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..

2783

games

platforms

Alternate names: IF, Text adventure

Monmusu Quest! Zenshou ~Makereba Youjo ni

WIN 2011-03-09

Keys of the Kingdom

DOS 1988

The Violator Of Voodoo

SPC 1991

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

C64 1983

MAC 1984

WIN 2015-05-08

DOS 1991

DOS 1991

SPC 1985

Murder in the Marching Band

DOS 1989

Abandoned Farmhouse Adventure

APLI 2012

Amnesia

BBC 1985

The first video game about Interactive fiction was released in 1975.

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

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

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Platforms

ZX Spectrum		437
MS-DOS		398
C64		242
Linux		185
Apple II E		158
Mac OS Classic		149
Amstrad CPC		139
Tandy Coco		117
Atari ST		98
Amiga		87
BBC		74
Atari 400/800		57
Amstrad PCW		44
NEC PC9801		42
TRS-80		41
custom		35
Commodore PET		35
C128		34
BeOS		33
C16/Plus4		26
Coleco Adam		25
ZX Spectrum 128		24
Electron		23
MSX		19
Ohio Scientific		18
Memotech MTX		16
NEC PC8801		15
MICRO 7 - FM7		13
Tatung Einstein		13
Windows		12