Interactive fiction: text-based adventure games sorted by title, from Z to A

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.

Most popular interactive fiction games

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

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James Clavell's Shogun

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A Night with Troi

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Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

DOS19894/5 Infocom

Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS19893.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions

Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle

DOS19883.4/5 Tom Snyder Productions

Zork III: The Dungeon Master

DOS19844/5 Infocom

Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz

DOS19834.3/5 Infocom

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

DOS19824.2/5 Infocom

Zork is one of the most popular text-adventures and one of the first interactive fiction games ever created. The first Zork was developed in the seventies and ported on various platform by Infocom in the early 80s. Infocom was one of the most prolific developers of text-adventures for home computers and created memorable interactive fiction ga...

Xtrek

DOS1991freewareNSFW4/5

Wishbringer

DOS19853.7/5 Infocom

Voodoo island

DOS19853.8/5 Angelsoft

Trinity

DOS19864.1/5 Infocom

Treasure Island

DOS19853.5/5 Byron Preiss Video Productions

Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night

DOS19903/5 Polarware

Transylvania

DOS1986freeware4/5 Polarware

Timequest

DOS1991protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment

Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing

The Wizard of Oz

DOS19853.9/5 Windham Classics

The Witness

DOS19834/5 Infocom

The Usurper

DOS19893.8/5 Sir-tech Software

The Shadows of Mordor

DOS19883.7/5 Beam Software

The Pawn

DOS19864/5 Magnetic Scrolls

The mist

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft

The Lurking Horror

DOS19874.1/5 Infocom

The Hound of Shadow

DOS19893.8/5 Eldritch Games

The Hobbit

DOS19833.9/5 Beam Software

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

DOSMac1984freeware4.2/5 Infocom

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a humorous free text adventure game based on the novel of the same name written by Douglas Adams (if you never read it, shame on you!). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was designed by Douglas Adams himself and interactive fiction god Steve Eric Meretzky, it was released by Infocom in 1984 for DOS and for...