The best 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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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, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, ZX Spectrum, MSX. Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is part of the Questprobe game series, the ...
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
DOS1988 Challenge
The Lurking Horror
DOS1987 Infocom
Zork III: The Dungeon Master
DOS1984 Infocom
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac OS1986 TRANS Fiction Systems
Transylvania
DOS1986freeware Polarware
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative
DOS1985 Micromosaics
Sex Vixens from Space
DOS1989NSFW Free Spirit Software
Amnesia
DOS1986 Cognetics corporation
The Fellowship of the Ring
DOS1986 Beam Software
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS1989 Infocom
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
DOS1989 Infocom
Corruption
DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
Forbidden Castle
DOS1985 Angelsoft
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS1987 Angelsoft
Jinxter
DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen
DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
Legend of the Sword
DOS1988 Silicon Software
Seastalker
DOS1984 Infocom
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos
DOS1986 Magicom Multimedia
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance
DOS1991protectedNSFW Legend Entertainment
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance is an adventure game released in 1991, developed by Steve Meretzky and published by Legend Entertainment. It’s the second installment in the "Spellcasting" series. In Spellcasting 201, you reprise the role of Ernie Eaglebeak, an apprentice wizard who is attending the Sorcerer University. The sto...
Stationfall
DOS1987 Infocom
The Golden Fleece
DOS1989
The Witness
DOS1983 Infocom
The Hobbit
DOS1983 Beam Software
Softporn Adventure
DOS1981freewareNSFW Sierra On-Line
Xtrek
DOS1991freewareNSFW
The Pawn
DOS1986 Magnetic Scrolls
The mist
DOS1985 Angelsoft