Interactive fiction: text-based adventure 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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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 ...
20000 Leagues under the sea
DOS1988 Coktel Vision
2112
DOS1994
9 Princes in Amber
DOS1985 Telarium
A Dudley Dilemma
DOS1988
A Mind Forever Voyaging
DOSMac OS1985 Infocom
A Night with Troi
DOS1991NSFW
Acheton
DOS1987
Adventure in Serenia
DOS1982 Sierra On-Line
African Adventure
DOS1997remake
Alice in Wonderland
DOS1989
Amazon
DOS1984 Telarium
Amnesia
DOS1986 Cognetics corporation
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
DOS1989 Infocom
Avon
DOS1989 Topologika Software
Ballyhoo
DOS1986 Infocom
Beyond the Titanic
DOS1986 Apogee Software
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS1987 Infocom
Border Zone
DOS1987 Infocom
Borrowed Time
DOS1985 Interplay Productions
Borrowed Time is a graphic adventure video game developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was released in 1985 for various platforms, including the Apple Macintosh, Apple II, DOS, and Atari ST. The game is notable for its early use of digitized photos and a noir-style detective narrative.The game's story is set in the 1930s and foll...
Breakers
DOS1986 Synapse Software
Brimstone
DOS1985 Synapse Software
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.
Castle Adventure
DOS1984freeware
Castle Elsinore
DOS1992 Temple Software
Caverns of Chaos
DOS1992
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...
Corruption
DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
Cutthroats
DOS1984 Infocom
Deadline
DOS1982 Infocom