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The best 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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Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man

DOS1986 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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The Lurking Horror

DOS1987 Infocom
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Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW Free Spirit Software
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Castle Adventure

DOS1984freeware
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Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

DOSMac OS1986 TRANS Fiction Systems
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Transylvania

DOS1986freeware Polarware
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Amnesia

DOS1986 Cognetics corporation
In Amnesia, you wake up in a hotel room with no idea who you are, where you are, or why someone wants you dead. And no, this isn’t a gritty FPS—it’s a text adventure. That’s right, no graphics, just your imagination and 40,000 lines of written paranoia. Written by Thomas M. Disch (yes, the actual science fiction author), it&...
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The Fellowship of the Ring

DOS1986 Beam Software
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Corruption

DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
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Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

DOS1989 Infocom
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur is a text adventure with occasional graphics, in which you, the not-yet-king, bumble your way through Camelot trying to prove you’re not just some kid with a weird haircut. The writing is witty, the puzzles devilish, and the parser only mildly homicidal. It’s part history, part fantasy, and entirely charm...
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Dragon World

DOS1984 Telarium
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Forbidden Castle

DOS1985 Angelsoft
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Jinxter

DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
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Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen

DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
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Seastalker

DOS1984 Infocom
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Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS1986 Magicom Multimedia
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Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance

DOS1991protectedNSFW Legend Entertainment
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance is an adventure game released in 1991, developed by Steve Meretzky and published by Legend Entertainment. It’s the second installment in the "Spellcasting" series. In Spellcasting 201, you reprise the role of Ernie Eaglebeak, an apprentice wizard who is attending the Sorcerer University. The sto...
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Stationfall

DOS1987 Infocom
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The Witness

DOS1983 Infocom
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The Hobbit

DOS1983 Beam Software
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Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW Sierra On-Line
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Xtrek

DOS1991freewareNSFW
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The Pawn

DOS1986 Magnetic Scrolls