Games made with the Z-machine engine, by Infocom
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
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A Mind Forever Voyaging
DOSMac OS19854.1/5 Infocom
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
DOS19894/5 Infocom
Ballyhoo
DOS19863.5/5 Infocom
Border Zone
DOS19873.8/5 Infocom
Bureaucracy
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 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.
Cutthroats
DOS19843.4/5 Infocom
Deadline
DOS19823.9/5 Infocom
Enchanter
DOS19833.3/5 Infocom
Hollywood Hijinx
DOS19863.3/5 Infocom
Infidel
DOS19833.3/5 Infocom
Journey: The Quest Begins
DOS19894.1/5 Infocom
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
Moonmist
DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS19873.4/5 Infocom
Planetfall
DOS19834.2/5 Infocom
Plundered Hearts
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Infocom
Seastalker
DOS19844/5 Infocom
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
DOS19884.1/5 Challenge
Sorcerer
DOS19843.9/5 Infocom
Spellbreaker
DOS19853.9/5 Infocom
Starcross
DOS19823.7/5 Infocom
Stationfall
DOS19874/5 Infocom
Suspect
DOS19844.2/5 Infocom
Suspended
DOS19833.9/5 Infocom
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
DOSMac OS1984freeware4.2/5 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...
The Lurking Horror
DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
The Witness
DOS19834/5 Infocom
Trinity
DOS19864.1/5 Infocom
Wishbringer
DOS19853.7/5 Infocom
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...
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