Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands
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?
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands is an adventure developed by Zombie Studios, released 29 February 1996 on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands is
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands is an adventure game developed by Zombie Studios and released in 1996. It was published by Activision. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
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).
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 9 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.0 GHz, 256 MB RAM and DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands launched on 29 February 1996, within three weeks of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Pokémon Red Version, Sid Meier's Civilization II and Kirby Super Star. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Pokémon Red Version, Sid Meier's Civilization II, Kirby Super Star.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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