Transylvania
1982Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +9
A game with a text interface and optional graphics. Players must locate the missing Princess Sabrina while surviving the hostile land.
4 listsOften paired
Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
281 games like Anchorhead · 1974 – 2013
Voodoo Castle
1980Adventure International · Acorn Electron, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +13
You are Count Cristo and a curse has been put on you. Your have to lift the curse in this text adventure using two word commands.
67 rating5 listsOften paired
Earthly Delights
1983Apple II, MS-DOS, macOS
A text adventure in which the player discovers on a world-wide journey who has stolen the peculiar inheritance, the painting Parrish's 'Earthly Delights', that was left by the recently died uncle.
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Ballyhoo
1985Infocom · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +14
Ballyhoo is an interactive fiction computer game designed by Jeff O'Neill and published by Infocom in 1985. It was released for ten different 8 and 16-bit platforms, including MS-DOS, Atari ST, and Commodore 64. It is Infocom's nineteenth g
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Bureaucracy
1987Infocom · Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST +5
Bureaucracy is an interactive fiction computer game released by Infocom in 1987, scripted by popular comic science fiction author Douglas Adams. The player is challenged to confront a long and complicated series of bureaucratic hurdles resu
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Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1
The Hound of Shadow is an interactive fiction illustrated text adventure game created by Eldritch Games and published by Electronic Arts in 1989.
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Adventureland
1978Acorn Electron, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +14
A text based Adventure Game for the TRS-80, later enhanced with visual scenes in various ports. Only allowed 2-Word input and was largely based on Colossal Cave Adventure.
60 rating1 list
Apple II, Atari 8-bit, MS-DOS
A text based adventure game released in 1981 and has similar content to "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards" developed by Al Lowe which is based on "Softporn Adventure". It was ported to PC in 1991 and has also been includ
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Strange Odyssey
1981Adventure International · Acorn Electron, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +14
While orbiting an asteroid your space ship malfunctions. In this text adventure you have to find five alien artefacts - and a way home.
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Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System +3
The Price of Magik is the sequel to the previous game; Myglar the Magician. The guardian of the Crystal has become insane and is draining its energy for his own use; he must be defeated before it is exhausted.
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Adventureland
1978Scott Adams · Acorn Electron, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +13
A text based Adventure Game for the TRS-80, later enhanced with visual scenes in various ports. Only allowed 2-Word input and was largely based on Colossal Cave Adventure.
60 rating8 lists
Jinxter
1987Magnetic Scrolls · Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Amstrad CPC +10
Just when a man thinks his luck is running out, things start getting even worse. He gets run over by a bus. Sprayed with cheese sandwich by a supernatural being. Smashed against a tunnel by a speeding train. He gets incinerated, widdled on,
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Curses
1993Graham Nelson · Windows, Z-machine, macOS
In the course of searching the attic for an old tourist map of Paris, Victor Meldrew steps into a surreal adventure to uncover a centuries-old curse that has been placed on his family.
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Adventure Soft · Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, BBC Microcomputer System +3
Masters of the Universe: Super Adventure, also known as Masters of the Universe in Terraquake, is an interactive fiction video game developed by Adventure Soft and published by U.S. Gold in 1986. The game is part of the Masters of the Unive
2 lists
Erik the Viking
1984Level 9 Computing · Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, BBC Microcomputer System +3
Loosely based on the 1983 children's novel of the same name by Terry Jones.
2 lists
HAUNT
1979PDP-10, DECSYSTEM-20
Haunt is a text adventure game created by John E. Laird while he was a student at Carnegie Mellon University. The purpose of the game is to find treasure in a haunted house and then escape the house.
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Waxworks
1983Brian Howarth · Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro +9
You fell asleep in the waxworks at a fair and now you have to find your way out.
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Sirius Software · Apple II, FM-7, NEC PC-8800 series +3
A graphical text-adventure in which the player has to escape from the mid-African nation of Rungistan.
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Jigsaw
1995Graham Nelson · Windows, Z-machine, macOS
New Year’s Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland… Not exactly your ideal party (especially as that
1 list19 h main story
Magnetic Scrolls · Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST +1
This was a text adventure made by Magnetic Scrolls published in 1990
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Kentilla
1984Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Medieval Text Adventure game with graphics.
