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Demon's Tomb: The Awakening

Demon's Tomb: The Awakening is a text adventure set on England on modern times. The game starts with a prologue to the rest of the game, where the player controls the main character's father while he is…

31 December 1989

Demon's Tomb: The Awakening is an adventure, released 31 December 1989 on Amiga and DOS.

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What Demon's Tomb: The Awakening is

Demon's Tomb: The Awakening was released in 1989. It is available on Amiga and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Demon's Tomb: The Awakening is a text adventure set on England on modern times. The game starts with a prologue to the rest of the game, where the player controls the main character's father while he is fighting for his life. After this brief prelude, the story jumps to 16 years-old Richard and his search for his father in Britain's moors. The parser is on par with the one developed by Infocom. It supports chain commands and adverb recognition, and goes beyond by adding support of mouse input and interface customization. These features are enabled on a menu that pops up when right-clicking on the screen. The optional verb menu allows complete sentence construction with the mouse. The…
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How it plays

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

What it launched against

Demon's Tomb: The Awakening launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream and Denaris.

Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream, Denaris.

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When did Demon's Tomb: The Awakening come out?
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening was released on 31 December 1989 for Amiga and DOS.

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