Interactive fiction: text-based adventure games sorted by year, newest first

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 Crack of Doom

DOS19893.7/5 Beam Software

The Golden Fleece

DOS19894/5

The Hound of Shadow

DOS19893.8/5 Eldritch Games

The Usurper

DOS19893.8/5 Sir-tech Software

Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS19893.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions

Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

DOS19894/5 Infocom

20000 Leagues under the sea

DOS19883.8/5 Coktel Vision

A Dudley Dilemma

DOS19883.3/5

Corruption

DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Dream Zone

DOS19884.2/5 Naughty Dog

Fish!

DOS19883.8/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams

DOS19883.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions

Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back

DOS19883.8/5 Level 9 Computing

Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected3.5/5 Paragon Software

Jinxter

DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Lancelot

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing

Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen

DOS19884/5 Tom Snyder Productions

Legend of the Sword

DOS19884/5 Silicon Software

Return to Doom

DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software

Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 Challenge

Star Trek: First Contact

DOS19883.6/5 Simon & Schuster Interactive

The Shadows of Mordor

DOS19883.7/5 Beam Software

Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing

Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle

DOS19883.4/5 Tom Snyder Productions

Acheton

DOS19873.7/5

Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor

DOS19874/5 Infocom

Border Zone

DOS19873.8/5 Infocom

Bureaucracy

DOSMac19873.9/5 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.