An Easter egg has been found on Google's website, allowing users to engage in a fun text adventure game without leaving their web browser — just access the Javascript developer console. Join the ...

Released in 2004, The Dreamhold is one of the newer games on this list, but it’s a great place to start because it features something old-school text games never bothered with: A tutorial. The ...

Forget clicking endless links in your next deep-dive into bizarre topics in a Wikipedia binge, the new old-school way for navigating that peakless mountain of information is a text adventure game.

In honor of the 2012 Interactive Fiction contest we’ll be featuring text-based games in this week’s Free Game Friday roundup. Not all of this week’s games come from the competition, but they ...

The choice was yours in the opening scenario of Zork, a 1977 text-based adventure game that's one of the most famous examples of the genre. Choices are at the foundation of the text-based games.

Text-based video games were popular even in the early days of computer gaming, with horror being a common genre due to its reliance on imagination. Colossal Cave Adventure, Amnesia, and Cutthroats ...