Alien
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…
5 March 1982
Alien is an adventure developed by IBM, released 5 March 1982 on Apple II and DOS.
What Alien is
Alien is an adventure game developed by IBM and released in 1982. It is available on Apple II and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction.
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When did Alien come out?
Alien was released on 5 March 1982 for Apple II and DOS.
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