Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
209 games like Planetfall · 1976 – 2008
Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Windows +1
The purpose of the game is to explore and emerge successfully from the Undiscovered Underground. The player begins only with a low-quality Lantern and plastic imitation sword, a parody of the starting items from Zorks I, II and III. Upon en
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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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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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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.
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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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Namco · NES
Sanma no Meitantei is a murder mystery detective adventure game developed and published by Namco for the Famicom in 1987. In the vein of Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken, the player must visit several locations associated with the murder vic
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Adventure 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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Adventure Soft · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro +4
Kayleth is a first person adventure video game for the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum that was developed and published by Adventure Soft. The game has cyberpunk, sci fi and photo adventure elements.
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Michael 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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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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Magnetic 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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Krome 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
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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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Adventure 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.
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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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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.
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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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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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Magnetic Scrolls · Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST +1
This was a text adventure made by Magnetic Scrolls published in 1990
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William Crowther · Apple II, Commodore 64, PDP-10 +4
Colossal Cave Adventure is a text adventure game, developed originally in 1976, by Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe. The game was expanded upon in 1977, with help from Don Woods, and other programmers created variations on the game an
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Apple II, Commodore PET, TRS-80 +1
Inspired by Star Wars this is a text-adventure game written by Lance Micklus.
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Level 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Medieval Text Adventure game with graphics.
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Level 9 Computing · Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System +3
The second game in Level 9's science fiction trilogy dealing with the colonisation of the planet Eden.
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Amstrad 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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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
Educational adventure in which the player travels through the human body in minitaturized form.
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Michael 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.
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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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Browser, 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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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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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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Apple 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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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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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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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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Scott 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.
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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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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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