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Hm. I have to challenge a list that doesn’t include George Alec Effinger’s Circuit’s Edge. I get that it was written after the hayday of Infocom, but it was completely within the spirit and craft.

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It isn't really related to the Infocom that released the Zork games, except in a legal sense. Infocom was sold to Activision in 1986, and shut down as a studio in 1989. Circuit's Edge was published in 1990, labelled "Infocom" but just because that's the brand Activision chose to market it under.

Legally, no. But it was written in the spirit of Infocom games — all the gameplay is designed around text narrative, with the classic text parser to drive the action — and Effinger had connections with the actual Infocom team (he wrote their Zork paperback adaptations). And Michael E. Moore from Infocom was the associate producer, they'd phone him for game direction and advice.

I think it's spiritually an Infocom game. If the company had persisted and there were any future in adventure games, Circuit’s Edge is exactly what they would have produced.

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