The 10 best text-based adventure games — back to the gaming roots

Text-based adventure games are probably the dinosaurs of PC gaming at this point. Not only is it a relatively dead genre, but it is definitely something situated within a certain time and place in video game history. This was before flashy graphics and huge graphical interfaces. Gamers still wanted stories — the more involved the better — but the only real way to get that was through a text-based adventure game which, if you do not like reading, is a pretty forbidding prospect for some gamers.

For one, they are not always intuitive. You interact with the word through text commands of varying complexity in order to achieve in-game end results. The variety and creativity with which developers imbued these outcomes is part of the reason why gamers still love this genre so much to this day. But it is also this variety and multiplicity that makes them sort of opaque and tough. Back in the day you absolutely had to have a guide for some of these if you were not super familiar with the conventions of the genre. Now, with the Internet and message boards everywhere, it is not so hard.

Gamers now appreciate these titles for their quirky ability to convey the creators’ collected will and vision in a purely text format. Some of these franchises would later go on to spawn graphical titles (such as the OG Zork series), but, largely, the spirit of text-based adventures lives on in the point-and-click games which are themselves relics of a bygone era at this point.

This article was kind of tough for me to write for you all, because I played many of these games eons ago. Even so, you know that I know what is quality and these classic titles are definitely the best I have ever encountered. Here are the 10 best text-based adventure games…

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