Interactive fiction: text-based adventure 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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Dragon World

DOS19844.2/5 Telarium
Dream Zone

DOS19884.1/5 Naughty Dog
Earthly delights

DOS19843.6/5 Datamost
Enchanter

DOS19833.3/5 Infocom
Eric the Unready

DOS1993protected4/5 Legend Entertainment
Essex

DOS19853.6/5 Synapse Software
Farenheit 451

DOS19843.4/5 Telarium
Fish!

DOS19883.8/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Forbidden Castle

DOS19853.8/5 Angelsoft
Forbidden Quest

DOS19833.8/5 Pryority software
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.
Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams

DOS19883.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions
Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment
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.
Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back

DOS19883.8/5 Level 9 Computing
Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected3.5/5 Paragon Software
Hollywood Hijinx

DOS19863.3/5 Infocom
Holy Grail

DOS19843.7/5
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients

DOS19874/5 Angelsoft
Infidel

DOS19833.3/5 Infocom
Jack the Ripper

DOS19954/5 Intergalactic Development
James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft
James Clavell's Shogun

DOS19894.2/5 Infocom
Jewels of Darkness

DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing
Jinxter

DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS19894/5 Infocom
Kingdom of Hamil

DOS19873/5 Topologika Software
Knight orc

DOSMac19873.9/5 Level 9 Computing
Lancelot

DOS19884/5 Level 9 Computing