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..

4553

games

platforms

Alternate names: IF, Text adventure

CPC 1986

SWTC 2019-04-12

SPC 1990

VIC 1981

OCS 1987

IIE 1983

BBC 1984

The Tenement of the Damned: Eamon Adventure #255

IIE 1985

The Lone Ranger

C64 198?

Savage Island Part 1

TRS 1981

Super Gran: The Adventure

C64 1985

Labyrinths of La Coshe

BBC 1982

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

Parent group

Adventure

Related group

Game genre
MUD

Games by year

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		628
Apple II E		493
C64		451
MS-DOS		435
Amstrad CPC		281
Linux		201
BBC		191
Tandy Coco		190
Atari 400/800		168
Mac OS Classic		148
Atari ST		122
TRS-80		108
Amiga		108
NEC PC9801		89
Dragon32		68
C16/Plus4		67
Electron		63
Amstrad PCW		56
Commodore PET		45
MSX		45
custom		39
VIC-20		38
NEC PC8801		37
Oric		37
MICRO 7 - FM7		35
BeOS		33
C128		31
Coleco Adam		25
TI99		24
Ohio Scientific		22

Most common companies

Infocom	347
Adventure International	187
Level 9 Computing	120
Rainbird	81
Zenobi Software	71
Starcraft	69
NEUC	69
SoftSide	55
Channel 8 Software	54
Melbourne House	43
Topologika	42
CRL	35
Choice of Games	35
Falsoft	27
Activision	27