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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Plundered Hearts

DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Infocom

Sorcerer

DOS19843.9/5 Infocom

Spellbreaker

DOS19853.9/5 Infocom

Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW3.9/5 Sierra On-Line

1893: A World's Fair Mystery

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS20033.9/5

1893: A World's Fair Mystery is an interactive fiction game developed by the American studio Illuminated Lantern and released in 2002. Set during the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the game combines historical fiction with mystery-solving gameplay.In 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, players take on the role of a detective investigating ...

Knight orc

DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Level 9 Computing

Questprobe featuring The Hulk

DOS19843.9/5 Adventure International

Dragon World

DOS19843.9/5 Telarium

Perry Mason

DOS19853.9/5 Paisano Productions

Suspended

DOS19833.9/5 Infocom

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft

Deadline

DOS19823.9/5 Infocom

Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions

Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS19853.9/5 Adventure International

Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment

Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS19873.9/5 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.