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The Gostak

A text adventure that is written almost entirely in gibberish. Players must puzzle out the general meaning of the game's text in order to progress.

1 October 2001

The Gostak is an adventure developed by Carl Muckenhoupt, released 1 October 2001 on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.

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What The Gostak is

The Gostak is an adventure game developed by Carl Muckenhoupt and released in 2001. It is available on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It runs on Inform.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole delcot, let the drokes uncren them. But you are the gostak. The gostak distims the doshes. And no glaud will vorl them from you.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

The Gostak launched on 1 October 2001, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto III, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 2 (2001) and Ico.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto III, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 2 (2001), Ico.

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When did The Gostak come out?
The Gostak was released on 1 October 2001 for Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.

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