Games made with the Z-machine engine, by Infocom

The Z-machine was developed by Infocom and used in its interactive fiction games. Z-machine is a virtual machine that allows a developer to easily develop text-adventures for multiple platforms without much hassle. A number of interpreters exists so you can play both old and new text adventures on dead platforms as well as recent ones: Glulx, Inform, TADS, etc.

Most popular Engine: Z-machine games

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

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Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

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Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz

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Engine: Z-machine games

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A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac19854.1/5 Infocom
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

DOS19894.1/5 Infocom
Ballyhoo

DOS19863.5/5 Infocom
Border Zone

DOS19873.8/5 Infocom
Bureaucracy

DOSMac19873.9/5 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.
Cutthroats

DOS19843.3/5 Infocom
Deadline

DOS19823.8/5 Infocom
Enchanter

DOS19833.3/5 Infocom
Hollywood Hijinx

DOS19863.3/5 Infocom
Infidel

DOS19833.3/5 Infocom
Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS19894/5 Infocom
Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS19864.1/5 Infocom
Moonmist

DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It

DOS19873.4/5 Infocom
Planetfall

DOS19834.1/5 Infocom
Plundered Hearts

DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom
Seastalker

DOS19844/5 Infocom
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 Challenge
Sorcerer

DOS19844.1/5 Infocom
Spellbreaker

DOS19853.9/5 Infocom
Starcross

DOS19823.7/5 Infocom
Stationfall

DOS19873.9/5 Infocom
Suspect

DOS19844.1/5 Infocom
Suspended

DOS19833.8/5 Infocom
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

DOSMac1984freeware4.2/5 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...
The Lurking Horror

DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
The Witness

DOS19834/5 Infocom
Trinity

DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
Wishbringer

DOS19853.8/5 Infocom
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...