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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DOS1984 Telarium

James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS1986 Angelsoft

Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients

DOS1987 Angelsoft

Knight Orc

DOSMac OS1987 Level 9 Computing

Knight Orc is a text-based adventure game released in 1987 by Level 9 Computing, a British game development studio renowned for creating interactive fiction during the 1980s. In Knight Orc, you play as Grindleguts the Orc, flipping the conventional fantasy trope of playing a heroic knight or adventurer.

Jack the Ripper

DOS1995 Intergalactic Development

The Lurking Horror

DOS1987 Infocom

The Fellowship of the Ring

DOS1986 Beam Software

The Pawn

DOS1986 Magnetic Scrolls

Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

DOS1989 Infocom

Wishbringer

DOS1985 Infocom

Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS1986 Infocom

20000 Leagues under the sea

DOS1988 Coktel Vision

Plundered Hearts

DOSMac OS1987 Infocom

The Shadows of Mordor

DOS1988 Beam Software

Zork III: The Dungeon Master

DOS1984 Infocom

Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls

DOS1990protected Legend Entertainment

The Hound of Shadow

DOS1989 Eldritch Games

Castle Adventure

DOS1984freeware

Star Trek: First Contact

DOS1988 Simon & Schuster Interactive

Timequest

DOS1991protected Legend Entertainment

Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS1987 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.