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IGDB / 363225

Alter Ego

2017 Adventure Indie Role-playing (RPG)
Alter Ego is a text-based interactive fiction game where players live a complete life from birth to death, making choices through over a thousand multiple-choice questions that determine their character's path. Players decide whether to grow up confident or troubled, befriend or fight bullies, find romance, pursue marriage and family, or build a business empire, with substantially different experiences available for Show full summary

Alter Ego is a text-based interactive fiction game where players live a complete life from birth to death, making choices through over a thousand multiple-choice questions that determine their character's path. Players decide whether to grow up confident or troubled, befriend or fight bullies, find romance, pursue marriage and family, or build a business empire, with substantially different experiences available for male and female characters. Originally published in 1986 for Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Apple II, and Macintosh, this updated edition maintains the original content while featuring an improved interface and bug fixes from the classic pick-a-path gamebook style.

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Alter Ego is a text-based interactive fiction game where players live a complete life from birth to death, making choices through over a thousand multiple-choice questions that determine their character's path. Players decide whether to grow up confident or troubled, befriend or fight bullies, find romance, pursue marriage and family, or build a business empire, with substantially different experiences available for male and female characters. Originally published in 1986 for Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Apple II, and Macintosh, this updated edition maintains the original content while featuring an improved interface and bug fixes from the classic pick-a-path gamebook style.

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GenreSimulator Traitcasual Traitcharacter growth Traitgoogle play family library Traitoffline Traitsingle-player only Traitsteam cloud Traitsteam families Traittext-based

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Platform releases

  • PC (Microsoft Windows) Aug 08, 2017
  • Mac Aug 08, 2017
  • Linux Aug 08, 2017

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