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.

Most popular interactive fiction applications

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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The Hobbit

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Interactive fiction applications

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Sorcerer

DOS19844.1/5 Infocom
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 Challenge
Lancelot

DOS19884/5 Level 9 Computing
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance

DOS1991protected4/5 Legend Entertainment
Magnetic Scrolls Collection

DOS19914/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative

DOS19854/5 Micromosaics
A Night with Troi

DOS1991NSFW4/5
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

DOS19894/5 Infocom
Corruption

DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Circuit's Edge

DOS19904/5 Westwood Studios

Circuit's Edge is a single-player science fiction blend of adventure game and RPG, developed by Westwood Studios and released by Infocom in 1990. Circuit's Edge is based on George Alec Effinger's cyberpunk novel "When Gravity Fails".
Amnesia

DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation
Eric the Unready

DOS1993protected4/5 Legend Entertainment
Jack the Ripper

DOS19954/5 Intergalactic Development
Jinxter

DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen

DOS19884/5 Tom Snyder Productions
Seastalker

DOS19844/5 Infocom
Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW4/5 Free Spirit Software
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

DOSMac19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems
The Fourth Protocol

DOS19874/5 The Electronic Pencil Co.
The Golden Fleece

DOS19894/5
The Hobbit

DOS19834/5 Beam Software
The Witness

DOS19834/5 Infocom
Transylvania

DOS1986freeware4/5 Polarware
Zork III: The Dungeon Master

DOS19844/5 Infocom
Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW4/5 Sierra On-Line
Xtrek

DOS1991freewareNSFW4/5
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients

DOS19874/5 Angelsoft
Plundered Hearts

DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom
Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment