Interactive Fiction (also known as IF) is genre a stimulating environment, in which the player can use text commands to control the character and influence the landscapes. This type of process called narratives, either in the form of Role-playing game or Adventure game. The Interaction Fiction term refers to Text-based Adventure, a subgenre of Adventure game. Where the whole interface can be shown in text form only, however Graphical Text Adventure games are also available, where graphics mix the text, still fall under the category of Text Adventure, if the primary path to interact with the game is by typing form. Some players of the term distinguish between interactive fiction, called Puzzle-free, that revolves around narratives and text adventure that comprises puzzles. Text Adventure games are one of the oldest types of games and form a subset of the adventure genre. During the gameplay, the player uses the text input to control the character as well as the game, and the state of the game is relayed to the player via typing text. Input is offered by the player in the form of sentences like go east, get key, interact, pick up, or attack, which is interpreted by the text parser.

18 Best Interactive Fiction Games on Steam

#1 Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story

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Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story is an Adventure, Mystery, Interactive Fiction, and Single-player video game created by Accidental Queens and published by Playdius. The game offers an exciting gameplay that you have never experienced before. According to the thrilling story, you must explore the young woman’s social life whose mobile phone you have just discovered. It mixes the detective, narrative, and puzzle elements and lets you find clues by combining different elements from the messages, applications, and pictures to progress. You have to scroll the content of phone to find anything about the young woman named as Laura, find her friends and manipulate her professional life. Solve the mystery behind the disappearance of Laura and her lost phone. The story takes place on the entire phone and lets you a chance to experience a life of the detective to enhance your abilities. There are a series of levels with increasing difficulties, and each level introduces a unique task to accomplish. Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story includes core features such as Combine different elements, explore the Professional Life, challenging Puzzles, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

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#2 80 Days

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80 Days is a Single-player and Interactive Fiction video game created and published by Inkle for multiple platforms. The story of the game focuses on a fictional novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Berne. According to the plot, the protagonist named as Phileas Fogg must explore the entire world in just eighty days. As the protagonist, you must select the route around the three-dimensional environment, traveling by submarine, airship, and steam train to reach your destination.

There are more than 170 cities available in the world to explore. You must find new technologies to accomplish your task in the time limit. Balance your health, time, and finance, as you select your path from city to city across the world. 80 Days includes core features such as Replayability, Real People, Plan your Strategies, Explore the Globe, Complete Tasks, and Share your Journey with friends. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#3 Dear Esther

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Dear Esther is a cool First-person Action-Adventure, RPG, Indie, Interactive Fiction and Art-based video game. The game takes you to a remarkable world where an unknown entity named Esther partially takes control of yourself and allows you to explore an amazingly huge game world from a first person perspective. After a road crash you found yourself into the world of Esther but it seems like you have been summoned by the Esther, for what motives, that’s what you have to find out. The purely story driven game-play allows you to explore, interact and find the answers about what happened on the motorway, what is the significance of aerial, who is Esther and why did she summoned you here etc. With a mysterious background, great visuals, an immersive game-play, surreal surroundings, great sounds etc, Dear Esther is an amazing game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try.

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#4 realMyst: Masterpiece Edition

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realMyst: Masterpiece Edition is a Point-and-Click Action-Adventure, Interactive Fiction and Graphic masterpiece. This brilliant new remake of the Original Myst takes you to on an amazing journey to visit the past and relive the memories. The game offers quite original Myst inspired setting, visuals and game-play but in a more amazing and realistic way. It allows you to explore the world around you in a real-time, select a path for yourself through the lush green forest to the Island of Myst, explore (Buildings, Forest and Surrounding Areas), interact with objects, solve mystical and quite challenging puzzles and enjoy an amazing simulation type game-play. With an amazingly silent and beautiful environment, reconstructed 3D visuals, amazingly appealing and immersive game-play, hauntingly beautiful and binding music, auto save and a lot more wonderful features, realMyst: Masterpiece Edition is one of the best Action-Adventure, Point and Click and Puzzle Simulation to enjoy. Do try it out.

#5 The Stanley Parable

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The Stanley Parable is one wonderful First-person, Action-Adventure, Interactive Fiction and Graphic video game like Gone Home. The game allows you to be “Stanley” and lets you choose between your actions either to follow the story or not to follow the story, have a choice or don’t have a choice, act as Stanley or simply don’t act as Stanley, it totally depends on you. This twisted game allows you to explore a strange world, buildings etc. and slowly find out the meanings of almost everything, solve quenching puzzles and be part of a strange strange world. With awesomely engaging story and loads of new content, amazing visual details and background music, voice over etc., and a brilliantly immersive game-play, The Stanley Parable is a wonderful game to play.

