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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Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night
DOS19903.4/5 Polarware
Transylvania
DOS1986freeware4/5 Polarware
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...
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...
The Hobbit
DOS19834/5 Beam Software
Softporn Adventure
DOS1981freewareNSFW3.9/5 Sierra On-Line
Sex Vixens from Space
DOS1989NSFW4/5 Free Spirit Software
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.
Planetfall
DOS19834.2/5 Infocom
A Night with Troi
DOS1991NSFW4.1/5
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...
Amnesia
DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation
A Mind Forever Voyaging
DOSMac OS19854.1/5 Infocom
1893: A World's Fair Mystery
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS20033.9/5
1893: A World's Fair Mystery is an interactive fiction game developed by the American studio Illuminated Lantern and released in 2002. Set during the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the game combines historical fiction with mystery-solving gameplay.In 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, players take on the role of a detective investigating ...
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...
Perry Mason
DOS19853.9/5 Paisano Productions
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
DOS19834.2/5 Infocom
James Bond 007: A View to a Kill
DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
Zork III: The Dungeon Master
DOS19844/5 Infocom
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
DOS19894/5 Infocom
The Guild of Thieves
DOS19874.2/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS19894/5 Infocom
The Crack of Doom
DOS19893.7/5 Beam Software
9 Princes in Amber
DOS19854.1/5 Telarium
20000 Leagues under the sea
DOS19883.8/5 Coktel Vision
Sorcerer
DOS19843.9/5 Infocom
Deadline
DOS19823.9/5 Infocom
Jack the Ripper
DOS19953.8/5 Intergalactic Development
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS19874/5 Infocom
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS19874/5 Angelsoft