

Hampstead
1984Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, BBC Microcomputer System +3
The Goal is to achieve Hampstead, not reach it.
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Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
216 games like Beatle Quest · 1973 – 2017


Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, BBC Microcomputer System +3
The Goal is to achieve Hampstead, not reach it.
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Pete Cooke · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
You try to flee from a dreary suburbian city.
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Aackosoft · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
You have to find a Golden Gauntlet in order to destroy the evil Demonlord Malmor.
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Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum
You have to track down five treasures that were stolen by an evil wizard - you only have until the crowning of the princess takes place.
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Level 9 Computing · Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System +3
Trying to dodge the Bermuda triangle you parachute out of a plane and land on the mysterious Emerald Isle. But now you have to find a way back home...
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Xbox console exclusive
Windows, Xbox Series
Set between the original film and 2049, Blade Runner 2033 takes place after the events of the Black Out and asks: what does a Blade Runner do when there are no Replicants left to hunt?
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Nintendo console exclusive
Android, Switch, Windows +1
Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety in Europe. Bury me, my Love is a Text Messaging Adventure game about Nour, a Syrian migrant trying to find her wa
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ZX Spectrum
Blade the Warrior is a text adventure game written by British author Shaun Watts and published by Cable Software in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum. The fantasy themed game tells of a quest to slay an evil witch. It was Cable's first title to be r
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Legend Entertainment · Linux, MS-DOS, Windows +1
Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All the Girls is a 1990 adventure game. It was the first installment of the Spellcasting series created by Steve Meretzky during his time at Legend Entertainment. All three games in the series tell the story
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Delta 4 · ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
The Boggit: Bored Too is a text adventure game by Delta 4 released in 1986 for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum home computers. The game is a parody of the J. R. R. Tolkien novel The Hobbit and of the earlier game based upon i
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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.
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HP 3000, Windows
Mystery Mansion is a text adventure written in 1978–1981 by Bill Wolpert while at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport, Washington. It originally ran only on the HP HP-1000 minicomputer on the RTE (Real Time Executive) operating sys
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Marcin Borkowski · ZX Spectrum
Puszka Pandory (English: Pandora's Box) is a Polish computer text game created in 1986 by Marcin Borkowski for the ZX Spectrum 48k computer. The game achieved popularity after trading on the Grzybowska Commodity Exchange. According to the
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Softalk · Apple II, Commodore PET
Valley of the Minotaur is an interactive fiction game for the Apple II, Commodore PET, VIC-20, and Commodore 64 home computers. It was published by Softalk magazine under the Zeuss Scientific label in 1983. Inspired by Greek mythology, th
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Apple II
Beagle Bag is a collection of video games for the Apple II family of computers published in 1982 by Beagle Bros. It was released in unlocked and unprotected form and is now in the public domain.
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MS-DOS
Beast is a text-based action game developed for MS-DOS by Dan Baker, Alan Brown, Mark Hamilton, and Derrick Shadel. It was distributed as shareware in 1984.
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ZX Spectrum
Curse of the Seven Faces is an interactive fiction video game published by Classic Computing for the ZX Spectrum in 1984. It was re-released later in 1985 by Imperial Software. The game was included in a compilation titled Assemblage in 198
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Infocom · Apple II, MS-DOS, macOS
Journey: The Quest Begins is an interactive fiction video game designed by Marc Blank, with illustrations by Donald Langosy, and released by Infocom in 1989. Like the majority of Infocom's works, it was released simultaneously for several p
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Incentive Software · ZX Spectrum
Karyssia: Queen of Diamonds is a fantasy-themed, text-based graphic adventure game designed and published by Incentive Software in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum. In Karyssia, the player is cast in a role of an adventurer on a quest to rid the re
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MS-DOS
Muzeum Mrtvol (English: Museum of Corpses) is a 1993 Czech text-based interactive fiction adventure game developed by Vladimír Peníška and Oldřich Křivánek of Computer Experts and published by Vochozka Trading. This genre, known in Czech as
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Infocom · Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS, MSX +4
Zork is a text adventure game first released in 1977 by developers Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. The original developers and others, as the company Infocom, expanded and split t
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Amstrad 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
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Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro +4
Take your family on a holiday vacation they will never forget.
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Dinamic Software · ZX Spectrum
Yenght is the first text-adventure game ever published in Spanish. It is also the first game developed by Dinamic Software, the most important Spanish company in the 1980s.
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Browser
Atlantis is a free open-ended multi-player computer moderated fantasy turn-based strategy game for any number of players. It is played via email. The game world is populated by many races and monsters. Players may attempt to carve out huge
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Apple II
Text adventure with some graphics. You are stranded on a strange planet have to find a way back home.
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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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Graham 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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PDP-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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Level 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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Yahoo Software · Kaypro, CP/M
Ladder is a platform game similar to Nintendo's Donkey Kong written for the CP/M operating system and made to be operated on the early Kaypro line of luggable computers. Ladder was written by Yahoo Software of Los Angeles, California. Along
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Amstrad 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.
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MS-DOS
As you begin a game of Sleuth a murder has just been committed. Your job is to mingle with the house guests and to search the contents of the house until you feel you have solved the crime. Every game of Sleuth is different so you must full
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Amstrad 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..
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Magnetic Scrolls · Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Amstrad CPC +10
The aim of this interactive fiction with graphics is to escape from the land of Kerovnia, where strange occurrences are routine. The Roobikyoub dwarves have been banished from the kingdom, which is not good as they produce high-quality whis
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HP 2100, Linux, MS-DOS +1
Trek73 is a computer game based on the original Star Trek television series. It was created in 1973 by William K. Char, Perry Lee, and Dan Gee. The game simulates battles between space ships of the Star Trek franchise. Through text commands
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Acorn Electron, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore 16 +3
You are visiting the Twin KIngdom Valley in order to find (and steal) some treasure.
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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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Graham 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
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Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
This is a text adventure game in which the player follows the story of "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen.
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Legend · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Valhalla was a text-based (with some light graphics) ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 adventure game published in 1983 by Legend. Set in Asgard and Midgard, the goal was to collect six mythical objects, for which you needed the help of other ch
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Magnetic Scrolls · Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Amstrad CPC +8
Inter-Dimensional Espionage. Inter-Dimensional... because you can "warp" into the body of a living thing in this or any other dimension. Espionage... because there are good guys and bad. And you're a good one... with years under your belt a
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Byron Preiss · Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +3
You have recieved word from a messenger that the Last Dragon has been kidnapped. You hold the scroll in your hand and read that you must travel with a special companion named Hawkwind. Only with him and yourself can you save the Last Dragon
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cross-platform
Eressea is an open-ended multi-player computer moderated fantasy turn-based strategy game world for any number of players. Players interact with the game via email. As of August 2006, the game has over 900 players, and has had weekly turns
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Ian Livingstone · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
You have to solve a series of text adventures set in different periods of time (prehistoric times, ancient Rome, Arthurian Britain, WWII and the Cold War) to find various pieces of a talisman.
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Medieval Text Adventure game with graphics.
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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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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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