Golden Seas - A high quality text adventure game from Sunteam for the ZX Spectrum NEXT

Text Based Adventure games are still very popular, especially with the latest games mentioned such as Survival Messenger Adventure, and those included in the Halloween and Treasure Hunt Jam. But now we turn our attention to another text adventure game that's worth a look in, as according to Sunteam, they have released a high quality adventure game for the ZX Spectrum NEXT called 'Golden Seas'; a game that was originally written using Adventuron and converted to the Spectrum Next using DAAD Ready (converter by @uto_dev).

ISS EMERGENCY - A new Adventure adaptation for the Commodore 64 and Plus/4

We've mentioned a number of command text based adventure games lately, from games such as Venganza and Spooky Adventure, to Knight Orc and Masquerade. But now another game has appeared which will appeal to gamers who like those sort of games, as we've been told by a good friend of ours that 'ISS EMERGENCY' has been released for the C64 and Plus/4 as a game written by John Whatson and adapted for 8-bit machines by Gareth Pitchford with the DAAD Engine converted by Siz.

Adventuron CaveJam - Adventuron (illustrated) text adventure game creation jam with new games to play!

We've mentioned a lot of creative Jams through our time on Indie Retro News, from Jams such as Game Boy Jam, ZX Spectrum Jam and CGA Jam, but now once again we are back with another Adventuron Cavejam update! As thanks to a heads up by our good friend Chris Ainsley who is also behind the competition, not only is the Adventuron Cavejam voting phase starting, but there's lots of games to play including Mushroom Hunt, AND in light of the upcoming Halloween theme, you can also play Spooky Adventure!

Venganza - Text based adventure game by Physical Dreams launched for the MSX

Text Based Adventure games are back in fashion it seems, especially with the latest games mentioned such as Excalibur: Sword of Kings and Microfair Madness to name but a few. But now we turn our attention to another text based adventure game that's worth a look in, as according to msx.org, Physical Dreams have launched their commercial MSX game of ' Venganza'; which is a Spanish based game available in cartridge format with an English version due soon!

Adventuron Classroom - Create your own family friendly text based adventure game!

Something slightly different for this end of the week retro heads up, as we've been contacted by Chris Ainsley that he has launched the Adventuron Classroom; a new fun way for parents and children to learn how to code together as a team. Yes indeed, if you remember the very enjoyable Excalibur: Sword of Kings text based adventure remake from Chris, then you'll know what to expect with this latest launch. As the developer is hoping that both children and parents can come together and create text based adventures using his own guided lessons and no prior programming experience necessary.

Excalibur: Sword of Kings - Text based adventure game remade and ready to be played online!

Throughout the last few years we've featured a number of text based adventures, games such as The Pawn Remastered, The Marlo Files Remastered Edition, and Goblin Towers to name but a few. But there's another game that might be worth a look on this lovely Tuesday afternoon, and that's Adventuron's online remake of a text based game called ' Excalibur: Sword of Kings '.

Microfair Madness C64 - Three-part text adventure game recovered and released

It was only just last year that we announced the release of the DAAD Adventure Writer; an incredible piece of sotware that was not only recovered and extended after 30 years, but it allowed you to create text based adventure games for systems such as the C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, PCW, Atari ST, Amiga and IBM PC (DOS). Well thanks to a detailed heads up by Gareth in our inbox, we now have Microfair Madness to enjoy; a recovered text based adventure game that was produced in 2019 from the ZX Spectrum version, and is now playable on the C64 via the magic of Stefan Vogt's ANTUR transcompiler and the power of Infinite Imagination's DAAD.

Unhallowed - Spooky text based adventure gets a Halloween release

Halloween has come and gone and while we featured most of the games that came out yesterday there was one game we did miss out on and that was our good friend Blerkotron's ZX Spectrum 128k game of ' Unhallowed '. This game developed using P.A.W is a classic text-adventure horror game with a few twists that as the developer says "makes it more palatable for modern players".

DAAD Adventure Writer - Text based adventure game creator, fully recovered after 30 years!

A great piece of news has just hit our inbox, as we've recently been contacted by Stefan Vogt, the same creator behind the recently updated brilliant science fiction game Hibernated 1: This Place is Death. That he has recently announced the DAAD Adventure Writer has been fully recovered, extended and released after being lost for 30 years. This incredible piece of software allows you to create text based adventure games, for systems such as the C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, PCW, Atari ST, Amiga, IBM PC (DOS)!

The Pawn - Classic text adventure by Magnetic Scrolls remastered and ZX Spectrum Next

Way back in 1985 Magnetic Scrolls released the fantastic text based adventure game for the Sinclair QL, with later systems such as the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple II, Acorn Archimedes, Atari ST, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Macintosh and even the ZX Spectrum. In fact during that time it was so good it not only won an award for the best adventure game of the year in a Crash magazine, but also the publisher Firebird's second best selling Commodore game of late 1987.

Isle of the Dead - In development Text based adventure now features over 900 rooms!

It was only just last month we did a big feature on D.B Taylor's text based adventure Isle of the Dead, whereby your experience in the game will be based on fright and graphics, and being able to travel and converse with other characters, although meeting Zombies will probably end up in certain death. This same game has not only grown in size with over 900 rooms but Walter Whitman has helped improve version 1.1, making it look and run a lot more smoother than the previous version!

Isle of the Dead - In development Text based adventure with the undead!

Way back in the early days of computing many of us had the joys of playing text based adventures, whereby you were flooded with words, shown the odd landscape image and had to work out what the hell you were supposed to type to continue the story. It was certainly a time David Taylor enjoyed, as only recently he sent us two exclusive images for his in-development text based adventure ' Isle of the Dead ', which as you guessed it features Zombies and thousands of rooms to explore!

Doomsday Lost Echoes - A grand space adventure is now available on the Amstrad CPC

An early morning surprise for Amstrad CPC 128k owners as Doomsday Productions have now released their high grade adventure game programmed using the Professional Adventure Writing System, of ' Doomsday Lost Echoes '. As we said before in our big write up (here), this is a top quality text based adventure game featuring three possible endings, multiple side-quests, tons of pixel art, detailed descriptions and as the developers have said one of the most friendly parsers ever seen in an 8bit computer.

Doomsday Lost Echoes - A grand space adventure coming to the Amstrad CPC next Tuesday!

Doomsday Productions has recently released a seriously cool trailer for their upcoming Adventure game ' Doomsday Lost Echoes ', which is due next week on Tuesday for the Amstrad CPC. Classed as a text based adventure game, you play as Mike, a renegade, a bounty hunter, a scavenger, or even a mercenary who has just run out of money from his last mission, thankfully the luck could be on his side as not long after he receives an email that could make him rich... or it could be a trap!