2 lists
Sherlock
1984Krome Studios Melbourne · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Step into the shoes of the Master Detective, and abuse Watson in whatever way you see fit in this text adventure
2 lists
Apple II, Commodore PET, TRS-80 +1
Inspired by Star Wars this is a text-adventure game written by Lance Micklus.
1 list
Apple II
Educational adventure in which the player travels through the human body in minitaturized form.
1 list
Acorn Electron, BBC Microcomputer System
Castle of Riddles is a text-adventure game, first released for the BBC Micro in 1982. It was primarily written and designed by Peter Killworth.
1 list
Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Commodore 16 +3
A text-adventure written by John Rausch and the first installment of the Other Venture series published by Adventure International.
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Peter Killworth · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +2
Countdown to Doom is a text-adventure, designed and written by Peter Killworth, originally for the BBC Micro. It is the first in Killworth's "Doom" trilogy.
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Digital Fantasia · Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System +5
In order for Andromeda to become your, Perseus', wife, you have have to slay the hideous Medusa.
2 lists
Rigel's Revenge
1987Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Rigel's Revenge is a text adventure published in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum home computers by Mastertronic on their "Bulldog" label. It was written by British studio Smart Egg Software using a heavily modified v
2 lists
Terrormolinos
1985Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro +4
Take your family on a holiday vacation they will never forget.
4 lists
Delta 4 · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
A text adventure based on the Terry Pratchett novel of the same name.
2 lists
Violet
2008Browser, Linux, Windows +1
Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. A piece of interactive fiction written by Jeremy Freese.
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Amazon
1984Michael Crichton · Apple II, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +5
The NSRT (National Satellite Resource Technology) has sent a team to the Amazon rainforest but there has been no communications with the team for some time. It's now your job to go and find out what happened to them.
2 lists
Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +4
A text adeventure written by Tim Wilson and published by Sirius Software for various 8-bit platforms.
1 list
Caves of Olympus
1982Apple II
Text adventure with some graphics. You are stranded on a strange planet have to find a way back home.
1 list
Dunnet
1983Linux, macOS
There is a game that is hidden inside of every modern Apple Computer as well as most Linux machines. A classic text based adventure in the spirit of Colossal Cave and Zork.
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Knight Orc
1987Level 9 Computing · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +10
Knight Orc is a standard text adventure game, with limited graphics on some platforms, by Level 9 released in 1987. It comes with a short novella by Peter McBride ("The Sign of the Orc") explaining the background to the story. After a ni
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Return to Eden
1984Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST +7
The second game in Level 9's science fiction trilogy dealing with the colonisation of the planet Eden.
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Seabase Delta
1986Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Seabase Delta is a text adventure game by Firebird released in 1986 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum home computers. It is the sequel to Subsunk.
2 lists
Subsunk
1985Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
As reporter Ed Lines, you are on board HMS Sea Lion when it is attacked and sunk. Now you must send the Subsunk message..
2 lists
Acorn Electron, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore 16 +3
You are visiting the Twin KIngdom Valley in order to find (and steal) some treasure.
3 lists
Legacy Computer, MS-DOS
An interactive fiction game / interactive fiction creation utility pre-dating the release of Colossal Cave Adventure.
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Gateway
1992Legend Entertainment · MS-DOS, Windows
Gateway is a 1992 interactive fiction video game released by Legend Entertainment, and written by Glen Dahlgren and Mike Verdu. It is based on Frederik Pohl's Heechee universe.
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Gargoyle Games · ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
Axil the Able stood in three inches of stagnant water and surveyed one of the most dismal dungeons he had ever been thrown into... 30 seconds earlier, he was sitting in front of the ox-roast in that famed haunt of the Occult. The Golden Thu
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Nintendo console exclusive
EA Mobile · Android, Legacy Mobile Device, Nintendo DS +1
Experience high school drama at Centerscore High in this text-based game.
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +4
You are Ulysses and your king has given you the task of finding the legendary Golden Fleece and bring it back to him. In order to accomplish your king's wishes you travel through vast lands and meet many people and creatures from ancient Gr
54 rating3 lists
Device 6
2013Simogo · iOS
Device 6 plays with the conventions of games and literature, entwines story with geography and blends puzzle and novella, to draw players into an intriguing mystery of technology and neuroscience.
89 rating1 list