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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The Fellowship of the Ring
DOS1986 Beam Software
Corruption
DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
Jack the Ripper
DOS1995 Intergalactic Development
Frederik Pohl's Gateway
DOS1992 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 ...
Scapeghost
DOS1989 Level 9 Computing
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS1986 Angelsoft
Lancelot
DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
The Witness
DOS1983 Infocom
African Adventure
DOS1997remake
African Adventure is one of those games that feels like it was made during a two-hour layover at the airport - but somehow, it works. Set in the savannah, it combines survival, exploration, and a splash of educational trivia (prob...
Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night
DOS1990 Polarware
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS1989 Silhouette Software
Treasure Island
DOS1985 Byron Preiss Video Productions
Forbidden Quest
DOS1983 Pryority software
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative
DOS1985 Micromosaics
Sherlock Holmes: Another bow
DOS1985 Magicom Multimedia
Deadline
DOS1982 Infocom
The Wizard of Oz
DOS1985 Windham Classics
The Shadows of Mordor
DOS1988 Beam Software
Jinxter
DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS1987 Angelsoft
Spellbreaker
DOS1985 Infocom
Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle
DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
Interactive fiction meets comic book in this spin-off, where you follow a fantasy story through illustrated panels and scripted choices. Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle feels like your dungeon master turned into a storyboard ...
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS1986 Infocom
Silicon Dreams
DOS1986 Level 9 Computing
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game com...
Stationfall
DOS1987 Infocom
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS1987 Infocom
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...
Xtrek
DOS1991freewareNSFW
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 witt...
Dream Zone
DOS1988 Naughty Dog