Text Adventures/Interactive Fiction

[Puddleglum]

Hey there I am just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for any good text adventure games out there. I've recently gotten into them and I'm having trouble finding good ones!
What are some of your favorites?
A neat one I played recently is a free online one called "Galatea: The Gallery's End" ... (Link if you're interested: http://www.web-adventures.org/cgi-bin/webfrotz?s=Galatea&n=22647) It's not really an adventure but rather "a conversation with a work of art" it was very different and in-depth.
Another great one that I've had on floppy disc since I was little is "Humbug".. has anyone else played this? It's very funny and fairly large - I haven't beaten it.. yet

[ThreeOhFour]

Great topic! I've been looking for text adventures myself recently, so hopefully this thread will help the both of us

If you love Humbug and haven't checked it out yet, play Jacaranda Jim. It's incredibly strange and written by the same guy and also probably my favourite text adventure ever, and it was written the year I was born. And no, I haven't beaten it yet . I mainly just play it for giggles.

Another obvious choice is Chatroom by TheJBurger - because it's written in AGS and also because it's a darn neato game!

Bring on suggestions

[Ghost]

Ah, interactive fiction, glory be! I like to get my fixes over at Barf's Archive, where a great amount of games can be found. (Just check here: http://www.wurb.com/if/index )Here are some really good ones:

CURSES- very hard, but amazingly clever too,
and filled with deadly puns and cheeky quotes.

Jigsaw- a good showcase of episodic adventures, and one of the longest IF games ever written.

Christminster- full of detailed characters, and the puzzles, while easy, are a great display of uncommon interactions.

Many old Infocom games, resting on my hard drive, saved from the age of the floppy disk, are also stunningly creative. Just to mention one, try to find a copy of Nord And Burt Can't Make Head Or Tail Of It. It's hilariousity personified.

[Creed Malay]

 Haha, Humbug! I love that game, though it's stuffed with walking deads to a shocking degree, even for a text-adventure. Wonderfully written and atmospheric, though. The red-brick tunnels under the house are one of my favorite game enviroments ever. I've often doodled with the idea of attempting some sort of graphic remake of it, but I don't think I could ever do it justice.
Galatea is pretty wonderfull too, though it seriously creeps me out. Definetly one of the more thought provoking gaming experences, though. If you enjoyed the arty/high-concept kind of nature of it, you might like Aisle , a strange one-move kind of "game" that's pretty thought provoking, or For A Change a beautifully odd and lyrical game that I'm really not sure how to begin describing, except that it is beautiful.
Another nice one is Ad Verbum, which is crazily inventive and a really clever use of the medium. One kind of set piece in it, the alliteration rooms, are just incredible.
THere are loads more good ones, I'll try to have a think of some more.

[Eggie]

Always like this one: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=817

Especially since I've seen at least two other games that came out after it claiming to be the first to contain courtroom simulations.

This one's very cool too: http://www.wurb.com/if/game/120

And anything by Emily Short's usually a pretty safe bet.

[TerranRich]

I highly recommend Shades of Grey (sometimes known as SOGGY). It's an amazing text adventure that switches from a fantasy world to reality, with a good explanation as to why it seems to randomly switch. It's awesome.

http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/pc/soggy97.zip

Seriously, try it out.

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[Obi]

        One of my favourite Interactive Fiction game thing would have to be the Time Quest. It has all that whizzy non-linear stuff the kids go on about these days and it has a time machine which is all you could really ask for in a game. Even though it's a text adventure or Interactive fiction whatever you want to call it today it has pictures which is good for people who can't read so good, much like myself.

      Another added bonus is that it has the bestest cover art seen ever. see, it looks as if it should be the start for a BBC programme in the 80's secretly teaching kids about history when they're home ill from school. The game even has Sir Winston Churchill he was a pretty cool fat guy from what I hear, and I hear alot I'm always using my ears. It's a shame Abraham Lincoln isn't in the game because he was known to be honest and a friendly man. Not like that Nixon ooh no he wasn't nice at all.

   Also I would recommend A Mind Forever Voyaging where you play as a computer robot man or something like that. It's pretty hard to get into as there aren't any pretty pictures to look at, it's them times when there were no pictures you see. Like that monochrome laptop my dad used to have, oh my dad and his monochrome laptop what good times we had.

And lastly but also firstly check out the Amiga classic It came from the desert. Now there's a game, it has all that non-linear stuff that people like and it has really big ants which I've been a fan of for a long time. This game has really pretty pictures see? man Cinemaware were the best their games are so good, I wish they'd make more of them.

And remember The more things change, the more they stay the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCXYWpkQ9NQ

[Rincewind]

I've always been a huge fan of Eric the Unready, meself: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=375

A great text/semi-point-n-click game with a funny, tounge-in-cheek fantasy storyline. Highly overlooked and entertaining.

[Eggie]

Obi... that looks amazing.

On a similar note, there's also those cheeky Spellcasting games.

[Radiant]

Google up "Slouching Towards Bedlam". It's awesmoe.

[TerranRich]

Leather Goddesses of Phobos, while adult in nature, is actually a very unique and interesting IF game.

[Puddleglum]

wow!!! I'm just leaving a quick note to tell everyone how much I appreciate all of these responses - but I've gotta go for now, I have lots of downloading to do

[EdLoen]

if you liked Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law from adult swim, they did a text adventure based on it

http://www.adultswim.com/games/game/index.html?game=birdman_habeasdorkus

it's done up in flash though.

on a side note they also have up a graphic adventure series called Gigolo Assassin   

[Andorxor]

Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus How wouldn't play a game with this titel? 

A series of superherogames:
Earth and Sky
Earth and Sky 2
Earth and Sky 3

A game where everthing is killed:
Conan kills everything

[Kinoko]

Oh, Leather Goddesses of Phobos is one of the best and most under-appreciated text adventures out there. I fucking love that game.

It Came From The Desert is also fantastic. Funny, I never thought of it as being IF before, but I suppose it could fit into that catagory.

One I've started playing recently is Savoir-Faire but I'm almost nowhere in it yet and finally it bloody difficult. It came recommended though.

Anyone else played/playing it?

[Dualnames]

I'd say the original HHGTG but well, don't know, I always like a Mind Forever Voyaging.

[Ghost]

Savior Faire... Anyone else played/playing it?

I found it impossile to play without a walkthrough... well written though. The room descriptions alone hold several precious gems.

Gems remind me of Wishbringer. The first IF I ever played and still one I totally love.

Love reminds me of Plundered Hearts, also an underrated title from days long gone.

I could go on 

[Kinoko]

An IF game I really remember having a good atmosphere was from my Amiga days.

It was about several pirates landing on an island in different spots and you could choose which one to start with, then explore the island. It was the first IF game I played where the top half of the screen had pictures, too.

I can remember there being goblins hiding treasure, and cockles or something in the ocean you could collect and eat. Um, various things like that. It was really fun and I never finished it. I remember it being called something like, "Legend" or "Legend of the Sword" but... I'm not sure at all of that.

Anyone know it?