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The most popular 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.
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The Hobbit

DOS19834/5 Beam Software
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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...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

DOSMac OS1984freeware4.2/5 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...
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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...
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Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW4/5 Free Spirit Software
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Perry Mason

DOS19853.9/5 Paisano Productions
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A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac OS19854.1/5 Infocom
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Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW4/5 Sierra On-Line
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A Night with Troi

DOS1991NSFW4.1/5
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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.
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Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment
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Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance

DOS1991protectedNSFW4/5 Legend Entertainment
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance is an adventure game released in 1991, developed by Steve Meretzky and published by Legend Entertainment. It’s the second installment in the "Spellcasting" series. In Spellcasting 201, you reprise the role of Ernie Eaglebeak, an apprentice wizard who is attending the Sorcerer University. The sto...
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Zork III: The Dungeon Master

DOS19844/5 Infocom
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The Guild of Thieves

DOS19874.2/5 Magnetic Scrolls
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Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz

DOS19834.2/5 Infocom
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Planetfall

DOS19834.2/5 Infocom
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Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative

DOS19854/5 Micromosaics
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Supernova

DOS1987freeware3.5/5 Apogee Software
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The Hound of Shadow

DOS19893.8/5 Eldritch Games
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Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls

DOS1990protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
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Suspended

DOS19833.9/5 Infocom
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Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

DOSMac OS19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems
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Forbidden Quest

DOS19833.8/5 Pryority software
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James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
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The Crack of Doom

DOS19893.8/5 Beam Software
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The Fellowship of the Ring

DOS19864/5 Beam Software
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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.