diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 3b9cce32c29..309a35bcaf2 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@
   nfjinjing = "Jinjing Wang <nfjinjing@gmail.com>";
   nhooyr = "Anmol Sethi <anmol@aubble.com>";
   nico202 = "Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms@gmail.com>";
+  nicknovitski = "Nick Novitski <nixpkgs@nicknovitski.com>";
   notthemessiah = "Brian Cohen <brian.cohen.88@gmail.com>";
   NikolaMandic = "Ratko Mladic <nikola@mandic.email>";
   np = "Nicolas Pouillard <np.nix@nicolaspouillard.fr>";
diff --git a/pkgs/games/frotz/default.nix b/pkgs/games/frotz/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3b4fb6842db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/games/frotz/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ncurses }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "2.44";
+  name = "frotz-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "DavidGriffith";
+    repo = "frotz";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "0gjkk4gxzqmxfdirrz2lr0bms6l9fc31vkmlywigkbdlh8wxgypp";
+  };
+
+  makeFlags = ''CC=cc PREFIX=$(out) CURSES=-lncurses'';
+
+  buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://frotz.sourceforge.net/;
+    description = "A z-machine interpreter for Infocom games and other interactive fiction.";
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.nicknovitski ];
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9b41b8558c5..ee6c6322a89 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -15503,6 +15503,8 @@ in
 
   freeorion = callPackage ../games/freeorion { };
 
+  frotz = callPackage ../games/frotz { };
+
   fsg = callPackage ../games/fsg {
     wxGTK = wxGTK28.override { unicode = false; };
   };