Can you still play text adventure games?

Yes, you can still play text adventure games, and there are more ways to do it now than ever. The classic titles like Zork and Colossal Cave Adventure are freely playable through browser emulators and interpreters, and archives like the Interactive Fiction Database catalog thousands of games you can download or run online. A whole community still releases new text-based and choice-based games every year, many of them free. Modern ones often run right in a browser, so you do not need old hardware or special software. Whether you want the original 1980s parser classics or fresh interactive fiction, they are all very much playable. You can try browser-based, choice-driven story games on the play page.