Thanks for consistently finding and sharing so many niche and interesting games. Your presence adds a lot to this site :)

aw, thank you, that's really nice to hear. i've been in a pretty deep gaming rut and hardly touching anything other than picross but i do hope to get back into more of the finding interesting little things instead of just cataloging things i feel bad about not having played yet soon

Dante’s Inferno

Black Rock Shooter: The Game more or less (adapted from an anime based on a song based on an online drawing?)

i decided to put games based on dante's inferno on my list of book adaptations, as well as a few other epic poems (e.g. beowulf, the iliad), since with this list i was interested in adaptations of short-form works, but i'll give it some thought—the alliterative morte arthure is comparable in length to inferno and longer than beowulf, though that twine game only adapts a short passage from the poem

'based on an anime based on a song' is interesting but i'm looking for a more direct relationship, in the same way that with the books list i try to avoid games based on movies based on books

Along with Library of Blabber, there's also Library of Babel 3D. Is this list specifically for literature that is written by others? Like, intertextual to another text?

oops i think i added library of babel 3d to the database specifically to put it on this list and then forgot to do the second part

I'd consider including something where someone was adapting their own work from one format to another if the source material was previously published/available to view in some form (rather than just a step in the iterative process of the game's creation), and it was actually an adaptation of said material and not just a sequel or another story in the same setting

Ihatovo Monogatari would count? It's not about one short story, but looks like various ones from Kenji Miyazawa. It's like a literature universe put in one game.

Ihatovo Monogatari came up as a suggestion for the books list, unfortunately i haven't managed to find specific information on which Miyazawa works it incorporates so I'm still not sure which list it's best suited to, but i will add it here for now

Miyamoto stole the idea for Super Mario 3d World from a limerick I wrote:

There once was a kitty cat bell
It was floating on top of a hill
Mario saw it
Jumped right on it
Now he's a kitty as well

does Blade Runner count?

no, it's based on a movie (which in turn is based on a full-length novel, not a short story - i have another list for those)