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Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands

Zombie Studios · Activision · 2017-04-18

SteamGOG

NudityViolentAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: 1996 (DOS), Mar 02, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 1996 (Mac)

Travel through five mind-bending worlds to discover the ancient secret of Alchemy that will free the trapped souls from evil’s grip…Do you dare enter the Forbidden Lands?

78%
positive of 51 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
79/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.89
steam price (US)
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands is a graphic adventure game, developed by Zombie LLC, published by Activision, and released in 1996 for Windows 95, MS-DOS, and Macintosh. It is the eleventh game in the Zork series, and is the first title not to be marketed under the Infocom label. It is the second Zork game by Activision after Return to Zork (1993).

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 42% of 60 Nudity games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 51 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$5.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.89 at Steam (2024-02-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $2.10 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

FMVHorrorNudityPuzzleClassicSurrealViolentAdventureStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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