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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Transylvania

DOS1986freeware4/5 Polarware

Dragon World

DOS19843.9/5 Telarium

The Fourth Protocol

DOS19874/5 The Electronic Pencil Co.

Deadline

DOS19823.9/5 Infocom

Treasure Island

DOS19853.5/5 Byron Preiss Video Productions

Mindshadow

DOSMac OS19853.6/5 Interplay Productions

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.

The Pawn

DOS19864/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Dream Zone

DOS19884.2/5 Naughty Dog

Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing

Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS19894.2/5 Infocom

Acheton

DOS19873.7/5

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 Challenge

Jinxter

DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia

Gnome Ranger

DOS19873.7/5 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.