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Return to Zork

Activision · 2017-04-18

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 15, 1993 (DOS), Feb 02, 1996 (Sega Saturn), May 27, 1995 (PC-FX), Sep 27, 1996 (PlayStation), Feb 01, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 15, 1993 (Mac)

Return to Zork: A mesmerizing interactive adventure of danger, intrigue and cunning.

3
playing now
89%
positive of 70 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
66/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Return to Zork is a 1993 adventure game developed by Activision. The game was the last to be published by Infocom for the Zork series, and was the first to use a point-and-click interface, rather than text-based interaction as in previous games. The game followed the release of Zork Zero in 1988.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 72% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 70 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.99-67%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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Census log

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