The original Zork was released back in 1977. This was a good six years before Japan got to play with the NES, and it was the ...

These days, adventure gamers are filled with options. There are so many viable titles to get through, with a conveyor belt of new releases frequently coming to the fore. Many of these products are ...

Last year, Aaron A. Reed published 50 Years of Text Games, a fascinating history of the kind of games where you have to "get lamp" or "float down the Columbia river". It covered ancient classics like ...

Back in the very early days of home computers, onscreen imagery was a bit rubbish so text-based adventure games ruled the gaming roost. The Ink Console is aiming to rekindle this retro vibe by ...

Publisher Flyhigh Works and developer Team9 have released a Switch version of text adventure game Word Game via Nintendo eShop in Japan (Japanese) and Hong Kong (Traditional Chinese) for 3,600 yen, ...

Microsoft's Open Source Program Office (OSPO), in collaboration with Xbox and Activision, has open-sourced the historical text adventure games Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III under the MIT license. This ...

Microsoft has made classic text adventures Zork and its sequels open source. The original trilogy (which is actually one huge game that developer Infocom split into three parts) is now available under ...

The adventure game niche is broad, including everything from visual novels to rich, open-world RPGs. They all have something in common, though — exceptional stories that reward curiosity and ...