Interactive fiction

Game genre theme

A type of adventure game where the game world and player input is described using text. Such as "You are in a hallway. There is a key on the floor", ">get key", ">use silver key on door", ">turn valve", ">say hello", etc..

4504
games
95
platforms

Alternate names: IF, Text adventure

Note that despite the name, this is a very specific form of interactive fiction, not something that should be taken literally.
Implied:
* Word input

Related:
* MUD - replicates the gameplay in MMO environment

Popular tags

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Parent group

Adventure

Related group

Game genre
MUD

Games by year

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The first Interactive fiction video game was released on December 3, 1971.

Infocom, Adventure International and Level 9 Computing published most of these games.

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Platforms

ZX Spectrum 627
Apple II E 493
MS-DOS 435
C64 433
Amstrad CPC 280
Linux 201
Tandy Coco 189
BBC 180
Atari 400/800 168
Mac OS Classic 148
Atari ST 122
TRS-80 109
Amiga 108
NEC PC9801 88
C16/Plus4 67
Electron 62
Dragon32 61
Amstrad PCW 55
MSX 45
Commodore PET 44
custom 39
NEC PC8801 37
Oric 37
VIC-20 35
MICRO 7 - FM7 35
BeOS 33
C128 31
Coleco Adam 25
TI99 24
Ohio Scientific 22