The year is 2186. Humanity has established colonies on the moon, Mars, and several of the larger asteroids. Earth's sky is dotted with space habitats, and the spaceways are always busy. As usual, there is the urgent need for energy to power this...

Deadline is a text adventure in which the player is a detective called in to investigate what seems like a simple drug overdose. The family lawyer thinks it was really a murder. You have 12 game hours to find the killer or else someone is going to...

A collection of text adventure games made before the year 2000, they all run in the Zip Infinity app, which is included. This text based games collection consists of: Advent (the first adventure game ever) Curses Delusions For a...

Suspended is Infocom's most unique text game. Using a small plastic board and six markers, the player keeps track of six uniquely designed robots which check on damage to a complex's machinery and report back what they perceive as the...

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Cutthroats casts players in this full-text adventure as a deep-sea diver, hired by a band of toughs to locate shipwreck treasure. The game is very closed-ended, requiring almost Pavlovian obedience. Multiple endings. Unknown Author. (December...

The Witness is a full-text adventure casts the player as a detective assigned to get to the bottom of a death threat. When the victim is killed, you have only one night to find the real guilty party. Unknown Author. (December 1985)....

An adventure game in which players search through Transylvania for a kidnapped princess. The mouse is used to select a direction, and the resulting location is shown on the screen. Players then type responses to displayed questions in order to...

The Peter Pan In this story painting adventure you play as Peter Pan, the leader of boys and girls, against Captain Hook, the leader of pirates. You stole the treasure map from Hook, then Hook stole all the boys and girls from your village...

Junior sleuths, grab a Shirley Temple — shaken, not stirred — and help secret agent Spy Fox stop the nefarious Napoleon LeRoach from destroying the world. This well-conceived story keeps players ages 5 to 10 engaged in the plot, and has...

Flowers of Crystal is an educational game from the author of Granny's Garden. The game was designed to provide for creative activities in the classroom and is built around puzzle-solving. It consists of three parts: an introductory...

In this age of first-person death matches and frag fests, it’s hard to imagine a gaming company having the cojones to come out with an exploratory adventure title — especially one In which you can never die no matter how hard you try....