Interactive fiction to play online
Interactive fiction is a niche but fascinating genre. Its golden age was in the 1980s, when pioneering software houses like Infocom, Level 9, and Legend Entertainment created intricate "text adventures" that are still rememberd today. These games relied solely on text to tell their stories, requiring players to type commands and solve puzzles to progress.
Though no longer in the mainstream spotlight, interactive fiction has never truly disappeared. A community of creators and fans keeps the scene alive, and thanks to modern interpreters and tools, it's easy to play both classic and contemporary IF titles, often completely free.
Abandonware DOS hosts a few good old interactive fiction classics. You can download them all, and play online quite a few of them:
- Zork
- Planetfall
- The Shadows of Mordor
- 9 Princes in Amber
- Leather Goddesses of Phobos
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- A Mind Forever Voyaging
- Corruption
- Scapeghost
- Time and Magik
- The Hobbit
- Rendezvous with Rama