Apps Playfic lets you create and share simple text-based games in minutes February 15, 2012 - 9:02 pm In the age of evolving technology, video games are starting to look more and more like movies.

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 ...

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.

In the late 70s, the first real text-based game, Colossal Cave Adventure, was burning up the very limited interconnected networks of ARPANET, which was the precursor to the internet.

Everyone seems to love retro 8-bit video games, but it doesn't get much more retro than a text-based adventure. If you've never tried one before, or ...

Remember Zork? In 1977, a trio of MIT researchers created the first text-based adventure game for a DEC mainframe and eventually ported it to the earliest PCs. I discovered the minimalist game in ...

If you thought Pokemon would be fun as a text adventure game, someone has used ChatGPT-4 to turn Pokemon Emerald into one. As spotted by Polygon, Twitter user Dan Dangond has recently been using ...

Colossal Cave Adventure, the 1976 text-based game from William Crowther, is getting a 3D revival in the form of Colossal Cave, launching on Switch on January 19th, 2023. Developed by ex-Sierra ...