Andrew Plotkin is one of the best IF authors there is, in my opinion.

Highly recommended the following:

Spider and Web: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=2xyccw3pe0uovfad

Shade: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=hsfc7fnl40k4a30q

So Far: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=rcrihauxixy48svr

>best IF authors there is

Never seen the acronym IF before, so for those in my position: IF = interactive fiction

Spider and Web is a particularly neat bit of storytelling, and I'd highly recommend it.

"Don't be absurd," he says. "You're no more a sightseer than the Old Tree in Capitol Square; and if you'd had enough sense to walk away from that door, you wouldn't be here. You don't and you didn't and are; we caught you. And you're going to start by telling me how you got through that door. Do you understand me?"

Without spoiling too much: it's a story about a spy infiltrating a military complex, told from the perspective of that man being interrogated after being captured. It's an unconventional narrative approach which does a nice job of giving the player some direction.

Hadean Lands is also very cool