Interactive fiction: text-based adventure 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.

Most popular interactive fiction games

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Interactive fiction games

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Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen

DOS19884/5 Tom Snyder Productions
Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS19864.1/5 Infocom
Legend of the Sword

DOS19884.2/5 Silicon Software
Magnetic Scrolls Collection

DOS19914/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
Mindshadow

DOSMac19853.6/5 Interplay Productions
Mindwheel

DOS19853.2/5 Synapse Software
Moonmist

DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
Myth

DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It

DOS19873.4/5 Infocom
Ooze: Creepy Nites

DOS19893/5 Dragonware Games
Perry Mason

DOS19853.9/5 Paisano Productions
Planetfall

DOS19834.1/5 Infocom
Plundered Hearts

DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom
Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS19853.8/5 Adventure International
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man

DOS19864.1/5 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 ...
Questprobe featuring The Hulk

DOS19843.8/5 Adventure International
Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

DOS19963.8/5
Rendezvous with Rama

DOS19853.7/5 Telarium
Return to Doom

DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software
Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions
Scapeghost

DOS19893.8/5 Level 9 Computing
Scrooge

DOS19913/5
Seastalker

DOS19844/5 Infocom
Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW4/5 Free Spirit Software
Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS19853.5/5 Magicom Multimedia
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 Challenge
Silicon Dreams

DOS19873.6/5 Level 9 Computing
Skullduggery: Adventures in Horror

DOS19863.1/5