Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
239 games like Kayleth · 1978 – 2012
Apple II, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +2
Somewhere in Hong Kong, two martial artists face each other in a vast courtyard. The challenger is a stout man in brown skin. The ground has been tainted with blood. However, his crescent blade hasn't touched his opponent yet. It was a one-
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +3
A science fiction text adventure game in which an artificial intelligence is electronically merged with your body as the result of a scientific experiment. Your mission is to find a source of energy to keep you alive. The game uses a text p
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Apple II, FM-7, PC-8800 Series +1
In order to save Earth's future you are given a time machine enabling you to travel into several time periods of the distant past where you meet famous people like Robin Hood, Christopher Columbos or Cleopatra who will help you to change Ea
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Apple II, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +6
The time is not too long from now. The place is New York City. Yet it is a setting few of us would ever recognize. For this is a world where simply owning a book is dangerously illegal. Where Firemen come not to save houses, but to burn th
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Infocom · Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST +5
A Mind Forever Voyaging (AMFV) is a 1985 interactive fiction game, intended as a polemical critique of Ronald Reagan's politics.
78 rating5 listsOften paired
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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Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +2
An adventure game based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
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Westwood Studios · MS-DOS
Circuit's Edge is a computer game developed by Westwood Associates and released by Infocom in 1989. It is based on George Alec Effinger's 1987 novel When Gravity Fails. The game is a hybrid interactive fiction/role-playing game; it contains
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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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Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +5
Mindfighter is a text adventure game developed by British studio Abstract Concepts and published by Activision in 1988 for the Amiga, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and the ZX Spectrum computers.
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David Mullich · Apple II
Text-based adventure game inspired by the cult classic British television show about a former spy who is abducted and sent to a resort-themed "prison" where his captors attempt to get him to reveal why he resigned from his classified job.
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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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Legend 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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Infocom · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +20
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a classic Interactive Fiction game. Though divergent from the source material, the main characters, locations, and concepts are here. Unlike the book, death can come quickly if Arthur fails to observe
69 rating1 list
Legend Entertainment · MS-DOS, Windows
Timequest is an interactive fiction game for MS-DOS in which players use time travel to venture into the past and correct temporal disruptions.
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Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST/STE +3
Portal was an ambitious attempt to tell a story with the depth of a novel and the interactivity of a game, sitting somewhere between interactive fiction and simulation of a computer system.
78 rating1 list
Simon & Schuster · Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +2
You replay the recovery of the USS Heinlein, which was under the command of Captain Sulu when it got lost under suspicious circumstances in the 145 Trianguli area while on a classified mission. The main reason for simulating the incident i
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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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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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Legend · ZX Spectrum
The Great Space Race is a combination role-playing game and science-fiction space combat game. The basic premise of the game is that a new super-drink called Natof has been discovered. Natof has three key properties, which are to get the pe
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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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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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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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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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Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro +4
Take your family on a holiday vacation they will never forget.
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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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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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Interplay Entertainment · Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS +3
Based on the cyberpunk novel by William Gibson. In a grimy future, you play Case, a cyberspace cowboy who finds himself broke in Chiba City. Find yourself a laptop and the right software for it so you can hack into databases around the city
70 rating3 lists
Veronika Megler · Amstrad CPC, Apple II, BBC Microcomputer System +6
A ground breaking text-adventure video game based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
76 rating6 lists
Alternative Software · Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Star Wreck is a text adventure game written in 1987 by Charles A. Sharp. It was published by Alternative Software for the Spectrum 48k, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64. The game takes place in a parody of the Star Trek universe and the player
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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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Acorn 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
Amiga, Atari ST/STE, MS-DOS
Hard Nova is a sci-fi role-playing game with space exploration, spaceship customization and combat, and trading elements, somewhat similar in concept to Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic. There is no character creation in the game: in the beg
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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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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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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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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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Pete Cooke · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
You try to flee from a dreary suburbian city.
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Brian 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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Apple II
After having reclaimed the High One's lost orb and having become the Lord Lapour in "Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure" you have to face a new meance. The technically more advanced race of the Atlanteans wants to subdue all of the other race
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Windows, macOS
Cyberpunk interactive fiction video game written by the Cabrera Brothers and released on August 31, 2012. It updates the traditional text adventure format by including music, sound effects and limited graphical elements to the game. The gam
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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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Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
You have to rescue four legendary heroes who were put under a spell.
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Medieval Text Adventure game with graphics.
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Penguin Software · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +5
You have to help the strong but not very intelligent Gorn to rid the kingdom of Balema of a dragon.
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Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari 8-bit +4
Set a century after the events of Return to Eden, The Worm in Paradise is the third and concluding game in the Silicon Dreams trilogy.
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Wolfman is a text adventure video game released by CRL in 1988 for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum home computers.
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