Zork I

Play:

Full screen Touch: Tap the game to bring up your keyboard, type a command (OPEN MAILBOX, GO NORTH, TAKE LAMP) and press Enter. Everything is typed, so it plays on a phone but is comfier with a real keyboard. · Keyboard: Type commands and press Enter. Up and Down arrows recall earlier commands. SAVE and RESTORE keep your progress in this browser.

About:

The Great Underground Empire, the grue, the thief, the white house: Infocom's 1980 text adventure is the game most of interactive fiction descends from. Explore a sprawling cave system, solve its puzzles and bring nineteen treasures back to the trophy case. It is fair, funny and occasionally cruel, so save often. This is Infocom's own story file (Release 119), which Microsoft released under the MIT licence in November 2025, running in the open-source Parchment interpreter.

Credits:

Made by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson (Infocom), 1980. Published here under the MIT (game, Microsoft 2025); Parchment interpreter MIT licence. Source code.

Phone check: 2026-09-29

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Tags:

interactive-fiction · text-adventure · parser · puzzle · classic