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#6 Gone Home

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Gone Home is a First-person Indie Action-Adventure and Interactive Fiction Simulation developed by The Fullbright Company. The game takes place in the year 1995 and allows you to explore a mansion after coming back home after one long year. Every member of your family is vanished and you are left clueless about their sudden disappearance. In order to find them you must find clues, interact with objects and solve a number of challenging puzzles and mysteries. The game lets you be Kaitlin and allows you to explore the game world from a First-person Perspective, complete various game objectives in order to earn rewards, open up new areas and search for messages scattered all around the game world. Gone Home is an interactive video game that allwos you to look at objects, interact with them and keep on collecting the clues, objects and open up new game world areas to enjoy the game.

#7 Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack

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Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack is a Downloadable Content Pack for original Stellaris video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. The game mixes the Strategy and Space Simulation elements and offers the player new ways to establish is empire around the stars. In the game, the player starts as the Machine Empire with a task to establish his empire further and progress through the game to become the master. The game introduces unique event chains and features, enabling the machines to expand the empire as a robotic consciousness, and build an artificial intelligence-led network that grows the dominance. The player plays as the Stellarism, a customized robotic civilization. It enables the player to experience the empire-building and science-fiction exploration gameplay like never before. The DLC pack enables the player for the creation of machine empires, where the player can form entirely mechanical societies and can find his place among organics. With improved graphics, gameplay, controls, and environment, Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack is the brilliant game to play and enjoy.

#8 Universe Sandbox 2

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Universe Sandbox 2 is an Education, Interactive Space and Gravity Simulation developed by Dan Dixon and available to play on Microsoft Windows platform. The game takes place in the massive space environment full of galaxies, planets, moons and asteroids. By playing the game, the players can see the gravity’s effects on different objects in the massive universe and can run scale simulations of the solar system, while interacting and controlling time, gravity, other objects like moon, black holes, planets and more. The game comprises many realistic and fictional simulations. It is the sequel to Universe Sandbox and introduces new features such as atmosphere, randomly generated textures on gas giants, realistic collision system, Chart mode, visualization of black holes, and more. It has two different collision modes such as combine and bounce. Using the game, players can create their own universe by placing multiple planets, moons and asteroids. Universe Sandbox 2 offers core features such as Multiple Color Modes, Control (Speed, Gravity and Time), Two Collision Modes, Particle Grid, Ring Systems, and more. Check out the game and have fun.

#9 99Vidas

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99Vidas is a 2D, Beat ‘em up, Action, Single and Multiplayer Fighting video game created and published by QUByte Interactive. The game offers the similar gameplay to Double Dragon, Battletoads, Final Fight and Streets of Rage. It takes place in the fictional world populated with enemies. The player assumes the role of the protagonist who must walk-through at least six stages to pits against enemies and defeat them to earn points. There are up to eleven playable characters, and the player can choose one of them. Explore the environment from the side-scroll perspective, and fight against enemies using a different combination of attacks. Up to six bosses are waiting for the player in several stages and the game introduces versus mode, in which the player can compete against up to three other characters. 99Vidas offers core features such as powerful Enemies, Story Mode, Two Bonus Stages, Upgradeable Combos and more. Try it out.

#10 Postal 2

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Postal 2 is an Action, First-person Perspective, Open World and Shooter video game developed by Running with Scissors and published by Whiptail Interactive. It is the sequel to the Postal game released in 1997. The game takes place in the fictional world and casts you in the role of the protagonist, a Postal Dude who is a thin red-headed and tall man with a sunglasses, goatee, and a black leather coat. The protagonist lives in a trailer in the fictional land of Paradise, Arizona with his wife. At the beginning of every day, the protagonist is given a set of objectives that he must accomplish such as confess sins, get milk, and more. You can explore the world freely, interact with NPCs to fulfill your tasks and can use multiple weapons to slaughter pedestrian. Navigate the environment from the first-person perspective and earn experience points to unlock further content. Postal 2 offers incredible features such as Violent Gameplay, Non-linear World, NPCs to interact, and more. With stunning graphics, brilliant mechanics, and smooth controls, Postal 2 is the best game to play and enjoy.

#11 Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded

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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded is an Adventure, Point and Click and Single-player video game developed by nFusion Interactive and published by Replay Games. The game takes place in the fictional city of America Lost Wages, and the story revolves around a middle-aged man named as Larry Laffer and his attempts to get lucky. According to the story, the protagonist is a loser and lives in the basement of his mother. The protagonist decides to visit the resort city to find the woman of his dream. There are a variety of levels, and your ultimate task is to assist Larry to find his love otherwise he will commit suicide, causing a game over. To progress through the game, you have to interact with objects and environment and accomplish your tasks to earn money and satisfy your character. As the game progress, it becomes challenging, and your character is going out of control. With superb mechanics, well-written story, and brilliant graphics, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded is the best game to play and enjoy.

#12 Homesick

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Homesick is a brilliant First-person Action-Adventure, Interactive-Fiction and Indie video game that tasks you to explore an abandoned building, solve different puzzles, interact with objects, find the clues and eventually find out what happened here that made the residents abandon this huge building. With hell of a scary setting, hauntingly beautiful environment, countless challenging puzzles, exploration and Mystery, Homesick makes you feel being stuck into a strange domain between your nightmare and waking world. Homesick offers brilliant 3D visuals, a series of exciting puzzles, a wonderfully well-written story and an immersive game-play. Try it out and you’ll be amazed at every tiny detail of this marvelous piece of art.

