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IGDB / 60655

The Gostak

2001 Adventure Puzzle

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.

World design Nicht eindeutig GameplayPuzzles

Deep dive / Spielprofil

Everything about The Gostak: story and gameplay

A structured look at the narrative, game feel, and traits that define this game.

Story & context

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.

4 weitere Tags
Traitdeveloped by one person Traitinteractive fiction Traitinvented language Traittext adventure

Game profile / Plain language

The Gostak: release, platforms, and facts

Studio, play style, releases, and official sources — compactly prepared from external IGDB data.

01
Studios & ownership

Studio & publishing

Developer
Carl Muckenhoupt
Publisher
Nicht angegeben
Franchise
Standalone
02
So spielt es sich

Spielprofil

Modi
Single player
Perspective
Text
Themes
Fantasy
03
Wo & wann

Platform releases

  • Mac Oct 2001
  • Web browser Oct 2001
  • PC (Microsoft Windows) Oct 2001
  • Linux Oct 2001

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