Interactive fiction: text-based adventure games sorted by year, newest first
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1893: A World's Fair Mystery
Windows XP/98/95Mac20033.4/5
African Adventure
DOS1997remake3.6/5
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
DOS19964/5
Jack the Ripper
DOS19953.8/5 Intergalactic Development
2112
DOS19943/5
Eric the Unready
DOS1993protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment
Castle Elsinore
DOS19923.5/5 Temple 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.
Spellcasting 301: Spring Break
DOS1992protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
A Night with Troi
DOS1991NSFW4/5
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
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.
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance
DOS1991protected4/5 Legend Entertainment
Timequest
DOS1991protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Xtrek
DOS1991freewareNSFW4/5
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...
Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls
DOS1990protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night
DOS19903/5 Polarware
Alice in Wonderland
DOS19893.3/5
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
DOS19894/5 Infocom
Avon
DOS19893.4/5 Topologika Software
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software
GrailQuest
DOS19893.3/5 Artworx Software
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: The Quest Begins
DOS19894.1/5 Infocom
Myth
DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Ooze: Creepy Nites
DOS19893/5 Dragonware Games
Scapeghost
DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
Sex Vixens from Space
DOS1989NSFW4/5 Free Spirit Software