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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Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor

DOS1987 Infocom

Plundered Hearts

DOSMac OS1987 Infocom

Sorcerer

DOS1984 Infocom

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.

Spellbreaker

DOS1985 Infocom

Dragon World

DOS1984 Telarium

Perry Mason

DOS1985 Paisano Productions

Suspended

DOS1983 Infocom

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS1985 Angelsoft

Deadline

DOS1982 Infocom

The Wizard of Oz

DOS1985 Windham Classics

Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS1985 Adventure International

Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS1988 MicroIllusions

Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment

Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS1987 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.

Tass Times in Tonetown

DOS1986 Interplay Productions

Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back

DOS1988 Level 9 Computing

Moonmist

DOS1986 Infocom

The Usurper

DOS1989 Sir-tech Software

Beyond the Titanic

DOS1986 Apogee Software

20000 Leagues under the sea

DOS1988 Coktel Vision

Forbidden Quest

DOS1983 Pryority software

1893: A World's Fair Mystery

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003

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 ...