#13 JazzPunk

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JazzPunk is a brilliant new First-Person Action-Adventure and Interactive-Fiction plus Art video game. The game allows you to be the unnamed protagonist, explore the game world, interact with objects and NPCs, solve some challenging puzzles, play mini games and enjoy engaging yourself into multiple amazing missions in which you are free to act on the pace you like. With amazingly simple controls, well-written objective-based story, environmental manipulation options, a crazy addictive game-play and a lot of other fun things, JazzPunk is a cool game to play. The additional Wedding Qake mode that allows you to go full scale against the AIs, makes this game even more fun. Try it out and you’ll definitely love what it has to offer.

#14 Only If

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Only If is a wonderful First-Person, Action-Adventure, Interactive-Fictional Art and Exploration video game. The game allows you to be Anthony Clyde who after a full night of partying, wakes up on a strange bed with no memory of what happened last night. He gets up and finds himself locked into an unknown building and tries to escape but fails. Your task is to help Clyde explore the building, interact with the objects, find clues, solve some challenging puzzles and escape. The antagonist, who locked you up is the one making hurdles for you, so you must solve every puzzle he throws at you, go smashing through every hurdle and obstacle he puts in your way and use the collected objects as a combination or individually to finally escape the place. With a wonderful setting, great visuals, and an immersive game-play, Only If is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

#15 Thirty Flights of Loving

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Thirty Flights of Loving is a First-person Action-Adventure, Indie and Interactive-Fiction video game that offers a fun filled gameplay experience. This short story game lets you explore the world of Thirty Flights of Loving from a first-person perspective and witness an amazing combination of Exploration, Object Finding and Puzzle gaming elements altogether. You can be a gunslinger, an explorer or a normal being in the game world, interact with the objects, find clues, interact with the NPCs, eliminate criminals, wave a stick at the stray animals and enjoy being part of a mystical world where everything is puzzling and you are the one to solve that puzzles. With amazing 3D graphics, an involving story and an engaging game-play, Thirty Flights of Loving is quite fun to play and enjoy.

#16 Tri: Of Friendship and Madness

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Tri: Of Friendship and Madness is a cool Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform, Interactive-Fiction and First-Person Exploration and Art video game by Rat King Entertainment. The game takes you to the world of oddities, lets you explore a huge open world from a first-person perspective, find the magical powers of Tri, master them and create your own path in order to know about the wonders of the world around you. If you really want to enjoy this game, you’ll have to go through the twisted corridors, cross the huge gantries, go through a series of dungeons and solve some of the most challenging and complex puzzles by using the powers of Tri and enjoy being part of a strange world. With amazing first-person puzzle, brilliant visuals, objective-based story-line and an addictive game-play, Tri: Of Friendship and Madness is a brilliant game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.

#17 The Detail

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The Detail is an amazing Graphic-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game by Rival Games Ltd. The game allows you to be Detective Reginald “Reggie” Moore, who becomes frustrated with the defective Justice System and plans to take it down with all the responsible. Crime scene investigations, clue and object finding, capturing the accused and investigating them are the most prominent features of this brilliant game. The game takes place on the fictional location of a Modern American City and it allows you to control the main character Reggie, start from a murder case that took place because of a long lasting gang war, make toughest choices that will directly affect your life as a detective. You must solve the case and at the same time protect your family from the gang members and keep on pacing through the story. The Detail offers a gameplay that is a mixture of Interactive Comics and other story-based elements. The game offers a gameplay and mechanics inspired by the popular The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead by telltale games and features realistic crime based drama and visuals. The story of the game is more similar to the HBO hit T.V Series “The Wire” and is quite interesting to get involved in. With all the Drama, and Suspense, The Detail is one amazing video game to play and enjoy.

#18 Life is Strange

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Life is Strange is a Single-player Graphic Adventure and Interactive Fiction video game by Square Enix. The game consists of five main episodes and focuses on the character of a Photography student named as Maxine Caulfield. Maxine Caulfield discovers out that she has the special ability to reverse time and any specific moment. The story takes a twist when Maxine foresees a huge Storm raging to destroy her town and that the time when she realizes that she’s the only one to prevent it from happening. Life is Strange allows the players to control the character of Maxine Caulfield and follow the narrative as it unfolds into all the storyful actions that the player character performs. Amazing trips to the past, fantastic quests, freedom to explore and the ability to manipulate environmental elements, loads of challenging puzzles and game ending based upon the actions performed by the character, Life is Strange offers a truly remarkable gameplay experience that is based on pure graphics and interactive elements. With an episodic gameplay, various character archetypes, a great story, graphic adventure nature and point-and-click puzzles, Life is Strange offers beautiful visuals and an impressively addictive gameplay to enjoy. Life is Strange is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox and Linux platforms.