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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 Fellowship of the Ring

DOS1986 Beam Software
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Corruption

DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
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Jack the Ripper

DOS1995 Intergalactic Development
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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 ...
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Scapeghost

DOS1989 Level 9 Computing
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James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS1986 Angelsoft
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Lancelot

DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
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The Witness

DOS1983 Infocom
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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...
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Demon's Tomb: The Awakening

DOS1989 Silhouette Software
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Treasure Island

DOS1985 Byron Preiss Video Productions
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Forbidden Quest

DOS1983 Pryority software
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Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS1985 Magicom Multimedia
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Deadline

DOS1982 Infocom
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The Wizard of Oz

DOS1985 Windham Classics
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The Shadows of Mordor

DOS1988 Beam Software
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Jinxter

DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
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Spellbreaker

DOS1985 Infocom
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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 ...
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS1986 Infocom
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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...
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Stationfall

DOS1987 Infocom
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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...
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Xtrek

DOS1991freewareNSFW
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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...
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Dream Zone

DOS1988 Naughty Dog