Alien

Developed by IBM
Release date: 05 Mar 1982
PuzzleStrategyAdventure
Alien
Developer: Publisher: IBM
Platforms: DOSApple II
Player perspective: Text
This short text adventure casts the player as the sole survivor of a space disaster involving the luxury liner "Adonis." Stranded on a hostile planet full of monsters after a lifepod landing, the player must reach the planet's only other human occupants and find a way home. The game features a simple two-word parser, lots of "instant death" locations (making mapping important) and relatively few puzzles.