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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DOS1986 Synapse Software

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

DOS1996

Tass Times in Tonetown

DOS1986 Interplay Productions

Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back

DOS1988 Level 9 Computing

Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS1985 Magicom Multimedia

Ballyhoo

DOS1986 Infocom

Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS1986 Magicom Multimedia

Star Trek: First Contact

DOS1988 Simon & Schuster Interactive

Avon

DOS1989 Topologika Software

Rendezvous with Rama

DOS1985 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...

Borrowed Time

DOS1985 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...

Scapeghost

DOS1989 Level 9 Computing

Moonmist

DOS1986 Infocom

Brimstone

DOS1985 Synapse Software

Castle Elsinore

DOS1992 Temple Software

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS1988 Challenge

The Golden Fleece

DOS1989

Treasure Island

DOS1985 Byron Preiss Video Productions

Holy Grail

DOS1984

Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS1989 Infocom

Ooze: Creepy Nites

DOS1989 Dragonware Games

Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS1989 Tom Snyder Productions

Gnome Ranger

DOS1987 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.