Adventure Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I 1

You are an adventurer who has come to explore the Great Underground Empire (GUE), in an attempt to find all its mythical treasures. Vast riches and fame await you in the vast caves, but you might have to best mighty beasts in your attempt to obtain both.


One of the earliest adventures ever made (and direclty inspired by the very first one, Colossal Cave Adventure), Zork took the computer world by storm, selling hundreds of thousands of copies in a time where computers hardly were seen as gaming machines.

One of the groundbreaking features for the time was the ability to feed the parser more complex commands, and stringing sentences together to have the game perform multiple actions with one command. I.e.


The Purchase link on either GOG or Steam lead to the Zork Anthology collection, which includes Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Beyond Zork, Zork Zero and PlanetFall.