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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Scapeghost

DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing

Earthly delights

DOS19843.6/5 Datamost

Jewels of Darkness

DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing

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...

Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS19893.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions

Ballyhoo

DOS19863.5/5 Infocom

The Pawn

DOS19864/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Rendezvous with Rama

DOS19853.7/5 Telarium

Acheton

DOS19873.7/5

Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions

Cutthroats

DOS19843.4/5 Infocom

Knight orc

DOSMac19873.9/5 Level 9 Computing

Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS19853.5/5 Magicom Multimedia

Deadline

DOS19823.8/5 Infocom

Questprobe featuring The Hulk

DOS19843.9/5 Adventure International

Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics

DOS19853.5/5 The Software Toolworks

Perry Mason

DOS19853.9/5 Paisano Productions

Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

DOS1992protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment

Demon's Tomb: The Awakening

DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software

Lancelot

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

DOS19964/5

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.