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.

Most popular interactive fiction games

Castle Adventure

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Border Zone

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Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back

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Castle Adventure

DOS1984freeware4.2/5
Border Zone

DOS19873.8/5 Infocom
Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS19864.1/5 Infocom
Deadline

DOS19823.8/5 Infocom
James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft
Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS19894/5 Infocom
Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW4/5 Free Spirit Software
Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back

DOS19883.8/5 Level 9 Computing
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 ...
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

DOS19894/5 Infocom
Gnome Ranger

DOS19873.7/5 Level 9 Computing

Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.
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...
The Lurking Horror

DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 Challenge
Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS19853.5/5 Magicom Multimedia
Mindwheel

DOS19853.2/5 Synapse Software
Castle Elsinore

DOS19923.5/5 Temple Software
Transylvania

DOS1986freeware4/5 Polarware
Suspended

DOS19833.8/5 Infocom
Brimstone

DOS19853.4/5 Synapse Software
Moonmist

DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
Farenheit 451

DOS19843.4/5 Telarium
Return to Doom

DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software
A Dudley Dilemma

DOS19883.1/5
Scapeghost

DOS19893.8/5 Level 9 Computing
Adventure in Serenia

DOS19823.6/5 Sierra On-Line
Enchanter

DOS19833.3/5 Infocom
Holy Grail

DOS19843.7/5
Starcross

DOS19823.7/5 Infocom
Planetfall

DOS19834.1/5 Infocom