Rank and Play ID: RNP-IGDB-11498

Hunt the Wumpus

Rank and Play

No ratings

Critic rating

40.8 / 100

5 votes

Release

Mar 31, 1973

Genres

Puzzle, Adventure

Overview

Hunt the Wumpus is an early computer game, based on a simple hide and seek format featuring a mysterious monster (the Wumpus) that lurks deep inside a network of rooms. It was originally a text-based game written in BASIC and has since been ported to various programming languages and platforms including graphical versions. The original text-based version of Hunt the Wumpus uses a command line text interface. A player of the game enters commands to move through the rooms or to shoot "crooked arrows" along a tunnel into one of the adjoining rooms. There are twenty rooms, each connecting to three others, arranged like the vertices of a dodecahe…