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.

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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Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS19853.8/5 Adventure International
The Crack of Doom

DOS19893.7/5 Beam Software
Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
Deadline

DOS19823.8/5 Infocom
Demon's Forge

DOS19872.9/5 Mastertronic
James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft
2112

DOS19943/5
Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls

DOS1990protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
The Shadows of Mordor

DOS19883.7/5 Beam Software
The Guild of Thieves

DOS19874.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS19853.5/5 Magicom Multimedia
Acheton

DOS19873.7/5
Knight orc

DOSMac19873.9/5 Level 9 Computing
Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

DOS1992protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
1893: A World's Fair Mystery

Windows XP/98/95Mac20033.8/5
Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment
9 Princes in Amber

DOS19854.2/5 Telarium
Jack the Ripper

DOS19954/5 Intergalactic Development
Borrowed Time

DOS19853.7/5 Interplay Productions

Borrowed Time is a graphic adventure video game developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was released in 1985 for various platforms, including the Apple Macintosh, Apple II, DOS, and Atari ST. The game is notable for its early use of digitized photos and a noir-style detective narrative.The game's story is set in the 1930s and foll...
Castle Adventure

DOS1984freeware4.2/5
Eric the Unready

DOS1993protected4/5 Legend Entertainment
Sorcerer

DOS19844.1/5 Infocom
Bureaucracy

DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom

Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.
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...
Dream Zone

DOS19884.2/5 Naughty Dog
Timequest

DOS1991protected4.1/5 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.
The Pawn

DOS19863.9/5 Magnetic Scrolls
The Hound of Shadow

DOS19893.8/5 Eldritch Games
The mist

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft