Mindfighter

The time is not too long from now. The place is New York City. Yet it is a setting few of us would ever recognize. For this is a world where simply owning a book is dangerously illegal. Where Firemen come not to save houses, but to burn them for the books inside. And where you, once a dedicated Fireman, are now a rebel with a passion for books --- and the most wanted fugitive in the country. An Interactive Fiction game based on the book with the same name. Set as a sequel to the book, taking place after the novel ends.

Gateway is a 1992 interactive fiction video game released by Legend Entertainment, and written by Glen Dahlgren and Mike Verdu. It is based on Frederik Pohl's Heechee universe.

Based on Isaac Asimov's novel of the same name, you are Earth detective Elijah Baley who is sent to the Spacer world of Aurora to investigate the murder of Dr. Han Falstofe.

In order to save Earth's future you are given a time machine enabling you to travel into several time periods of the distant past where you meet famous people like Robin Hood, Christopher Columbos or Cleopatra who will help you to change Earth's destiny.

Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon have seen more than enough to last a life time. They've been given hardly any information on what they are supposed to investigate and are also bringing some fresh recruits along. A sci-fi narrative game made in Twine.

Traveler is a short work of interactive fiction about identity, existence, purpose, and loss. It features four endings and infinite procedurally-generated planets.

Based on Ray Bradbury's short stories by the same name; you are sent to Mars tasked with retrieving a relic from the ancient martian city of Xi, and find out what happened to the others sent before you.

A graphical adventure set in Larry Niven's "Known Space" universe. The centerpiece of the Known Space universe is the Ringworld, an artificially created planet that is actually an immense band orbiting a distant star (Halo borrows this idea for its setting). If you aren't familiar with Niven's series, go out and pick up any one of the dozens of Known Space books and you won't be far from having to track down all of them. In Revenge of the Patriarch, the player must travel to the Ringworld to uncover information which could prevent the alien Kzinti from starting another war with humanity. It follows the standard point and click formula for adventure games.

The Snowball 9 was eqipped with robots which were to prepare Eridani A for colonization. But being suddenly awakened from hibernation, you realize something has gone wrong...