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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.

Most popular interactive fiction games

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Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

DOS19824.2/5 Infocom
Zork is one of the most popular text-adventures and one of the first interactive fiction games ever created. The first Zork was developed in the seventies and ported on various platform by Infocom in the early 80s. Infocom was one of the most prolific developers of text-adventures for home computers and created memorable interactive fiction ga...
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Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW4/5 Sierra On-Line
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Frederik Pohl's Gateway

DOS19924.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Frederik Pohl's Gateway is one of the best abandoned adventures games from Legend Entertainment. Gateway is an interactive fiction with graphics and an improved interface (unusual for IFs), based on the Frederik Pohl's novel Gateway. Tt was designed by Michael Verdu and Glen R. Dahlgren and published by Legend Entertainment in 1992.
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The Hobbit

DOS19833.9/5 Beam Software
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James Clavell's Shogun

DOS19894.3/5 Infocom
James Clavell's Shogun, a text adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1989. Infocom was known for its interactive fiction games, and "James Clavell's Shogun" was one of its later releases.This text adventure game is based on James Clavell's novel "Shogun" and follows the story of John Blackthorne, an English navigator who becomes invol...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

DOSMac OS1984freeware4.2/5 Infocom
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a humorous free text adventure game based on the novel of the same name written by Douglas Adams (if you never read it, shame on you!). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was designed by Douglas Adams himself and interactive fiction god Steve Eric Meretzky, it was released by Infocom in 1984 for DOS and for...
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Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man

DOS19864.1/5 Adventure International
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is an abandoned text-based adventure game designed by Scott Adams, developed and released by Adventure International in 1986 for DOS but was also published for Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, ZX Spectrum, MSX. Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is part of the Questprobe game series, the ...
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Suspended

DOS19833.9/5 Infocom
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A Night with Troi

DOS1991NSFW4/5
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Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz

DOS19834.3/5 Infocom
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A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac OS19854.1/5 Infocom
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Jack the Ripper

DOS19953.8/5 Intergalactic Development
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
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The Crack of Doom

DOS19893.7/5 Beam Software
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Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW4/5 Free Spirit Software
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Circuit's Edge

DOS19904.1/5 Westwood Studios
Circuit's Edge is a cyberpunk-themed role-playing game developed by Westwood Associates and published by Infocom. It was released in 1990 for various platforms including DOS, Amiga, and Commodore 64.Set in a dystopian future, Circuit's Edge takes place in the fictional city of Rhoes Island, a dark and gritty urban landscape filled with crime, corru...
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Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle

DOS19883.4/5 Tom Snyder Productions
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Zork III: The Dungeon Master

DOS19844/5 Infocom
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Planetfall

DOS19834.1/5 Infocom
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Xtrek

DOS1991freewareNSFW4/5
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Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
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Trinity

DOS19864.1/5 Infocom
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Amnesia

DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation
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Dream Zone

DOS19884.2/5 Naughty Dog
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Borrowed Time

DOS19853.6/5 Interplay Productions
Borrowed Time is a graphic adventure video game developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was released in 1985 for various platforms, including the Apple Macintosh, Apple II, DOS, and Atari ST. The game is notable for its early use of digitized photos and a noir-style detective narrative.The game's story is set in the 1930s and foll...
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Adventure in Serenia

DOS19823.6/5 Sierra On-Line
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Cutthroats

DOS19843.4/5 Infocom
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Demon's Tomb: The Awakening

DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software
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Holy Grail

DOS19843.7/5