Subscribe to our newsletter. Maybe you're a big fan of adventure games, but have only played graphic adventures before. Perhaps you've visited our online text adventure archive and don't know where to begin. Or maybe you bought a collection of the old Infocom adventures and aren't sure how to play them. This article is here to help you out.
Text adventures can be a lot of fun, but they take some getting used to.
By taking you by the hand and leading you through part of a game, I hope to make your trip up the interactive fiction learning curve easier. What I'm going to tell you won't apply to every game that's out there, but it will help you play many of them. My goal is to help you learn how to look at a text adventure and figure out what's going on. Don't let it fool you. This sounds restrictive, but once you become familiar with how text adventures work, it'll help you narrow down possible actions.