I remember really liking Bad Machine. You're a robot in a factory that's been in an accident, and you debug yourself.
Ask HN: What's your favorite text-based adventure game?
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#72During the pandemic I decided to work through Zork, and ended up completing the first three Zork games with minimal "looking things up" (actually, much to my chagrin I had to look up something precisely once per game, and in each case it was a small puzzle right near the and of the game, almost perfect!). I'll go ahead and second Planetfall though, which I saw someone else mention. For anyone else curious, I would pu…
Andrew Plotkin developed a rating system for adventure game cruelty that's popular within the community: https://www.ifwiki.org/Cruelty_scale Space Quest is rated the maximum "Cruel" under this system, as it's easy to render the game unwinnable with no feedback that you're in this state. Almost all modern adventure games are less cruel.
We always called this “getting Sierra’d”
I’m looking at you KQ5 - “Failing to rescue this rat will result in yet another DMW. This is probably the single most infamous puzzle in King's Quest 5”
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite text-based adventure game?
#73Zork was amazing, and was on the internet in the 1970's. Zork history is pretty amazing too: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29885/eaten-grue-brief-h... If you've ever seen source code with comment warnings such as "It is pitch black" or "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" or "You're in a maze of twisty little passages", then you've encountered some of Zork's famous lines.
Nope on the last one:) That's from Adventure.
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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite text-based adventure game?
#75Zork was amazing, and was on the internet in the 1970's. Zork history is pretty amazing too: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29885/eaten-grue-brief-h... If you've ever seen source code with comment warnings such as "It is pitch black" or "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" or "You're in a maze of twisty little passages", then you've encountered some of Zork's famous lines.
Honestly it's still my favourite this day, if you can memorize the mazes and some of the puzzles and you get a good run with the RNG, its still fun from time to time to see how few moves you can complete it in.
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#76Vagrus: The River Realms[1] is excellent.
[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/909660/Vagrus__The_Riven_...
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#77I tend to like games for their individual puzzles/tricks. I fondly remember the babel fish puzzle in HHGTTG, but my favorite was Leather Goddesses of Phobos. It was a bit risque (usually a draw for a teen), and the game "knew" if the player was male or female without ever asking. Took me several playthroughs to figure out how it managed to do that.
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#78Excel