The best 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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The Hound of Shadow
DOS19893.8/5 Eldritch Games
Amazon
DOS19843.8/5 Telarium
Fish!
DOS19883.8/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Jack the Ripper
DOS19953.8/5 Intergalactic Development
Acheton
DOS19873.7/5
The Crack of Doom
DOS19893.7/5 Beam Software
Wishbringer
DOS19853.7/5 Infocom
Borrowed Time
DOS19853.7/5 Interplay Productions
Borrowed Time is a graphic adventure video game developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was released in 1985 for various platforms, including the Apple Macintosh, Apple II, DOS, and Atari ST. The game is notable for its early use of digitized photos and a noir-style detective narrative.The game's story is set in the 1930s and foll...
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.
Holy Grail
DOS19843.7/5
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...
Scapeghost
DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
Starcross
DOS19823.7/5 Infocom
Essex
DOS19853.6/5 Synapse Software
Silicon Dreams
DOS19863.6/5 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...
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS19853.6/5 The Software Toolworks
Star Trek: First Contact
DOS19883.6/5 Simon & Schuster Interactive
Adventure in Serenia
DOS19823.6/5 Sierra On-Line
African Adventure
DOS1997remake3.6/5
Mindshadow
DOSMac OS19853.6/5 Interplay Productions
Earthly delights
DOS19843.6/5 Datamost
Ballyhoo
DOS19863.5/5 Infocom
Castle Elsinore
DOS19923.5/5 Temple Software
Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy
DOS1988protected3.5/5 Paragon Software
Sherlock Holmes: Another bow
DOS19853.5/5 Magicom Multimedia
Supernova
DOS1987freeware3.5/5 Apogee Software
Treasure Island
DOS19853.5/5 Byron Preiss Video Productions
Brimstone
DOS19853.4/5 Synapse Software
Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle
DOS19883.4/5 Tom Snyder Productions
Avon
DOS19893.4/5 Topologika Software