I find them really fun as an author of a reader interactive adventure. I always believed that reader interactive fictions and test adventures were super fun. Sadly I have not played a lot so feel free to say your favorites or link them up, including any reader interactive stories your currently writing! 

Mine is Arching Choices 1.2  Feel free to check it out or Let me know yours!

The only one I've played is The Great Tournament and it was pretty fun.

Converted Infocom games are still accessable to play online from several cache sites.

Zork series, etc.

Also the iconic Scott Adams games
http://freearcade.com/Zplet.jav/Scottadams.html

FAHyatt Wrote: Converted Infocom games are still accessable to play online from several cache sites.

Zork series, etc.

Also the iconic Scott Adams games
http://freearcade.com/Zplet.jav/Scottadams.html

Thank's so much for the suggestion, I'm definitely going to check those out, haven't played a ton besides a couple of DOS games

I used to like then a long while ago. Since you like writing, I think you would probably like AI Dungeon too. They added an energy system sadly, so I think it kinda diminishes the experience. But it was a pretty interesting take at an 'anything goes' text adventure.

If you haven't seen it, check out the Interactive Fiction Competition -- anyone can sign up and help judge entries. There are a couple days left in this year's competition! Or you can wait till the competition is over and then play the winning games. I've been blown away by how crazy and innovative some of these text games get, and they're still evolving year over year.

Last time I participated, my favorite was Animalia. Here's a blurb:


"After the forest animals sacrifice a Human child to the Forest God, they realize they might have made a mistake. Someone's gonna come looking. To stave off Human investigation, they create a replica child suit and send it to the Human town, hoping that nobody will notice the difference."


The game starts off with choosing which four forest animals will go into the child suit and operate it, and it rockets off to insanity from there.

My all time favorite text game is Galatea by Emily Short, but it's less of an adventure and more of a psychological and philosophical mind bender.