Legends of Zork Goes Live

TinBromide writes "The developers over at Jolt Online Gaming have released Legends of Zork to the general public. It's a free, browser-based, adventure game based on the world of Zork. You play as a Traveling Salesman, recently laid off from FrobozzCo. You start off in a clearing, where a white house has a boarded up door. From there, you can do what you like. Explore the world, fight other salesmen in PVP, or try out your Darkvision Goggles in the dark — just try not to get eaten by a grue." It's free in that you're given 30 Action Points each day, which are consumed by moving about and fighting. Their business model is that if you want more Action Points, you can purchase more.

Comments

Re:Action Points? Oh no.

[Norsefire]

I think it is more likely to go:

It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

> USE TORCH

You have no more action points. Please enter your credit card details to not die.

Re:great game - doesn't deserve to be called zork

[Red Flayer]

Did you forget your head in your ass?

Why yes, yes I did.

And the worst part of it is that I had to shove my monitor up there too in order to read your post.

Re:Actually seems kinda fun

[flitty]

I think they should have given out 60 action points for free. 30 just isn't enough to even do any sort of exploring. The one dungeon I found was a 19 step dungeon, and there's just something about getting halfway through it and being forced to quit that left a bad taste in my mouth. I know they are trying to entice me to pay for points, but 30 is sort of silly. Unless someone pays for points, nobody will really know if it's good or not for another couple weeks.

Re:Action Points? Oh no.

[AftanGustur]

I went through my daily "25 points" in about 25 minutes or so ..

"Authentic FrobozzCo Bottle o' Berzio" costs 10 Coconuts and gives you 200 "Action points" which you will easily spend in an hour or two ..

If those 200 points are one-time-shot, then this is the most expensive game I have ever seen.