PLATFORMS

Oubliette is one of the earliest party-based role-playing games. It is an open-ended hack-and-slash through a multilevel dungeon with a party of 1-6 characters, chosen from possible classes including Fighters, Priests and Thieves. They will gain experience, jewelry and armor as the adventure progresses, but they will also age and may eventually die. Spells are triggered … Continue reading “Oubliette”

In the third game of the adventure game series Zork, you are once again a nameless adventurer, only this time you won’t travel through a beautiful magical land, but are immediately cast into a deep dungeon. Like in a dream, you hear a mysterious voice telling you that you have passed all the tests but … Continue reading “Zork III: The Dungeon Master”

Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz is a text adventure, a sequel to the classic first Zork. Once again, the game is set in the Great Underground Empire, but this time the main goal is to face off against the titular Wizard. Like its predecessor, Zork II plays like any other text adventure: there are no graphics – only … Continue reading “Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz”

Zork: The Great Underground Empire is a classic text adventure game. The player begins as an “adventurer” standing near a white house in a nice forest, but soon descends into the Great Underground Empire, where most of the game takes place. The player’s quest is to collect the Nineteen Treasures of Zork. As was typical … Continue reading “Zork I: The Great Underground Empire”

Rogue is a turn-based dungeon crawler in which the player controls an adventurer who must explore the dangerous Dungeon of Doom in order to retrieve the precious Amulet of Yendor and make it out alive. The player character starts on the upper-most level and slowly makes his way downwards. The game uses ASCII characters to represent … Continue reading “Rogue”

An early (late ’70s) HP minicomputer text adventure game, this one begins with the player dropped off by a taxi outside the locked gate of an estate containing an eponymous mysterious mansion, at the end of an endless “hideous highway”. The grounds are surrounded by dense and difficult-to-navigate (even with the assistance of obligatory magic … Continue reading “Mystery Mansion”

Adventure is a port of the mainframe text adventure Adventure (also known as Colossal Cave Adventure). It is based on Bob Supnik’s DECUS implementation of Don Woods’ enhanced version with 350 points. During the game, the player visits and explores a cave. The goal is to find treasure by solving puzzles. Interactions with the game are conducted by entering verb-noun commands … Continue reading “Colossal Cave Adventure”

Moria is an old school dungeon crawler. Your ultimate goal is to find the Reaper’s Ring hidden on one of the many dungeon levels in the game. You may also join a Guild and work to become Master of that guild. Or you may simply choose to increase your attributes through combat and acquiring treasure. … Continue reading “Moria”