Interactive Fiction

Description

Gameplay is language-based in nature. All interaction with the player, both input and feedback, is done through the input and output of pure text. Input mimics natural language using verb-noun (action-item) commands (Abbreviations also qualify, because they abbreviate a verb-noun construct, like "w" for "go west" or "i" for "list inventory"). Output is rendered in full, natural-language, grammatically-correct sentences.

Sometimes referred to as "text-adventure" or "Infocom" games (after the company that made them famous).
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A Mind Forever Voyaging DOS Front Cover

DOS (1985), Atari ST (1985), Apple II (1985), Amiga (1986), Commodore 128 (1985) and Macintosh (1985)

The year is 2031 and the world is near the brink of economic collapse. To avoid this, the president comes...

Amnesia PC Booter Front Cover

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...

Anchorhead Amiga Front Cover

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...

Apex Patrol iPad Front Cover

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...

Arcadia Browser Front Cover

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...

A Scurvy of Wonders Browser Front Cover

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...

Aventura Pirata Android Front Cover

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,...

BAD_MACHINE DOS Front Cover

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...

Ballyhoo DOS Front Cover

DOS (1986), Atari ST (1986), Commodore 64 (1986), Apple II (1986), Amiga (1986), Amstrad CPC (1986), Atari 8-bit (1986), Macintosh (1986), TRS-80 CoCo (1986) and TRS-80 (1986)

Ballyhoo is a mystery text adventure in which you play a disillusioned circus goer who decides to help find the...

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...

Bedlam TRS-80 CoCo Front Cover

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,...

Belegost iPhone Front Cover

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...

Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor DOS Front Cover

DOS (1987), Atari ST (1987), Apple II (1987), Amiga (1987), Commodore 128 (1987), Macintosh (1987) and Apple IIgs (1988)

Aimlessly wandering through the Southlands of Quendor, the hero of the game encounters the Implementors, powerful beings who warn him...

Browser (2011)

A sequel of sorts to 2001's Vicious Cycles, this game also casts the player as an agent, implanted into the...

Black Crystal ZX Spectrum Front Cover

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...

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