The best 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.

Most popular interactive fiction games

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Legend of the Sword

DOS19884.2/5 Silicon Software
Castle Adventure

DOS1984freeware4.2/5
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz

DOS19834.2/5 Infocom
9 Princes in Amber

DOS19854.2/5 Telarium
Trinity

DOS19864.2/5 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...
Dragon World

DOS19844.2/5 Telarium
James Clavell's Shogun

DOS19894.2/5 Infocom
Jewels of Darkness

DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing
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...
A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac19854.1/5 Infocom
Dream Zone

DOS19884.1/5 Naughty Dog
Planetfall

DOS19834.1/5 Infocom
Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS19864.1/5 Infocom
Myth

DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
The Guild of Thieves

DOS19874.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls

DOS1990protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Frederik Pohl's Gateway

DOS19924.1/5 Legend Entertainment

Frederik Pohl's Gateway is one of the best abandoned adventures games from Legend Entertainment. Gateway is an interactive fiction with graphics and an improved interface (unusual for IFs), based on the Frederik Pohl's novel Gateway. Tt was designed by Michael Verdu and Glen R. Dahlgren and published by Legend Entertainment in 1992.
The Fellowship of the Ring

DOS19864.1/5 Beam Software
Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

DOS1992protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Suspect

DOS19844.1/5 Infocom
Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
A Night with Troi

DOS1991NSFW4.1/5
The Lurking Horror

DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft
Breakers

DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software
Timequest

DOS1991protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man

DOS19864.1/5 Adventure International

Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is an abandoned text-based adventure game designed by Scott Adams, developed and released by Adventure International in 1986 for DOS but was also published for Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, ZX Spectrum, MSX. Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is part of the Questprobe game series, the ...
Sorcerer

DOS19844.1/5 Infocom