

2001 · Carl Muckenhoupt · Puzzle · Adventure
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.
- Released
- 1 October 2001
- Platforms
- BrowserLinuxmacOSWindows
- Genres
- PuzzleAdventure
- Developers
- Carl Muckenhoupt
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Text
- Themes
- Fantasy
- Engine
- Inform
›Story
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.
Keywords
- interactive fiction
- developed by one person
- text adventure
- invented language
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