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PC Booter (1986), Commodore 64 (1987) and Apple II (1986) The protagonist wakes up in a hotel room in midtown Manhattan with no clothes and no money, and what is... |
Windows (1998), Amiga (1998), DOS (1998) and Browser (2003) Anchorhead is a horror-themed interactive fiction game set in a Lovecraftian dilapidated fishing village. After a gruesome death ends the... |
iPad (2012), Android (2012), Browser (2012) and iPhone (2012) A handy Star Trek clone, this game puts the player in the futuristic unitard of the Captain of an enormous... |
Browser (2012) A shepherd somewhere in the pastoral hills of Greece, at the foot of fictitious Mount Lycidas, rounds up his flock... |
BBC Micro (1986) Events in the rural village of Ambridge have enthralled BBC Radio 4 listeners since 1950. The computer game re-creation casts... |
Windows (2008) A minimalistic exercise with low aspirations, this simple text adventure casts the player as a man with a mission: to... |
Browser (2011) Drawing the game's name from a poster of text adventure title mash-ups on the wall of the Interactive Fiction hospitality... |
Browser (1995) This early (1967!) appearance of hypertext presents an interactive narrative primarily concerned with the experiences of a small group of... |
Windows (2002) At Wit's End is a freeware text adventure / interactive fiction game. It was developed using the T.A.D.S., the Text... |
Android (2013), iPad (2013) and iPhone (2013) This is a Spanish-language conversion for mobile devices of Scott Adams' 1978 text game Pirate Adventure. In keeping with its... |
Windows (1997) Babel is a text adventure / interactive fiction game. It was developed using the T.A.D.S., the Text Adventure Development System,... |
DOS (1998), Linux (1998) and Windows (1998) What happens when a computer has no programming? What if there is nothing stopping it from using its systems to... |
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DOS (1993) In an adaptation certainly not endorsed by PBS, this game puts the player in the shoes of a sociopathic Beavis... |
Commodore 64 (1985) and ZX Spectrum (1985) Made with a program called The Quill, a text-adventure creation program, this game's story is based on a number of... |
TRS-80 CoCo (1982) and TRS-80 (1982) What other game lets you interact with Houdini, Picasso, and Merlin, and even get them to talk to each other?... |
ZX Spectrum (1988) In this notably quirky cult classic you take the role of The Balrog, a large gentleman just trying to enjoy... |
Browser (2011) Released some 23 years after the long-running series's prior game for the ZX Spectrum, this hypertext story-game sees the player,... |
iPhone (2010) and ZX Spectrum (1989) An unlicensed Tolkien text adventure, this game sees players adventuring in the ancient Dwarvish realm of Belegost in search of... |
Atari ST (1988), DOS (1988) and TRS-80 (1983) Early (1983) TRS-80 BASIC text adventure game, the middle in a forgotten trilogy (sandwiched between "Project Triad" and "Codename Intrepid"),... |
DOS (1986) In this mid-'80s text adventure, the player finds themselves a passenger on the doomed Titanic and must find some way... |
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Browser (2011) A sequel of sorts to 2001's Vicious Cycles, this game also casts the player as an agent, implanted into the... |
ZX Spectrum (1982), Commodore 64 (1985) and ZX81 (1982) Darkness has descended on the kingdom of Beroth. The evil Tobias has summoned the Black Crystal in an attempt to... |