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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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...
Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS1986 Infocom
Jack the Ripper
DOS1995 Intergalactic Development
Amnesia
DOS1986 Cognetics corporation
Transylvania
DOS1986freeware Polarware
Hollywood Hijinx
DOS1986 Infocom
Journey: The Quest Begins
DOS1989 Infocom
Sorcerer
DOS1984 Infocom
Sherlock Holmes: Another bow
DOS1985 Magicom Multimedia
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...
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.
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS1989 Silhouette Software
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.
Starcross
DOS1982 Infocom
2112
DOS1994
Jewels of Darkness
DOS1986 Level 9 Computing
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS1985 The Software Toolworks
Perry Mason
DOS1985 Paisano Productions
The Usurper
DOS1989 Sir-tech Software
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos
DOS1986 Magicom Multimedia
Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom
DOS1989 Tom Snyder Productions
Supernova
DOS1987freeware Apogee Software
Time and Magik: The Trilogy
DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
Beyond the Titanic
DOS1986 Apogee Software
Dream Zone
DOS1988 Naughty Dog
Timequest
DOS1991protected Legend Entertainment
Silicon Dreams
DOS1986 Level 9 Computing
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game combines elements of science fiction with puzzle-solving and exploration. All three games are text-based, relying on d...
Seastalker
DOS1984 Infocom
Earthly delights
DOS1984 Datamost