Genre

Interactive fiction

The player reads a story and acts in it by typing or choosing commands.

draftAlso: text adventure, text-adventureUpdated 2026-10-22
On this page
  1. Mechanics
  2. History
  3. Timeline
  4. Games
  5. Related

Mechanics

Hit chance · Inventory limit · Light-source timer · Text parser · Treasure score

#History

Timeline

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The genre's games read here, by year of first release

Games

Borrowing from it: A Dark Room 2013.

The catalog lists 101 games in the genre, and 1 more that borrow from it. Those on the most Wikipedias without a page here: AI Dungeon 2019, The Hobbit 1982, A Mind Forever Voyaging 1985, 80 Days 2014, As Dusk Falls 2022, Depression Quest 2014, Deadline 1982, Façade 2005, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1984, Ballyhoo 1985, Bureaucracy 1987, Leather Goddesses of Phobos 1986.