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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Corruption
DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
Jack the Ripper
DOS1995 Intergalactic Development
Forbidden Quest
DOS1983 Pryority software
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...
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS1987 Infocom
If you ever wanted to roleplay in a text adventure where a coconut is of utmost importance, Beyond Zork has your back. This is Infocom at its most delightfully weird: part RPG, part parser game, all nonsense. You’ll customiz...
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...
Lancelot
DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
Rambo First Blood Part 2
DOS1985 Angelsoft
Xtrek
DOS1991freewareNSFW
Transylvania
DOS1986freeware Polarware
Gnome Ranger
DOS1987 Level 9 Computing
Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.
The Shadows of Mordor
DOS1988 Beam Software
The Fellowship of the Ring
DOS1986 Beam Software
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS1986 Infocom
Stationfall
DOS1987 Infocom
The Wizard of Oz
DOS1985 Windham Classics
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS1986 Angelsoft
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS1987 Angelsoft
Spellbreaker
DOS1985 Infocom
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 ...
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS1987 Infocom
The Witness
DOS1983 Infocom
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...
Dream Zone
DOS1988 Naughty Dog
Myth
DOS1989 Magnetic Scrolls
Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night
DOS1990 Polarware
Treasure Island
DOS1985 Byron Preiss Video Productions
Perry Mason
DOS1985 Paisano Productions
Bureaucracy
DOSMac OS1987 Infocom
Douglas Adams, the twisted genius behind Hitchhiker’s Guide, brings you the most terrifying adventure of all: paperwork. Bureaucracy turns mundane modern life into a text-based hellscape of lost forms, passive-aggressive cle...