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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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James Clavell's Shogun

DOS1989 Infocom
James Clavell's Shogun, a text adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1989. Infocom was known for its interactive fiction games, and "James Clavell's Shogun" was one of its later releases.This text adventure game is based on James Clavell's novel "Shogun" and follows the story of John Blackthorne, an English navigator who becomes invol...
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Jewels of Darkness

DOS1986 Level 9 Computing
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Castle Adventure

DOS1984freeware
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Dream Zone

DOS1988 Naughty Dog
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Suspect

DOS1984 Infocom
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS1986 Infocom
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The Guild of Thieves

DOS1987 Magnetic Scrolls
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

DOSMac OS1984freeware 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...
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Planetfall

DOS1983 Infocom
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Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

DOS1982 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...
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A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac OS1985 Infocom
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Frederik Pohl's Gateway

DOS1992 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.
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Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS1989 Infocom
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Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS1985 Angelsoft
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Lancelot

DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
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Myth

DOS1989 Magnetic Scrolls
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Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls

DOS1990protected Legend Entertainment
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Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

DOS1992protected Legend Entertainment
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James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS1986 Angelsoft
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Eric the Unready

DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
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Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
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Trinity

DOS1986 Infocom
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Magnetic Scrolls Collection

DOS1991 Magnetic Scrolls
Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
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A Night with Troi

DOS1991NSFW
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9 Princes in Amber

DOS1985 Telarium
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Timequest

DOS1991protected Legend Entertainment
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Circuit's Edge

DOS1990 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...
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Breakers

DOS1986 Synapse Software
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Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen

DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions