In honor of the 2012 Interactive Fiction contest we’ll be featuring text-based ... week’s games come from the competition, but they all feature the written word as their main gameplay mechanic.

Popular text-based adventure game Lifeline was named Apple's App of the Week, and as a result, it's available to download for free for the first time since it launched in April of 2015.

Everyone seems to love "retro" 8-bit video games, but it doesn't get much more retro than a text-based adventure. If you've never tried one before, or you're just bored and have a Mac nearby ...

Best of all, in true 1980s fashion, the console starts off by asking, “Would you like to play a game?” To access the text-based adventure ... by heading to the View menu, selecting Developer ...

Chernosky's text-based ... of Games and Hosted Games apps there, I really loved playing them," she said. "I’d always been a reader, and these were books where you literally were the main character.

If you’ve never played a text game, you should. Doing so is incredibly easy, and also free. And you certainly don’t need to worry about a fancy graphics card or your system specs” All 10 ...

The choice was yours in the opening scenario of Zork, a 1977 text-based ... how the game works, I doubt it would be as consistent and would likely diverge from staying accurate to the main game ...

A lifelong computer-game player, Sherman spends his professional life talking up the nostalgic charm of old-fashioned text-based games. His company, Malinche Entertainment, has produced several ...