Interactive fiction
Game genre theme
A type of adventure game where player types in sentences or semi-meaningful word strings to perform actions, such as "put log in fire", "get key from purse", "use silver key on door", "turn valve", "say hello", and so forth.
2077
games
68platforms
Alternate names: IF, Text adventure
The first video game about Interactive fiction was released in 1975.
Infocom, Level 9 Computing and Rainbird 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.
Parent group
AdventureRelated sites
Platforms
| MS-DOS |  | 327 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZX Spectrum | | 260 | |
| C64 | | 190 | |
| Linux | | 169 | |
| Mac OS Classic | | 146 | |
| Tandy Coco | | 114 | |
| Amstrad CPC | | 101 | |
| Apple II E | | 83 | |
| Atari ST | | 83 | |
| Amiga | | 73 | |
| Atari 400/800 | | 47 | |
| TRS-80 | | 37 | |
| custom | | 33 | |
| BeOS | | 33 | |
| BBC | | 32 | |
| Coleco Adam | | 24 | |
| ZX Spectrum 128 | | 24 | |
| C16/Plus4 | | 22 | |
| C128 | | 21 | |
| Electron | | 19 | |
| Ohio Scientific | | 18 | |
| Memotech MTX | | 16 | |
| MSX | | 14 | |
| Amstrad PCW | | 13 | |
| Tatung Einstein | | 12 | |
| VIC-20 | | 11 | |
| Apple IIGS | | 10 | |
| NEC PC8801 | | 9 | |
| TI99 | | 9 | |
| MICRO 7 - FM7 | | 8 |