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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Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

DOSMac19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems

Lancelot

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing

Stationfall

DOS19873.9/5 Infocom

Voodoo island

DOS19853.8/5 Angelsoft

Demon's Forge

DOS19873.1/5 Mastertronic

Mindshadow

DOSMac19853.6/5 Interplay Productions

Spellbreaker

DOS19853.9/5 Infocom

Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance

DOS1991protected4/5 Legend Entertainment

Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected3.5/5 Paragon Software

Jinxter

DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Treasure Island

DOS19853.5/5 Byron Preiss Video Productions

Farenheit 451

DOS19843.4/5 Telarium

Return to Doom

DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software

Bureaucracy

DOSMac19873.9/5 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.