Text-based adventure games, known as "interactive fiction" in gamer's parlance, are making a slow but steady comeback thanks to a Mac-friendly programming tool called Inform 7.

The choice was yours in the opening scenario of Zork, a 1977 text-based adventure game that's one of the most famous examples of the genre. Choices are at the foundation of the text-based games.

AI-generated text adventures let players make choices to progress a story that hasn't been written yet. We explore how gamers are using ChatGPT and GPT-4 to fuel a potential renaissance for text ...