Interactive fiction: text-based adventure games sorted by year, newest first

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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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

DOSMac19873.9/5 Level 9 Computing

Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It

DOS19873.4/5 Infocom

Plundered Hearts

DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom

Silicon Dreams

DOS19873.6/5 Level 9 Computing

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

Amnesia

DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation

Ballyhoo

DOS19863.5/5 Infocom

Beyond the Titanic

DOS19863.8/5 Apogee Software

Breakers

DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software

Hollywood Hijinx

DOS19863.3/5 Infocom

James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft

Jewels of Darkness

DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing

Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS19864.2/5 Infocom

Moonmist

DOS19863.8/5 Infocom

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 ...