There's an entire genre of literature called "Electronic literature" of which interactive fictions are probably a subset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroni

There's an entire genre of literature called "Electronic literature" of which interactive fictions are probably a subset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_literature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_literature That said: it's a bit asking too much of games for them to have to validate their status as "art" by winning prizes proper to another form of art. Nobody expects films to win Nobel prizes; nobody expects land art to win Oscars. The video game medium is basically less than 50 years old and it's likely that the most compelling justifications for games as art have yet to be written. In practice, museums do treat them as art, but with a special focus on their "interaction design": https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798 https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798