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..

4382
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

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

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

Parent group

Adventure

Related group

Game genre
MUD

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Platforms

ZX Spectrum 581
Apple II E 493
MS-DOS 434
C64 425
Amstrad CPC 275
Linux 202
Tandy Coco 186
BBC 172
Atari 400/800 164
Mac OS Classic 148
Atari ST 121
TRS-80 104
Amiga 99
NEC PC9801 67
C16/Plus4 65
Electron 61
Amstrad PCW 55
Commodore PET 44
MSX 43
Dragon32 43
custom 40
Oric 36
NEC PC8801 35
BeOS 33
VIC-20 33
MICRO 7 - FM7 31
C128 31
Coleco Adam 25
ZX Spectrum 128 24
TI99 23

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