Games like Zork

Zork is one of the earliest interactive fiction computer games, with roots drawn from the original genre game, Colossal Cave Adventure. The first version of Zork was written in 1977–1979 using the MDL programming language on a DEC PDP-10 computer.

96%Game Brain Score

story, music

character development, grinding

96% User Score Based on 114 reviews

Sable's Grimoire is a visual novel / dating sim featuring monster girls in a magic academy setting. Play as Sable, an aspiring magic researcher, as he get sucked into the daily lives and troubles of his demi-human classmates.

95%Game Brain Score

graphics, story

grinding, gameplay

95% User Score Based on 103 reviews

Once you step through the door to Zork, you leave the world of arcade games and trite fantasies behind and enter the dimension of your imagination.

85%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

replayability, character development

85% User Score Based on 137 reviews

Hostil is an emotional interactive tale about a young astronaut who has crashed on a extremely dangerous planet. No one will come to rescue him and his only hope is to move forward.

ROPOKO is an interactive fiction-style adventure game. Players become the robot Ropoko and must escape from a maze-like laboratory with the help of "Doctor." Learn words through conversations and use the vocabulary you've acquired to solve various puzzles! The Steam version is an enhanced adaptation of the original MZ-700 version, improving playability with features like word selectio…

50 Years of Text Games (2023) told the story of the first half century of interactive fiction in a whirlwind tour of fifty text-based computer games, one for each year between 1971 and 2020. Now available as a standalone volume is this companion book, stuffed with extra chapters and bonus materials that couldn't fit in the main volume. Inside you'll find twelve new chapters and 85 pages covering …

Imperium is a 2D Lo-fi, Sci-fi Puzzle Adventure game set in a dystopian future where you take on the role of BS-23, a former scientist of the condemned scientific organisation known as The Betterment. Imprisoned due to their involvement with the original Betterment, BS-23 is sent out onto dangerous missions alone and unarmed with the objective to obtain vital data at the behest of the Galactic Cou…

The "first graphic adventure" (according to itself), and the game that launched Sierra On-Line, with over 80,000 units sold worldwide, is now available for the Pico-8. Do **YOU** have what it takes to find the killer's treasure and become "a guru wizard?" This conversion of the Apple 2 classic brings the full game, all text, graphics, ***and bugs***,  to your favorite virtual console. The entire …

Enchanter is a 1983 interactive fiction computer game written by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling and published by Infocom. It belongs to the fantasy genre and was the first fantasy game published by Infocom after the Zork trilogy (it was originally intended to be Zork IV). The game had a parser that understood over 700 words, making it the most advanced interactive fiction game of its time. It was Inf…

Your father has been killed in a assassination attack on your life, trying to stay alive and avenge your father the best way you can you make life making the decisions that most people wouldn't even dream of making. Man or Woman doesn't matter, because in this computer game YOU ARE THE CHARACTER! In this game isn't only fueled by your decisions but also by your pure imagination and my creative sto…