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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The Hobbit
DOS1983 Beam Software
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...
Softporn Adventure
DOS1981freewareNSFW Sierra On-Line
Sex Vixens from Space
DOS1989NSFW Free Spirit Software
A Night with Troi
DOS1991NSFW
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...
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...
Perry Mason
DOS1985 Paisano Productions
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...
The Shadows of Mordor
DOS1988 Beam Software
Planetfall
DOS1983 Infocom
Frederik Pohl's Gateway
DOS1992 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.
A Mind Forever Voyaging
DOSMac OS1985 Infocom
Forbidden Quest
DOS1983 Pryority software
The Crack of Doom
DOS1989 Beam Software
The Fellowship of the Ring
DOS1986 Beam Software
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS1986 Infocom
Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS1986 Angelsoft
20000 Leagues under the sea
DOS1988 Coktel Vision
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.
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS1989 Infocom
The Guild of Thieves
DOS1987 Magnetic Scrolls
9 Princes in Amber
DOS1985 Telarium
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
DOS1983 Infocom
Eric the Unready
DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS1987 Angelsoft
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 ...
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
DOS1989 Infocom
Xtrek
DOS1991freewareNSFW