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...

The Hobbit

DOS1983 Beam Software

Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW Free Spirit Software

Planetfall

DOS1983 Infocom

Planetfall is an interactive fiction sci-fie game released in 1983 by Infocom, written by Steve Meretzky. It is often considered one of Infocom's best titles. You play as a low-ranking Ensign Seventh Class in the Stellar Patrol, stuck doing menial janitorial tasks aboard the starship Featherstone. However, after an emergency escape pod launch,...

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS1985 Angelsoft

Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW Sierra On-Line

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...

The Pawn

DOS1986 Magnetic Scrolls

Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz

DOS1983 Infocom

A Night with Troi

DOS1991NSFW

The Lurking Horror

DOS1987 Infocom

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

DOS1989 Infocom

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 ...

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.

20000 Leagues under the sea

DOS1988 Coktel Vision

Xtrek

DOS1991freewareNSFW

A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac OS1985 Infocom

The Guild of Thieves

DOS1987 Magnetic Scrolls

Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS1985 Adventure International

Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative

DOS1985 Micromosaics

Plundered Hearts

DOSMac OS1987 Infocom

James Clavell's Shogun

DOS1989 Infocom

James Clavell's Shogun, a text adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1989. Infocom was known for its interactive fiction games, and "James Clavell's Shogun" was one of its later releases.This text adventure game is based on James Clavell's novel "Shogun" and follows the story of John Blackthorne, an English navigator who becomes invol...