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Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box is a nightmarish text-based adventure game, with the adventure being your own mind. The mystery at the heart of the game constantly swims in and out of focus and there are clues to locate that…

31 March 2012

Pandora's Box is an indie developed by TerrorBull Games, released 31 March 2012 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Pandora's Box is

Pandora's Box is an indie game developed by TerrorBull Games and released in 2012. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pandora's Box is a nightmarish text-based adventure game, with the adventure being your own mind. The mystery at the heart of the game constantly swims in and out of focus and there are clues to locate that may or may not help you. It might even be a new genre: A 'whyisit', rather than a 'whodunnit'.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are horror.

What it launched against

Pandora's Box launched on 31 March 2012, within three weeks of Journey, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, Fire Emblem Awakening and Fez.

Released around the same time: Journey, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, Fire Emblem Awakening, Fez.

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When did Pandora's Box come out?
Pandora's Box was released on 31 March 2012 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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