Interactive fiction: text-based adventure 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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1893: A World's Fair Mystery
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS20033.9/5
1893: A World's Fair Mystery is an interactive fiction game developed by the American studio Illuminated Lantern and released in 2002. Set during the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the game combines historical fiction with mystery-solving gameplay.In 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, players take on the role of a detective investigating ...
20000 Leagues under the sea
DOS19883.8/5 Coktel Vision
2112
DOS19943/5
9 Princes in Amber
DOS19854.1/5 Telarium
A Dudley Dilemma
DOS19883.3/5
A Mind Forever Voyaging
DOSMac OS19854.1/5 Infocom
A Night with Troi
DOS1991NSFW4.1/5
Acheton
DOS19873.7/5
Adventure in Serenia
DOS19823.6/5 Sierra On-Line
African Adventure
DOS1997remake3.6/5
Alice in Wonderland
DOS19893.3/5
Amazon
DOS19843.8/5 Telarium
Amnesia
DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
DOS19894/5 Infocom
Avon
DOS19893.4/5 Topologika Software
Ballyhoo
DOS19863.5/5 Infocom
Beyond the Titanic
DOS19863.8/5 Apogee Software
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS19874/5 Infocom
Border Zone
DOS19873.8/5 Infocom
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...
Breakers
DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software
Brimstone
DOS19853.4/5 Synapse Software
Bureaucracy
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 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.
Castle Adventure
DOS1984freeware4.2/5
Castle Elsinore
DOS19923.5/5 Temple Software
Caverns of Chaos
DOS19923/5
Circuit's Edge
DOS19904.1/5 Westwood Studios
Circuit's Edge is a cyberpunk-themed role-playing game developed by Westwood Associates and published by Infocom. It was released in 1990 for MS-DOS. Set in a dystopian future, Circuit's Edge takes place in the fictional city of Rhoes Island, a dark and gritty urban landscape filled with crime, corruption, and advanced technology. Players take on t...
Corruption
DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Cutthroats
DOS19843.4/5 Infocom
Deadline
DOS19823.9/5 Infocom