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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Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics

DOS1985 The Software Toolworks

Return to Doom

DOS1988 Topologika Software

Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams

DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions

Infidel

DOS1983 Infocom

Tass Times in Tonetown

DOS1986 Interplay Productions

Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS1989 Tom Snyder Productions

More illustrations, more intrigue, more doom. The Crystal of Doom continues the hybrid of comic-style storytelling and light role-playing with just enough choices to make you feel clever (or guilty). This time, you’re chasin...

Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen

DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions

Trinity

DOS1986 Infocom

Mindshadow

DOSMac OS1985 Interplay Productions

Ooze: Creepy Nites

DOS1989 Dragonware Games

Fish!

DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls

Caverns of Chaos

DOS1992

Breakers

DOS1986 Synapse Software

In Breakers, you're a high-tech wrecking crew with a mission: break stuff. Computers, walls, enemy morale—whatever gets in your way. Released in 1986, it feels like a mutant crossbreed of action game and low-budget sci-fi mo...

Holy Grail

DOS1984

Kingdom Without End

DOS2001freeware

Suspended

DOS1983 Infocom

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.