The Labyrinth of Time 
Bradley W. Schenck’s terrific blend of the ordinary and the surreal stages a one-of-a-kind world that elevates an otherwise by-the-numbers adventure.
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The Labyrinth of Time
The Legend of Lotus Spring
The only game from Women Wise, a company dedicated to software for women, The Legend of Lotus Spring takes you an overflowingly emotional journey of loss and remembrance.
Lemmings Paintball 
Lemmings and paintball complement each other better than you’d expect, and Lemmings Paintball‘s sloppiness is less the fault of its ridiculous concept than of its execution.
Lighthouse: The Dark Being
Although blatantly inspired by Myst, Sierra’s Lighthouse has its own take on how to build an indifferent world.
Lode Runner 2 
When the Lode Runner series moved into 3D, it got more overwhelming, frustrating, and delightful.
The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain 
The third game in the Dr. Brain series is quite fun because of its multi-subject education – not in spite of it.
Lunicus 
Cyberflix’s sci-fi opus – an early stab at a narrative-driven shooter – largely fails as both an action game and an adventure game, though there’s glimpses of something innovative under the surface.
The Madness of Roland 
This early CD-ROM novel by Hyperbole Studios imagines how to tell a story across multiple perspectives and mediums, an inventive idea even though the story is muddled.
Marble Drop
This ornate Rube Goldberg-esque game, done in the style of a Renaissance-era drawing, has the same appeal as a picture book. You don’t even have to finish playing it right to enjoy it! One of the few games completed by the Austin branch of Maxis.
Microsoft Dinosaurs 
Microsoft Home’s Jurassic reference guide upends the digital encyclopedia model by showing the relations between articles, even if its information is out-of-date.