An Easter egg has been found on Google's website, allowing users to engage in a fun text adventure game without leaving their web browser — just access the Javascript developer console. Join the ...

Text-based video games were popular even in the early days of computer gaming, with horror being a common genre due to its reliance on imagination. Colossal Cave Adventure, Amnesia, and Cutthroats ...

Released in 2004, The Dreamhold is one of the newer games on this list, but it’s a great place to start because it features something old-school text games never bothered with: A tutorial. The ...

In honor of the 2012 Interactive Fiction contest we’ll be featuring text-based games in this week’s Free Game Friday roundup. Not all of this week’s games come from the competition, but they ...

The first was CoinCollector, a class of text-based games where the objective is to find and collect a coin from a location given a set of rooms, and the second was CookingWorld, a collection of ...

"I realized that text stories are fractal," he says. He shows a workthrough of a smaller text-based game that he developed himself, Insignificant Little Vermin, as an example.