The most popular interactive fiction games

Interactive fiction games (or text adventures) are adventure games in which the player gives textual commands in order to act within the given story. The story itself is told both using text and static pictures or with no graphics of any kind, just text. The genre's stepping stones are Adventure (developed in 1975) and the Zork series. Infocom, Legend Entertainment and Magnetic scrolls were some of the most popular interactive fiction developers of the 80s.

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Suspended

DOS19833.9/5 Infocom

20000 Leagues under the sea

DOS19883.8/5 Coktel Vision

Cutthroats

DOS19843.4/5 Infocom

Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle

DOS19883.4/5 Tom Snyder Productions

Timequest

DOS1991protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment

Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment

Questprobe featuring The Hulk

DOS19843.9/5 Adventure International

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

DOS19894/5 Infocom

9 Princes in Amber

DOS19854.1/5 Telarium

Sorcerer

DOS19844.1/5 Infocom

Trinity

DOS19864.1/5 Infocom

Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients

DOS19874/5 Angelsoft

Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

DOS1992protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment

The mist

DOS19854/5 Angelsoft

Rendezvous with Rama

DOS19853.7/5 Telarium

Myth

DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Eric the Unready

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment

The Pawn

DOS19864/5 Magnetic Scrolls

1893: A World's Fair Mystery

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS20033.6/5

1893: A World's Fair Mystery is an interactive fiction game developed by the American studio Illuminated Lantern and released in 2002. Set during the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the game combines historical fiction with mystery-solving gameplay.In 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, players take on the role of a detective investigating ...

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft

Wishbringer

DOS19853.7/5 Infocom

Demon's Tomb: The Awakening

DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software

Star Trek: First Contact

DOS19883.6/5 Simon & Schuster Interactive

Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing

The Hound of Shadow

DOS19893.8/5 Eldritch Games

Demon's Forge

DOS19873.1/5 Mastertronic

Plundered Hearts

DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Infocom

Moonmist

DOS19863.8/5 Infocom

Forbidden Quest

DOS19833.8/5 Pryority software

Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Infocom

Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.