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Castle of the Red Prince

Castle of the Red Prince is a small text adventure with a different perspective on how locations can work in a parser game.

25 February 2013

Castle of the Red Prince is an adventure developed by C.E.J. Pacian, released 25 February 2013 on PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.

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What Castle of the Red Prince is

Castle of the Red Prince is an adventure game developed by C.E.J. Pacian and released in 2013. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It runs on Inform.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Welcome to Amaranth, foreigner. The Red Prince haunts your dreams, you say? If you want to overthrow our tyrant, you'll need to consider this whole blighted land at once.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Castle of the Red Prince launched on 25 February 2013, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Mass Effect 3: Citadel.

Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Mass Effect 3: Citadel.

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When did Castle of the Red Prince come out?
Castle of the Red Prince was released on 25 February 2013 for PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.

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