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Interactive fiction: text-based adventure games sorted by year, newest first

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

1893-world-fair-04

1893: A World's Fair Mystery

Windows XP/98/95Mac20033.4/5
african-adventure-01

African Adventure

DOS1997remake3.6/5
jack-the-ripper-01

Jack the Ripper

DOS19953.8/5 Intergalactic Development
2112-01

2112

DOS19943/5
ericunready-1

Eric the Unready

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
gateway2_home_000

Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment
castleelsinore-1

Castle Elsinore

DOS19923.5/5 Temple Software
gateway1-3

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.
spellcasting301-4

Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

DOS1992protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
a-night-with-troi-01

A Night with Troi

DOS1991NSFW4/5
magnetic-scrolls-collection-02

Magnetic Scrolls Collection

DOS19914.1/5 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...
scrooge-04

Scrooge

DOS19913/5 Leisuresoft
Scrooge is an abandoned interactive fiction graphic adventure game developed and released by Leisuresoft in 1991 for DO. Scrooge is based on the popular Christmas tale of the same name.
spellcasting201-splash

Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance

DOS1991protected4/5 Legend Entertainment
timequest-01

Timequest

DOS1991protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
xtrek91-02

Xtrek

DOS1991freewareNSFW4/5
circuitsedge-2

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 various platforms including DOS, Amiga, and Commodore 64.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, corru...
spellcasting101-2

Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls

DOS1990protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
transylvania-3-04

Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night

DOS19903/5 Polarware
alice-wonderland-if-01

Alice in Wonderland

DOS19893.3/5
arthur-excalibur-02

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

DOS19894/5 Infocom
avon-1

Avon

DOS19893.4/5 Topologika Software
demon-tomb-02

Demon's Tomb: The Awakening

DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software
grail-quest-01

GrailQuest

DOS19893.3/5 Artworx Software
js-shogun-02

James Clavell's Shogun

DOS19894.2/5 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...
journey-adv-03

Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS19894.1/5 Infocom
myth-ms-02

Myth

DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
ooze-01

Ooze: Creepy Nites

DOS19893/5 Dragonware Games
scapeghost-1

Scapeghost

DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
sex-vixens-from-space-02

Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW4/5 Free Spirit Software