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Estimated play time: 12 minutes (based on 1 vote)
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- 12 minutes: "consulted walkthrough a couple times" — HereticMole
About the Story
Gregory Yob's classic labyrinth gets an eco-surrealist makeover. No random generation. No instant-death pits. Just a carefully designed text-based trap, a wagon-elevator throwing you across rooms, and the Wumpus who considers you to be non-recyclable waste. Put your puzzle-solving skills to a test and find your way out!
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Escape the Wumpus
The original Hunt the Wumpus game had you chasing a creature across a dodecahedral map, with a complex web of rooms.
This game doesn't feature the wumpus itself until the very end, where it plays a very minor role in one room. It has a complex map, but I don't think it's a dodecahedron.
Instead, you mainly enter one room at a time and get a list of interesting items in the room (some of which have fun effects not necessary for progression) along with a list of rooms you can go to.
Several rooms have 'collectors' that want items which are found in other rooms, making a fetch quest of sorts. I got stuck on the last one (which is okay, it's okay to get stuck in games) because the room I needed to go to was one I had long avoided.
Overall, the game was interesting. It seems to be a custom engine, and if so it worked great. Like others mentioned, I didn't enjoy the frequent timed text but did enjoy that the author sped it up each time. The game had some connections and story about the Wumpus and the ecosystem; I think even more of that story and more characters or more details about the characters would be fun.
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First Publication Date: September 1, 2026
Current Version: Unknown
Development System: Javascript
IFID: Unknown
TUID: 9sgsgcvh1ov7aoyh
Makes reference to Hunt the Wumpus, by Gregory Yob, Magnus Olsson, and David Ahl
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