

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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Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
215 games like Trek73 · 1977 – 2017


Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
A text adventure with a story based on several Beatles song lyrics.
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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
66 rating2 lists2 h main story


Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, BBC Microcomputer System +3
The Goal is to achieve Hampstead, not reach it.
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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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Pete Cooke · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
You try to flee from a dreary suburbian city.
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Atari ST, Atari ST/STE, MS-DOS +1
Orbiter is a free spaceflight simulator for the PC.
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Windows
A sequel to and remake of the original Starshatter, The Gathering Storm is a space combat game from developer Destroyer Studios.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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Omnitrend Software · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, MS-DOS
A highly comprehensive and complex space exploration game. You can chose between several career paths like trading, passenger transport, ore mining, smuggling, cargo transport and piracy. Depending on your career choice you have to outfit
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PlayStation exclusive
PS2
Your mission is to save helpless people from crime and disaster in a city in turmoil. Three action packed game modes let you pilot one of five rescue choppers through a modern city in crisis, performing daring roof top rescues, extinguishin
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Windows
Mass Destruction! Use tactical nuclear weapons to level entire city regions. The most realistic weather environments ever created. Changing weather effects including: rain, snow, hail, and wind. Extreme temperatures affect flight performanc
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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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Derek Smart · Windows
Universal Combat (sometimes abbreviated to UC) is the second video game series by the developer 3000AD and is the successor of the Battlecruiser series of games.
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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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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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Razorworks · Windows, macOS
Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs Hokum is an attack helicopter simulation game. The game was a follow up to Enemy Engaged: Apache vs Havoc, and interconnectable with it. It was developed by Razorworks. Enemy Engaged 2 is its sequel.
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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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Nintendo exclusive
Taito · Nintendo DS
Freedom Wings, known in Japan as Ore no Sentouki (オレのせんとうき?), is a flight simulator developed by Taito and published by Natsume in the US and Zoo Digital Publishing in Europe. The game combined elements of flight simulators and RPGs as play
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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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Xbox Game Studios · Windows
Microsoft Flight is an aviation game from Microsoft Studios created as a successor to the discontinued Microsoft Flight Simulator series. The game is offered "free-to-play"; charging gamers for downloading extra content, aircraft or scenery
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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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Centropolis Entertainment · Windows
The 10th Planet is a cancelled game from Bethesda Softworks. It would have been a sci-fy space combat game, slatted for release in 1997. Playstation and Sega Saturn version were also planned.
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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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PlayStation exclusive
Midway Studios – Newcastle · PlayStation
Kayne, the sole survivor of the Wolf Squadron, is tasked with saving the Vorn which is being attacked from the nefarious Kotan-Kal. For offering to help the Vorn out, Kayne is given his choice of the Vorn's most advanced spacecraft and weap
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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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Looking Glass Studios · Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Commodore 64 +5
This early flight sim prominently features the voice and likeness of record-setting pilot Chuck Yeager. He offers helpful advice after the player crashes including "You really bought the farm on that one!"
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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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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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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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Windows
Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scaven
58 rating1 list2.5 h main story


MicroProse · Amiga, Atari ST/STE, Commodore 64 +3
Rule the night! Take the pride of American Stealth technology and take on the best the Warsaw pact technology can offer! Dodge between radars, sneak under enemy fighters, and take out your primary objectives and secondary objectives with yo
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