Interactive Fiction

Interactive Fiction is a kind of software that simulates environments through the use of text, and in which the player interacts with the environment by typing commands.
A computer game and a literary genre at the same time, Interactive Fiction reached the peak of its success during the golden age of home computers, the early-mid 1980s, when it was better known as "text adventures". One of the reasons for its popularity was its text-only nature, which allowed easy portability on different platforms and did not require advanced computing or graphic capabilities—the player's imagination standing in for that.

Today the IF genre flourishes again as a new form of narrative, thanks to a large online community of talented authors / programmers and their readers, also outside the anglophone world. This community has produced captivating stories such as Shade, Violet, Anchorhead, and Curses.

This webpage honors the genre by presenting walkthroughs and maps for a few titles:

• Anchorhead
• Robots of Dawn
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Déjà Vu - A Nightmare Comes True
• Déjà Vu II - Lost in Las Vegas