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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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...
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac OS1986 TRANS Fiction Systems
Tass Times in Tonetown
DOS1986 Interplay Productions
The Fellowship of the Ring
DOS1986 Beam Software
The Pawn
DOS1986 Magnetic Scrolls
Transylvania
DOS1986freeware Polarware
Trinity
DOS1986 Infocom
Acheton
DOS1987
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS1987 Infocom
Border Zone
DOS1987 Infocom
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.
Demon's Forge
DOS1987 Mastertronic
Gnome Ranger
DOS1987 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
DOS1987 Angelsoft
Kingdom of Hamil
DOS1987 Topologika Software
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.
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS1987 Infocom
Passengers on the Wind 2
DOS1987 Infogrames
Plundered Hearts
DOSMac OS1987 Infocom
Stationfall
DOS1987 Infocom
Supernova
DOS1987freeware Apogee Software
The Fourth Protocol
DOS1987 The Electronic Pencil Co.
The Fourth Protocol is a 1985 interactive fiction video game inspired by Frederick Forsyth's 1984 Cold War spy novel of the same name. Developed by the Electronic Pencil Company and published by Hutchinson Computer Publishing, the game was released on platforms such as the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and IBM PC (in 1997). Designed as a ...
The Guild of Thieves
DOS1987 Magnetic Scrolls
The Lurking Horror
DOS1987 Infocom
20000 Leagues under the sea
DOS1988 Coktel Vision
A Dudley Dilemma
DOS1988
Corruption
DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
Dream Zone
DOS1988 Naughty Dog
Fish!
DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls