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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Corruption

DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Holy Grail

DOS19843.7/5

Beyond the Titanic

DOS19863.8/5 Apogee Software

Stationfall

DOS19873.9/5 Infocom

The Lurking Horror

DOS19874.1/5 Infocom

Magnetic Scrolls Collection

DOS19914.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...

Jewels of Darkness

DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing

Border Zone

DOS19873.8/5 Infocom

Alice in Wonderland

DOS19893.3/5

Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS19853.5/5 Magicom Multimedia

Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls

DOS1990protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment

A Dudley Dilemma

DOS19883.3/5

Transylvania

DOS1986freeware4/5 Polarware

Farenheit 451

DOS19843.4/5 Telarium

Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

DOSMac OS19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems

Dragon World

DOS19844.2/5 Telarium

Hollywood Hijinx

DOS19863.3/5 Infocom

Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative

DOS19854/5 Micromosaics

Starcross

DOS19823.7/5 Infocom

Perry Mason

DOS19853.9/5 Paisano Productions

GrailQuest

DOS19893.4/5 Artworx Software

Gnome Ranger

DOS19873.7/5 Level 9 Computing

Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.

The Witness

DOS19834/5 Infocom

James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft

Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS19894.1/5 Infocom

Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night

DOS19903/5 Polarware

Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance

DOS1991protected4/5 Legend Entertainment

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 Challenge

The Fourth Protocol

DOS19874/5 The Electronic Pencil Co.

Silicon Dreams

DOS19863.6/5 Level 9 Computing

Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game combines elements of science fiction with puzzle-solving and exploration. All three games are text-based, relying on d...