Zork Anthology

I love this series- but it's going to be hard for most people to get into them. However, Zork Zero, the last text-based entry, is in my opinion my favorite. It's designed by Steve Meretzey, features a more visually interesting interface, built-in hint system (with some fun inside), and a storyline that is really fun especially if you read the feelies. I beat all these games when I was young boy, and while today they may be hard to get into, I can assure you if you give Zork Zero a chance, you won't be disappointed with either the writing or puzzles.

Zork

I zorked it

text adventures got me into programming. cant go wrong with Zork edit: if you are stuck and find it hard to make your own map, google the original MIT maps that they used when creating this game. it make understand the topography of it all much simpler

Timeless concept. You have to be really creative with how you use the items, and you'll get yourself killed so many times that the game ends up lasting forever, even though each target is pretty simple once you know it. It took me 120 hours to complete Zork 1, and that's after looking up half of the solutions. I'm starting Zork 2 now, and I'm going to try it without looking anything up, now that I have a bit of an idea how things work.

if nopony got me i know that random chance of a thief stealing your plot essential items and softlocking me forever especially doesnt ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ got me

honestly you can get these games for free from most places and can run it natively in command line, but these text adventures are honestly great fun.

You have any idea how old this game is I had this back in 1985. When I was in 7th grade on my home computer..it a text adventur game..no graphics..fun at that time

the thief stole my will to live 10\10

I don't know the word "chud"