Alter Ego
Alter Ego is a life simulation game where players create a character and guide them through seven life phases from infancy to old age by making decisions in various situations. Players choose from multiple…
Alter Ego is an adventure developed by Activision, released 27 April 1986 on Android, Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
What Alter Ego is
Alter Ego is an adventure game developed by Activision and released in 1986. It is available on Android, Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and iOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Alter Ego is an interactive fiction role-playing video game developed and published by Activision in 1986. It was created by Peter J. Favaro for the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Apple II, and Macintosh. The game allows the user to make decisions for an imaginary person and shows what possible consequences these decisions could have on that person. Alter Ego was released in both male and female versions, each using a different set of experiences.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Alter Ego holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1986 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
Cheats and codes
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