Colossal Cave

It seems like an impossible task to create a 3D world that matches your imagination back from the old text adventure, but they somehow managed to do it. It really captures what the original descriptions conveyed. You could even say the game is faithful to a fault. It's beautiful and fun, but it's just as difficult as it has ever been. It is unforgiving in a way that you should expect that you will be playing it multiple times to figure everything out to be able to get a perfect score. Unfortunately (or fortunately, arguably) for me, I don't exactly remember all the puzzle solutions, so while I'm seeing some of my memories visually manifested, I am still somewhat going in blind. My only criticism of the game so far is that it's a little difficult to know if you've examined something before, which is exacerbated by the fact that the environment itself is something you can examine. Ergo, it's difficult to tell if the in-game object you're looking at is what you are going to examine or if it turns out it's solely decorative and you will simply trigger examining the environment for the dozenth time. Is this a dealbreaker? I don't think so, but it is the one thing I noticed.

A nice remake of the text-based classic and a throwback to adventure games of old.

This is the ultimate version of the classic Colossal Cave game! I highly recommend it for everyone who enjoyed playing the original PDP adventure game!

Williams are back, and so here you are a game of my late childhood reimagined with colors and images. At the beginning it was just text on a screen, now it's what you see. Don't consider a new game, you'll be disappointed in 2025: this is, READ CAREFULLY, how a game of late 70's would appear in that age if the current technology would be already available fifty years ago. So, this a retro futuristic experiment, I guess. With this idea, I've played Colossal Cave and I had fun. Naturally I'm still engaged because I need to find something else: where is the exit, for instance?

In 1978 I played a text version of this game, without points. I remembered the bird and snake. I remembered dwarfs trying to kill me. I remember loosing a pearl that rolled down a hill. Finally I remembered a shadowy figure who waved at me. I never finished the game. I always wanted to meet the shadow character and see what he wanted. NOW I have almost finished the game. It is fun. Yes old fashion. It is both for young and old. It is simple but not so simple, okay sometimes strange challanges. Game is worth playing. Game is BIG but not overly so. I do definately recommend it, however it is a bit pricy, best therefore to buy on sale.

A wonderful remake of one of the most classic games by definition. Instead of the primitive Parser system, this game is fully realized in graphical and auditory perfection. We love you Roberta & Ken Williams!!

This really is a fun and great game and the creators have only improved it since it was first released... it has a lot of replay potential and some seriously challenging puzzles. Highly recommend this and suggest you all find all the secrets and aim for the high score.

"YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE" Argh argh argh argh ARGH!!!! It took me *days* to map out that area in the original game (played on a Caltext LSI/3 in 1983) and I carefully hoarded that paper map for years. This was a rush back through time but with colourful pictures to go with it. As it turned out YAIAMOTLPAA didn't turn out to be as difficult as the original. As Wikipedia has it, this one is the grandaddy of all subsequent fantasy games. Play it just to see how today's games got started. Better still, play the original text-based game. Just don't play 'Zork' if you want to keep your sanity. Oh yes. I've been down Bedquilt. I was a caver (spelunker) for decades and back in 2003 I finally got to poke around in the mud in that section of Mammoth Cave. Good times made better by memories of the game.

Excellent adventure on its own, and a great walk down memory lane.

Great game. It was nice to play a 3D graphic version of the original cave adventure. Nice job. :)