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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.
9-princes-in-amber-02

9 Princes in Amber

DOS19854.1/5 Telarium
_amfv_001

A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac19854.1/5 Infocom
borrowed-time-04

Borrowed Time

DOS19853.6/5 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...
brimstone-1

Brimstone

DOS19853.4/5 Synapse Software
essex-02

Essex

DOS19853.6/5 Synapse Software
forbidden-castle-03

Forbidden Castle

DOS19854/5 Angelsoft
jamesbondview2kill-1

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
mindshadow-05

Mindshadow

DOSMac19853.6/5 Interplay Productions
mindwheel-02

Mindwheel

DOS19853.2/5 Synapse Software
perrymason-1

Perry Mason

DOS19853.9/5 Paisano Productions
questprobeff-1

Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS19853.9/5 Adventure International
rambo-first-blood-01

Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
rendezvousrama-1

Rendezvous with Rama

DOS19853.7/5 Telarium
sherlockholmesbow-1

Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS19853.5/5 Magicom Multimedia
spellbreaker-02

Spellbreaker

DOS19853.9/5 Infocom
startrekkobayashi-1

Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative

DOS19854/5 Micromosaics
skthemist-1

The mist

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
wizard-of-oz-02

The Wizard of Oz

DOS19853.9/5 Windham Classics
treasure-island-01

Treasure Island

DOS19853.5/5 Byron Preiss Video Productions
voodoisland-1

Voodoo island

DOS19853.8/5 Angelsoft
wishbringer-1

Wishbringer

DOS19853.7/5 Infocom
amazon-crichton-04

Amazon

DOS19843.7/5 Telarium
castle-adventure-04

Castle Adventure

DOS1984freeware4.2/5
cutthroats-02

Cutthroats

DOS19843.3/5 Infocom
dragon-world-01

Dragon World

DOS19844.2/5 Telarium
earthlydelights-1

Earthly delights

DOS19843.6/5 Datamost
farehneith451-04

Farenheit 451

DOS19843.4/5 Telarium
holy-grail-04

Holy Grail

DOS19843.7/5
questprobe-hulk-01

Questprobe featuring The Hulk

DOS19843.8/5 Adventure International