Text based games (also where to start )

[Dr.Poisonfreak]

Hello Escapists,

At the time writing i am bored by the state of current gen games, in terms of story ( there are, of course, a few exceptions to that opinion)

While having a conversation with a work colleague, he suggested i try my hand to text - based adventures, however, me being me, I don't have the first clue about them.

I am hoping you beautiful people can reccommend me some decent text based games.

Thank you for reading


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[HEADING=2] Which game would you suggest as a good starting point for text based adventures ? should have really put that in the op[/HEADING]

 

[SomeLameStuff]

By text-based game, does he mean "eaten by a Grue", or those online "chose your own story" things?

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

The big name in this particular field is Zork. Although if you start there many other text-based games will seem inferior.

EDIT - I assumed Grues and all, not the other kind.

 

[Dr.Poisonfreak]

By text-based game, does he mean "eaten by a Grue", or those online "chose your own story" things?

I assume he meant the online choose your own style but he wasn't particuarly specific

 

[Netrigan]

Infocom is pretty much the gold standard of text adventure games. The put out the Zork games along with scores of others. Highlights include Leather Goddesses Of Phobos, Planetfall, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (co-written by Douglas Adams), and lots more. Way out of print these days but fairly easy to find on-line. Douglas Adams' official site used to have Hitchhiker's but I don't know if that's still up so many years after his death.

 

[Netrigan]

http://www.infocom-if.org/links.html

This web site can tell you a lot about Infocom and this page is supposed to link to various public domain games. Have no clue if links are still active.

 

[Alluvian_Est-Endrati]

The top three I can recommend are: Dwarf Fortress, Hack (or Net Hack) and Adventure.

 

[Ymbirtt]

Try Humongous Cave, too. If nothing else it'll stop you from ever forgetting how to perform a vector cross product.