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.
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Journey: The Quest Begins
DOS1989 Infocom
Kingdom of Hamil
DOS1987 Topologika Software
Kingdom Without End
DOS2001freeware
Knight Orc
DOSMac OS1987 Level 9 Computing
Knight Orc is a text-based adventure game released in 1987 by Level 9 Computing, a British game development studio renowned for creating interactive fiction during the 1980s. In Knight Orc, you play as Grindleguts the Orc, flipping the conventional fantasy trope of playing a heroic knight or adventurer.
Lancelot
DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen
DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS1986 Infocom
Legend of the Sword
DOS1988 Silicon Software
Magnetic Scrolls Collection
DOS1991 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
DOSMac OS1985 Interplay Productions
Mindwheel
DOS1985 Synapse Software
Moonmist
DOS1986 Infocom
Myth
DOS1989 Magnetic Scrolls
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS1987 Infocom
Ooze: Creepy Nites
DOS1989 Dragonware Games
Passengers on the Wind
DOS1986 Infogrames
Passengers on the Wind 2
DOS1987 Infogrames
Perry Mason
DOS1985 Paisano Productions
Planetfall
DOS1983 Infocom
Planetfall is an interactive fiction sci-fie game released in 1983 by Infocom, written by Steve Meretzky. It is often considered one of Infocom's best titles. You play as a low-ranking Ensign Seventh Class in the Stellar Patrol, stuck doing menial janitorial tasks aboard the starship Featherstone. However, after an emergency escape pod launch,...
Plundered Hearts
DOSMac OS1987 Infocom
Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing
DOS1985 Adventure International
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 ...
Questprobe featuring The Hulk
DOS1984 Adventure International
Rambo First Blood Part 2
DOS1985 Angelsoft
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 of Arthur C. Clarke's novel is one of the earlier attempts to translate a science fiction classic into an interactive for...
Return to Doom
DOS1988 Topologika Software
Romantic encounters at the dome
DOS1988 MicroIllusions
Scapeghost
DOS1989 Level 9 Computing
Scrooge
DOS1991 Leisuresoft
Scrooge is an abandoned interactive fiction graphic adventure game developed and released by Leisuresoft in 1991 for DO. Scrooge is based on the popular Christmas tale of the same name.