In the age of evolving technology, video games are starting to look more and more like movies. The last game I picked up for Xbox had a ten minute theatrical intro that looked like something I’m ...

To find the game, on a desktop computer, in Google Search, search for the terms "text game" or "text adventure." Once you've searched the terms above, initialize the game with the Dev Console.

The news that old-school adventure game pioneers Roberta and Ken Williams are returning to gaming after 25 years with a virtual reality version of classic game Colossal Cave got me thinking about how ...

RPGs excel when combining narrative and worldbuilding through engaging text. Roadwarden, Wildermyth, Citizen Sleeper, Suzerain, and Disco Elysium stand out for their immersive text-based ...

In the late 70s, the first real text-based game, Colossal Cave Adventure, was burning up the very limited interconnected networks of ARPANET, which was the precursor to the internet.

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Adventure games can take a myriad of forms these days, including relying solely on text. Creative developers can experiment with all kinds of settings, characters, and storylines, giving players an ...

Text-based adventures have always been a bit of a niche genre of games to me, with a few notable exceptions like your classic Zork in the late seventies. Some other big names come to mind, like Beam ...

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text-based adventure game, the BBC has released a free online version. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

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 ...