Interactive fiction: text-based adventure 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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Journey: The Quest Begins
DOS19894.2/5 Infocom
Kingdom of Hamil
DOS19873/5 Topologika Software
Kingdom Without End
DOS2001freeware3/5
Knight orc
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Level 9 Computing
Lancelot
DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen
DOS19884.1/5 Tom Snyder Productions
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
Legend of the Sword
DOS19884/5 Silicon Software
Magnetic Scrolls Collection
DOS19914.1/5 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...
Mindshadow
DOSMac OS19853.6/5 Interplay Productions
Mindwheel
DOS19853.2/5 Synapse Software
Moonmist
DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
Myth
DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS19873.4/5 Infocom
Ooze: Creepy Nites
DOS19893/5 Dragonware Games
Perry Mason
DOS19853.9/5 Paisano Productions
Planetfall
DOS19834.2/5 Infocom
Plundered Hearts
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Infocom
Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing
DOS19853.9/5 Adventure International
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man
DOS19864.1/5 Adventure International
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is an abandoned text-based adventure game designed by Scott Adams, developed and released by Adventure International in 1986 for DOS but was also published for Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, ZX Spectrum, MSX. Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is part of the Questprobe game series, the ...
Questprobe featuring The Hulk
DOS19843.9/5 Adventure International
Rambo First Blood Part 2
DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
DOS19964/5
Rendezvous with Rama
DOS19853.7/5 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...
Return to Doom
DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software
Romantic encounters at the dome
DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions
Scapeghost
DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
Scrooge
DOS19913/5 Leisuresoft
Scrooge is an abandoned interactive fiction graphic adventure game developed and released by Leisuresoft in 1991 for DO. Scrooge is based on the popular Christmas tale of the same name.
Seastalker
DOS19844/5 Infocom
Sex Vixens from Space
DOS1989NSFW4/5 Free Spirit Software