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Planetfall

Planetfall is an interactive fiction sci-fie game released in 1983 by Infocom, written by Steve Meretzky. It is often considered one of Infocom's best titles. You play as a low-ranking Ensign Seventh Class in the Stellar Patrol, stuck doing menial janitorial tasks aboard the starship Featherstone. However, after an emergency escape pod launch, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious abandoned planet called Resida. Your main objective is to survive and ultimately discover what happened to the planet's inhabitants.
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Main executable game file: planfall/Planetfa.bat.

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Both the folio edition and the grey box re-release contained the following feelies:

  • "Today's Stellar Patrol" - recruitment brochure
  • a Stellar Patrol "Special Assignment Task Force" I.D. card
  • three postcards (Ramos II, Nebulon, and Accardi-3)
  • a personal diary kept by the player's character

In February 1992, a remake of Planetfall (Puranettoforu) was developed and published by Japanese software development company SystemSoft for the NEC PC-9801, over eight-and-a-half years after the original Planetfall.

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Status: abandonware
Also published for: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64
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  • Chris 23/02/2025 00:40
    Planetfall is the best text game I've ever played. It has a great story line and lots of puzzles. It opens with you on a doomed space ship. If you can get yourself into an escape pod and land safely, you find a planet with much high-tech infrastructure, but, where are the people??? ;That is your quest: to find out what happened to them and maybe, bring them back. An adorable robot named Floyd is a nice touch.
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