Games like The Black Tower
Looking for games like The Black Tower? Here are top action recommendations with a fantasy focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with The Alchemist, The 13th Quest or Uncle Mortimer's Secret.
1 100%Game Brain Score100% User Score 79 reviewsEzekiel Throgmeister, commonly referred to by the villagers as The Alchemist, has left you in charge of his currently-running experiment while he attends to other pressing business. Can you succeed in completing his task? The Alchemist is a large text-only interactive fiction fantasy game, very much in the 'old-school' style. It was written from the ground up for the PC using qBasic64, and has a c…
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2 The 13th Quest (it's the 13th IF game I've written) is a text-only interactive fiction fantasy game, very much in retro style. It was written from the ground up for the PC using qB64, and has a comprehensive and powerful parser. Included in the game are fairly detailed HELP instructions, and I have also added comprehensive hints, both implicit and explicit, which can be accessed using the command…
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3 View GameUncle Mortimer appears to have angered entities who resent his research into things with which we mortals shouldn't concern ourselves. Can you travel through time to discover how to release him from a potential thousand years of incarceration? Uncle Mortimer's Secret is a large text-only interactive fiction fantasy game involving time travel. It was written from the ground up for the PC using qB…
View Game4 When recently you helped your friend Ezekiel Throgmeister little did you realise what that might lead to. Now his colleague Jedediah Strangeblossom wants to involve you in a quest to restore Excalibur to its original owner. Return of The Sword is a text-only interactive fiction fantasy game, very much in the 'old-school' style. It was written from the ground up for the PC using qBasic64, and has …
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5 View GameYou've spent a lifetime travelling and solving problems for others, but on this occasion have you bitten off a little bit more than you can chew? Where will you find that elusive orb? Have Orb, Will Travel is a text-only interactive fiction fantasy game, very much in the 'old-school' style. It was written from the ground up for the PC using qBasic64, and has a comprehensive and powerful parser. I…
View Game6 Somewhere, Somewhen is a large text-only interactive fiction fantasy game (with some humour) written from the ground up for the PC using qBasic64. It is uploaded as a zip file, and all contents of this file (with the exception of Read Me.txt) must be present in the game folder for the game to run. It can be run from Windows or in a DOS window. After unzipping, double click on the file "Somewhere…
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7 89%Game Brain Scoreatmosphere, graphicsstory, gameplay93% User Score 46 reviewsAlchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
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8 69%Game Brain Scorehumor, storygraphics, gameplay69% User Score 75 reviewsLeisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places) is the second game in Al Lowe's Leisure Suit Larry series. Continuing the plot of the previous game, the swinging single Larry Laffer has finally found his true love and is happily living with her. Right? Wrong!.. Because Larry is mercilessly thrown out by his great love and is left all alone, penniless, and womanless, in Los Angel…
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9 100%Game Brain Scorehumor, atmospherestory, graphics100% User Score 62 reviewsThaumistry: In Charm's Way is an all-new comedy text adventure from award-winning Infocom and Legend Entertainment author Bob Bates.
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10 74%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, music74% User Score 78 reviewsThe year is 2033. Your name is Tex Murphy, Private Investigator in San Francisco. You've been hired by the beautiful daughter of a university professor to uncover the facts about his death. As you begin your investigation you uncover the deaths of several prominent members of the scientific community. Are these deaths coincidental or is there something more sinister going on? And which characters…
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