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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DOS1984 Infocom
A Dudley Dilemma
DOS1988
A Dudley Dilemma (1988) sounds like the title of a children’s book, but it’s actually a very British text adventure for DOS where the stakes are politely quirky and mildly confusing. You play as Dudley, a man with problems that range from the mundane to the absurd, depending on your choices and sense of direction - both literal and narr...
GrailQuest
DOS1989 Artworx Software
Caverns of Chaos
DOS1992
Silicon Dreams
DOS1986 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...
Starcross
DOS1982 Infocom
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS1987 Infocom
Legend of the Sword
DOS1988 Silicon Software
Ooze: Creepy Nites
DOS1989 Dragonware Games
Mindwheel
DOS1985 Synapse Software
Kingdom Without End
DOS2001freeware
Farenheit 451
DOS1984 Telarium
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS1985 The Software Toolworks
Passengers on the Wind 2
DOS1987 Infogrames
Holy Grail
DOS1984
Kingdom of Hamil
DOS1987 Topologika Software
Passengers on the Wind
DOS1986 Infogrames
Essex
DOS1985 Synapse Software
The Golden Fleece
DOS1989
Scrooge
DOS1991 Leisuresoft
Scrooge is an abandoned interactive fiction graphic adventure game developed and released by Leisuresoft in 1991 for DO. Scrooge is based on the popular Christmas tale of the same name.