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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 Guild of Thieves

DOS19874.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
amnesia-3

Amnesia

DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation
1893-world-fair-04

1893: A World's Fair Mystery

Windows XP/98/95Mac20033.4/5
castle-adventure-04

Castle Adventure

DOS1984freeware4.2/5
breakers-1

Breakers

DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software
enchanter-1

Enchanter

DOS19833.3/5 Infocom
startrek1stcontact-1

Star Trek: First Contact

DOS19883.6/5 Simon & Schuster Interactive
rambo-first-blood-01

Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
time-and-magik-03

Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
thepawn-4

The Pawn

DOS19864/5 Magnetic Scrolls
wishbringer-1

Wishbringer

DOS19853.7/5 Infocom
shadowsmordor-3

The Shadows of Mordor

DOS19883.7/5 Beam Software
lurkinghorror-1

The Lurking Horror

DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
ericunready-1

Eric the Unready

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
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Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment
skthemist-1

The mist

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
spellcasting101-2

Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls

DOS1990protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
houndshadow-1

The Hound of Shadow

DOS19893.8/5 Eldritch Games
sorcerer-1

Sorcerer

DOS19844.1/5 Infocom
_amfv_001

A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac19854.1/5 Infocom
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Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle

DOS19883.4/5 Tom Snyder Productions
4th-protocol-02

The Fourth Protocol

DOS19874/5 The Electronic Pencil Co.
legend-of-the-sword-03

Legend of the Sword

DOS19884/5 Silicon Software
startrekkobayashi-1

Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative

DOS19854/5 Micromosaics
dragon-world-01

Dragon World

DOS19844.2/5 Telarium
deadline-2

Deadline

DOS19823.8/5 Infocom
dream-zone-02

Dream Zone

DOS19884.2/5 Naughty Dog