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

platforms

Alternate names: IF, Text adventure

Deek's Deeds

SPC 1990

Cricket-Crazy

SPC 1988

Abunai Bunkasai

9801 1991-11

Haunted Mission Adventure

DOS 1985

Alesia

IIE 1984

Ghost Town

DOS 1985

Pirate Adventure

C64 1984

Space Detective II: Home Run

S128 1989

Jack the Ripper

SPC 1987

Midnight Snack

MAC 1986

The Madness of Roland

W31 1992

Wizard's Warehouse

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.

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		449
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