Play AdventureWriter Online
You sketch out text adventures with bare-bones commands, then curse when playtesting reveals your "brilliant" dungeon is actually an inescapable death trap. That janky green-on-black editor somehow turns typing "go north" into pure imagination fuel.
Game Overview
AdventureWriter was my first taste of game design—clunky, text-only, and absolutely magical. You'd start by sketching out locations like "dark forest" or "rusty spaceship," then connect them with commands as simple as "go north" or "take sword." The real fun came when you'd test your own creations and realize you'd accidentally made an unwinnable maze (again).
It wasn't pretty—just green text on a black screen—but that blank page feeling? Unmatched. I spent hours building stories where players could either rescue a princess or, if they typed "insult wizard," get turned into a toad. Perfect for anyone who ever scribbled dungeon maps in school notebooks.
Modern tools might be slicker, but there's something special about how this stripped-down DOS relic made storytelling feel like cracking a secret code.
Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".
Download AdventureWriter ROM
You can download this ROM to play AdventureWriter offline using an MS-DOS emulator (Top Emulators).
*This ROM is provided for backup and educational purposes only.
