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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Games like Microsoft Adventure
1979 · Gordon Letwin · Adventure, Text adventure · Open the game page →
Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
223 games like Microsoft Adventure · 1974 – 2013
Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
You play Trixie Trinian and muist find out why everybody at St. Brides Boarding School thinks she is living in the 1920s and must restore normality.
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Spectral Associates · Dragon 32/64, TRS-80 Color Computer
In the Cretan labyrinth of King Minos beneath Knossos you have to find 16 hidden treasures while evading seven mythical monsters.
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Beyond Zork
1987Infocom · Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS +7
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor is an interactive fiction computer game written by Brian Moriarty and released by Infocom in 1987. It was one of the last games in Infocom's Zork series It signified a notable departure from the standard
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Magnetic Scrolls · Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST +1
This was a text adventure made by Magnetic Scrolls published in 1990
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Magnetic Scrolls · Amiga, Amstrad PCW, Atari ST +5
Myth is set in Ancient Greece, place of myth and legend. Hence the title. You are are Poseidon, the Sea God. You have to journey to the Underworld to get the Dark Helment of Hades.
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Legacy Computer, MS-DOS
An interactive fiction game / interactive fiction creation utility pre-dating the release of Colossal Cave Adventure.
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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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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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Zork Zero
1988Infocom · Amiga, Apple II, MS-DOS +2
You're on the threshold of a whole new experience, for ahead of you is the extraordinary anthology of the Great Underground Empire. Once you step through the door to Zork, you leave the world of arcade games and trite fantasies behind and e
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Ingrid's Back
1988Level 9 Computing · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +9
A text adventure centering around a gnome called Ingrid Bottomlow.
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Ashkeron!
1985Amstrad 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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Emerald Isle
1984Level 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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Tower of Despair
1985Aackosoft · 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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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.
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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.
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Yenght
1984Dinamic 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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Haïku Studios · MS-DOS, Windows, macOS
An Adventure game developed for DOS and Windows in 1996 by the now defunct French Haiku Studios and published by Philips Media. One year later there was a release for the Apple Macintosh.
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Spinnaker Software · Apple II, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +3
An Interactive Fiction game based on the fantasy novel with the same name.
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Kentilla
1984Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Medieval Text Adventure game with graphics.
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Creature Venture
1980Apple II
An adventure game developed by Microcabin in 1982. It is also known as Takara Building Adventure.
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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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AdventureQuest
2002Artix Entertainment · Browser, Windows
AdventureQuest is a fully animated RPG that you can play when you are on your lunchbreak, when the big game servers go down, or even for hours every day! You fight against hordes of monsters and enemies so that you can grow stronger and obt
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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.
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The Hobbit
1982Veronika 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.
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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
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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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
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Circuit's Edge
1990Westwood 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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Dragonworld
1984Byron 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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Krome Studios Melbourne · Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple II +7
The Fellowship of the Ring is an interactive fiction (with graphics) game based on the first volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, describing the efforts of the Hobbits Frodo, Pippin, and Sam and their quest to bring the r
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The Snow Queen
1985Commodore 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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Temple of Terror
1987Adventure Soft · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Temple of Terror is a video game published by Adventure Soft in 1987 for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.
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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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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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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
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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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Nintendo console exclusive
Lucasfilm Games · Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +2
Labyrinth: The Computer Game is a 1986 graphic adventure game developed by Lucasfilm Games and published by Activision. Based on the fantasy film Labyrinth, it tasks the player with navigating a maze while solving puzzles and evading danger
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Delta 4 · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
A text adventure based on the Terry Pratchett novel of the same name.
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Anchorhead
1998Michael S. Gentry · Browser, Linux, Windows +2
Travel to the haunted coastal town of Anchorhead, Massachusetts and uncover the roots of a horrific conspiracy inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Search through musty archives and tomes of esoteric lore; dodge hostile townsfolk; comb
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Artematica · Windows
Condemned to an eternal vegetative state, the very sexy Druuna is waiting for someone to free her from her sick, claustrophobic and dilapidated world, inhabited by people suffering from a terrible virus that transforms them into bloodthirst
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Mystery Mansion
2000HP 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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Beatle Quest
1985Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
A text adventure with a story based on several Beatles song lyrics.
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Hampstead
1984Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, BBC Microcomputer System +3
The Goal is to achieve Hampstead, not reach it.
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ZX Spectrum
A UK only 007 text adventure for the ZX Spectrum.
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PlayStation console exclusive
PlayStation Vita, Windows
Play as Pupuru, a young, ambitious girl on a quest to obtain ingredients for the legendary curry to save her friend’s restaurant. With the help of the moody creature Kuu and the noncommittal Puni, she’ll have to defeat the host of weird, so
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