The Text Adventures That Never Were, Part 1

The holiday season is the perfect time for family gatherings, the exchanging of gifts, and of course, visitations from grim specters who want to show you chilling visions of harrowing realities. Let that paper-thin premise take you below, where we'll look at three games from 2014 presented in a disturbing reality where PC graphics had never been invented!

It's the text adventures that never were! OoooooOOOOOooooOO!

PRODUCTS

Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.