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Interactive fiction: text-based adventure games sorted by release date

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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Essex

DOS1985 Synapse Software
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Forbidden Castle

DOS1985 Angelsoft
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Mindshadow

DOSMac OS1985 Interplay Productions
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Mindwheel

DOS1985 Synapse Software
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Perry Mason

DOS1985 Paisano Productions
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Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS1985 Adventure International
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Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS1985 Angelsoft
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Rendezvous with Rama

DOS1985 Telarium
Rendezvous with Rama is an interactive fiction (text adventure) game released in 1984. Telarium, a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, was known for producing narrative-driven games based on popular literary works. This adaptation o...
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Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS1985 Magicom Multimedia
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Spellbreaker

DOS1985 Infocom
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The mist

DOS1985 Angelsoft
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The Wizard of Oz

DOS1985 Windham Classics
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Treasure Island

DOS1985 Byron Preiss Video Productions
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Voodoo island

DOS1985 Angelsoft
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Wishbringer

DOS1985 Infocom
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Amnesia

DOS1986 Cognetics corporation
In Amnesia, you wake up in a hotel room with no idea who you are, where you are, or why someone wants you dead. And no, this isn’t a gritty FPS—it’s a text adventure. That’s right, no graphics, just your im...
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Ballyhoo

DOS1986 Infocom
Come one, come all, to the saddest circus ever pixelated. In Ballyhoo, you're stuck in a depressing carnival trying to solve a kidnapping while dealing with clowns, carnies, and the worst text parser since your last therapy sessio...
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Beyond the Titanic

DOS1986 Apogee Software
Before Titanic was a movie with a lot of weeping, there was Beyond the Titanic, a text adventure where surviving the iceberg is just the beginning. The game takes the historic disaster and then says, “What if we added a secr...
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Breakers

DOS1986 Synapse Software
In Breakers, you're a high-tech wrecking crew with a mission: break stuff. Computers, walls, enemy morale—whatever gets in your way. Released in 1986, it feels like a mutant crossbreed of action game and low-budget sci-fi mo...
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Hollywood Hijinx

DOS1986 Infocom
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James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS1986 Angelsoft
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Jewels of Darkness

DOS1986 Level 9 Computing
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS1986 Infocom
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Moonmist

DOS1986 Infocom
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Passengers on the Wind

DOS1986 Infogrames
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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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Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS1986 Magicom Multimedia