb.org/search?browse

You can, because those games are the best according to the preferences of interactive fiction connaisseurs, and the preferences of connaisseurs never match those of the masses.

E.g. beer connaisseurs love IPAs, while most people find them way too bitter.

Beer connoisseurs don't love IPAs. Modern IPAs are the most like Budweiser rice beers that you can get in the fancy beer world, so that's what people who aspire to look like connoisseurs prefer. They prefer them to be very bitter, and/or flavored with exotic fruits, because they can't judge quality and rely on distinctness.

I just meant that absolutely none of those games suck.

I started playing Infocom games before there were online hints or even Invisiclues. I knew one of the authors quite well and resorted to (literally) calling him from time to time :-)

The number one game on the list is a word game not a text adventure game.

If I played that as my first text adventure I’d think text adventures with like advanced scrabble or wordle.

This is a good point! I have personally decided to save some of the all-time greatest games until I am better at text adventures and can enjoy them with fewer hints.