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..
2922
games
80platforms
Alternate names: IF, Text adventure

SPC 1990

SPC 1988

9801 1991-11

DOS 1985

IIE 1984

DOS 1985

C64 1984

S128 1989

SPC 1987

MAC 1986

W31 1992

MAC 1986
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.
Parent group
AdventureRelated group
Game genreMUD
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Platforms
ZX Spectrum | ![]() | 449 | |
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MS-DOS | ![]() | 402 | |
C64 | ![]() | 261 | |
Linux | ![]() | 186 | |
Apple II E | ![]() | 182 | |
Amstrad CPC | ![]() | 169 | |
Mac OS Classic | ![]() | 150 | |
Tandy Coco | ![]() | 118 | |
Atari ST | ![]() | 102 | |
Amiga | ![]() | 89 | |
BBC | ![]() | 81 | |
Atari 400/800 | ![]() | 66 | |
Amstrad PCW | ![]() | 47 | |
TRS-80 | ![]() | 45 | |
NEC PC9801 | ![]() | 42 | |
custom | ![]() | 36 | |
Commodore PET | ![]() | 36 | |
BeOS | ![]() | 33 | |
C128 | ![]() | 33 | |
C16/Plus4 | ![]() | 31 | |
Coleco Adam | ![]() | 25 | |
ZX Spectrum 128 | ![]() | 23 | |
Electron | ![]() | 23 | |
MSX | ![]() | 22 | |
Ohio Scientific | ![]() | 18 | |
Oric | ![]() | 15 | |
Memotech MTX | ![]() | 15 | |
NEC PC8801 | ![]() | 14 | |
Apple IIGS | ![]() | 13 | |
MICRO 7 - FM7 | ![]() | 13 |