An interactive fiction story by Andrew Plotkin depicting a tense and harrowing chase in a claustrophobic cavern setting.
AdventureThrillerinteractive fictiontext adventureWeb browser, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
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Character
Grave, intimate, earnest and relentless.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the game
- Platforms
- Web browser, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
- Developer
- Andrew Plotkin
- Released
- December 31, 1999
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Text
- Engine
- Inform
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