Deadline is a murder mystery text adventure game, written by Marc Blank and published by Infocom in 1982. It has a simple premise explained clearly on the package: “A locked door. A dead man. And 12 hours to solve the murder.” You…
The Crimson Diamond is a modern text-parser adventure game inspired by The Colonel’s Bequest and other classic mysteries. It was created by Julia Minamata and released for Windows and Mac in 2024. The Crimson Diamond stars Nancy…
Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter was released by Sierra On-Line in October 1986. It was designed by Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, the “Two Guys from Andromeda.” In Space Quest, you play as Roger Wilco (or a name of your choice), a…
William C. Appleton created Enchanted Scepters for the original Macintosh in 1984. It was one of the first point-and-click adventure games ever made. To help him create he made World Builder, the first multimedia authoring tool. World…
An assortment of games I’ve played that don’t fit into any other category. Most of these are incomplete playthroughs, demos, or shorter games I was able to finish up in one stream.
The Zen of Kayaking was created by pixel_turkey and gamedevjeff over the course of ten days, and released in 2024. It was inspired by classic Infocom text adventures like Hollywood Hijinx and made in Infocom’s Z-Machine format. The…
Zork is a text adventure game created by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Tim Anderson, and Bruce Daniels while they were at MIT. It was originally released for PDP-10 mainframe computers in 1977. The developers later founded Infocom and split…
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail was designed by Christy Marx—creator of Jem and the Holograms—along with her late husband, Peter Ledger. It was released by Sierra On-Line in 1990 for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST. The game…