Interactive fiction: text-based adventure games sorted by release date

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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Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

DOSMac19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems

Tass Times in Tonetown

DOS19863.9/5 Interplay Productions

The Fellowship of the Ring

DOS19864.1/5 Beam Software

The Pawn

DOS19864/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Transylvania

DOS1986freeware4/5 Polarware

Trinity

DOS19864.1/5 Infocom

Acheton

DOS19873.7/5

Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor

DOS19874/5 Infocom

Border Zone

DOS19873.8/5 Infocom

Bureaucracy

DOSMac19873.9/5 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.

Demon's Forge

DOS19873.1/5 Mastertronic

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.