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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Skullduggery: Adventures in Horror
DOS19863.4/5
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac OS19864/5 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
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.
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.
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS19874/5 Angelsoft
Kingdom of Hamil
DOS19873/5 Topologika Software
Knight orc
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Level 9 Computing
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS19873.4/5 Infocom
Plundered Hearts
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Infocom
Stationfall
DOS19873.9/5 Infocom
Supernova
DOS1987freeware3.5/5 Apogee Software
The Fourth Protocol
DOS19874/5 The Electronic Pencil Co.
The Guild of Thieves
DOS19874.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
The Lurking Horror
DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
20000 Leagues under the sea
DOS19883.8/5 Coktel Vision
A Dudley Dilemma
DOS19883.3/5
Corruption
DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Dream Zone
DOS19884.2/5 Naughty Dog
Fish!
DOS19883.8/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams
DOS19883.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions
Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back
DOS19883.8/5 Level 9 Computing