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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DOS19843.7/5 Telarium

Mindshadow

DOSMac19853.6/5 Interplay Productions

Spellbreaker

DOS19853.9/5 Infocom

Lancelot

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing

9 Princes in Amber

DOS19854.1/5 Telarium

Border Zone

DOS19873.8/5 Infocom

Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance

DOS1991protected4/5 Legend Entertainment

Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected3.5/5 Paragon Software

Voodoo island

DOS19853.8/5 Angelsoft

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

DOS19964/5

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

The Witness

DOS19834/5 Infocom

Essex

DOS19853.6/5 Synapse Software

Supernova

DOS1987freeware3.5/5 Apogee 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.