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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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Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

DOS1982 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 Hobbit

DOS1983 Beam Software
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Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW Free Spirit Software
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9 Princes in Amber

DOS1985 Telarium
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Perry Mason

DOS1985 Paisano Productions
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Circuit's Edge

DOS1990 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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Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS1987 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.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

DOSMac OS1984freeware 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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Planetfall

DOS1983 Infocom
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Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance

DOS1991protectedNSFW 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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James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS1986 Angelsoft
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The Shadows of Mordor

DOS1988 Beam Software
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Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
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The Crack of Doom

DOS1989 Beam Software
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Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW Sierra On-Line
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A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac OS1985 Infocom
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A Night with Troi

DOS1991NSFW
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The Hound of Shadow

DOS1989 Eldritch Games
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Infidel

DOS1983 Infocom
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Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

DOS1992protected Legend Entertainment
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS1986 Infocom
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Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man

DOS1986 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 ...
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Eric the Unready

DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
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Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS1985 Angelsoft
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Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

DOSMac OS1986 TRANS Fiction Systems
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The Guild of Thieves

DOS1987 Magnetic Scrolls
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1893: A World's Fair Mystery

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003
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 ...