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Game dossier

Empire of the Over-Mind

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A text adventure about a traveler confronting the Over-Mind

The briefing

About this game

Empire of the Over-Mind is a text adventure set in the Kingdom of Alcazar, where a powerful golden sphere known as the Over-Mind has seized control through deceit and corruption.

Players take the role of a weary traveler-cum-hero tasked with locating and destroying the Over-Mind. The game includes The Rhyme of the Over-Mind, a 21-verse poem written in an Olde Worlde style.

Game Details

  • Genre: Adventure
  • Platforms: Apple II, Atari 8-bit, TRS-80
  • Developer: Microcomputer Games, Inc.
  • Publisher: The Avalon Hill Game Company
  • Release date: August 8, 1981