The most popular Engine: Z-machine games

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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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Planetfall

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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...

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...

Planetfall

DOS19834.1/5 Infocom

Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz

DOS19834.3/5 Infocom

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

DOS19894/5 Infocom

Plundered Hearts

DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom

Zork III: The Dungeon Master

DOS19844/5 Infocom

Starcross

DOS19823.7/5 Infocom

Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

DOS19894/5 Infocom

Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS19864.2/5 Infocom

Enchanter

DOS19833.3/5 Infocom

The Lurking Horror

DOS19874.1/5 Infocom

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 Challenge

Wishbringer

DOS19853.7/5 Infocom

Sorcerer

DOS19844.1/5 Infocom

A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac19854.1/5 Infocom

Cutthroats

DOS19843.4/5 Infocom

Ballyhoo

DOS19863.5/5 Infocom

Border Zone

DOS19873.8/5 Infocom

Suspended

DOS19833.9/5 Infocom

Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS19894.1/5 Infocom

Deadline

DOS19823.8/5 Infocom

Trinity

DOS19864.1/5 Infocom

Moonmist

DOS19863.8/5 Infocom

Stationfall

DOS19873.9/5 Infocom

Spellbreaker

DOS19853.9/5 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.